Happy Burns day from Canada

[Andrew M. Stewart]

Vancouver's "The Real McKenzies"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW_D0Eblg24

[Lallans]

I second that emotion! In this age of $1000 kilts and such, we should all pause in grateful memory of the man who, as some would have it, so loved his poetic art that he chose to die from it... of hunger, slowly. At least that's the legend I was raised on. So, a dram to your eternal glory Mr Robert Burns!

"What though on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin grey, an’ a that;
Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine;
A Man’s a Man for a’ that:
For a’ that, and a’ that,
Their tinsel show, an’ a’ that;
The honest man, tho’ e’er sae poor,
Is king o’ men for a’ that. "