There was a little snippet on NPR yesterday afternoon about this Gordon Brown chap likely succeeding Tony Blair and they commented on references to Mr. Brown as a "dour Scotsman". Apparently, they wondered if any other nationalities were refered to as "dour" as much as the Scots, so they did the most logical thing...they Googled it.

Apparenty there ARE other groups that are occaisionally refered to as "dour" but they were all totally wiped out by the Scots.

Google "dour Scots" and you get something like 200,000 hits.

So I want everybody up tomorrow morning - klted of course - looking into that bathroom mirror and practising looking "dour"...it seems that it's as much a part of the look as the sporran is.

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AA