Hey! I got my avatar working! C-o-o-l

Andrew: Of course I remember you. 1st time we met - Joe McDonald was playing bagpipes.

CajunScots: Great to meet another Todd - a name supposedly Old English for "Fox" - just as well that the first tartan I ever wore was the Fraser of Lovat - after the "Old Fox"... and the only claymore that my hands have ever touched, was the one donated by Lord Lovat in 1967 to Simon Fraser University.

It was a Robbie Burns Day celebration in 1993, for which they had trouble finding people to wear the kilt, and carry the haggis. I gave in, gave it some thought - then created the name "Toddish McWong" and the greeting of "Gung Haggis Fat Choy." Which has now spun off 8 annual banquets, a CBC tv special, a poetry night, and soon to be a children's book.

Oh, and for January 28 - expect the inaugural Gung Haggis Fat Choy Highland Games at Simon Fraser University... Just try to imagine what we are going to concoct as a blend of cultures...

CajunScots: Invite some friends over to your house, order in some Chinese food, read your Burns Poems, sing a version of "When Asian Eyes are Smiling" and "My Chow Mein Lies Over the Ocean" - then raise a dram of scotch and shout out "Gung Haggis Fat Choy!"

then just maybe... I will send you a tape of the CBC tv special that features local bands "The Paper Boys", "Silk Road Music", "George Sampanopoudis with Vancouver Dance Academy", and "Brave Waves" with dancers from "Tartan Pride".