you know, pfa: personal freakin' anecdote. Now, mind your own beeswax.

yeah, then why post about it at all? I don't know about you all, but I dont' care THAT much. ;)

Pulled from _ _ _ ... air yeh, thats it air, pulled from air.

Ohhhhh...

Must learn more mnemonics. And no, kiddies, that isn't pronounced 'pneumonics'.

H-H-HAGGIS - I laughed so hard I stuttered!

A long time ago, in a land faraway .. there were Very Few English People on this board ....

A little tavern from long ago and far away and a little town more recently and closer. I wanted something different than my usual nom de plume.

To be fair, you're not over-run now. Undertstand your point though.

Funnily enough, sleepy finger typed it in some olde tongue (cut & pasted)
ti be ffaie, your moe overrin noe

Nice....

BTW - did you see David Mitchell on Who Do You Think You Are?
I always thought Gaelic was pronounced Gay-Lick.
But the scholars went for Gallic (as per French) all the way through. I admit I missed the beginning, but is this a new thing? Like Tutankhamun, Urunas, Boudicca etc?

the non-vanity license plate version of my handle is Pilot Hi-jinx

I must have lost my handle. She left owing her bills. Again.

Can I handle it? I'm like a broken axe. I ain't nothing but handle.

classicman: putting the ass in clicman since 2007

Hi Fred!

to be ffaie ... the (Scots) Gaelic language is referred to as "the Gallic" as far as I know. As to the wider cultural reference, I dunno!

I always read it as pil-thi-jinx. Always wondered what it meant, too.

howdeh!

yeah,a few years back we were having a similar discussion and there were several different spins on it.....(too lazy to look it up, too early and not enough coffee yet!)