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And finally… #14

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

Whoah! We were starting to think SoS had lost its touch. But neigh chance.

snpaccusedhorsemeat

Astonishingly, this really is the mane article on the paper’s front page today. Some hack must have noticed there were no “SNP accused” stories in this week’s edition and made something up on the hoof, in an attempt to give those beastly Nats a shoeing and stirrup a shocking tail out of nothing. What a load of old pony.

It’d give anyone who believes in a balanced Scottish media a really long face.

57 to “And finally… #14”

  1. Marcia says:

    Dearie me. Now I shall canter off to bed.

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  2. Gayle says:

    Think it is fair to say they have finally lost the plot. 

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  3. Holebender says:

    I had a veggie lasagna yesterday and was horrified to find traces of horseradish in it! 😉

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  4. Richie says:

    Typical JP horseshit. They’ve always got something to whinny about. The paper is just a load of fetlocks nowadays. So are my puns.

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  5. Seasick Dave says:

    I hear that Findus have a new dish out.

    Its called Nag Ball.

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  6. Barontorc says:

    SoS is as good as horse dung for the roses if pulped and well dug-in. Best use for it!

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  7. I suppose it was odds on they’d run an “SNP accused” story on it.  They can’t go furlong without one.

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  8. Seasick Dave says:

    The latest news is that they have found traces of human DNA in Australian lamb.

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  9. Macart says:

    Aaaaand award for the best horseing around pun so far goes toooooo………
     
    Dave Beveridge
     
    Hayyythangyou! 😀

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  10. Ysabelle says:

    But do we believe this horseshit SoS article? I say, ‘Neigh!’

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  11. Macart says:

    Its going to be a long night of jockeying for top pun then. 🙂

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  12. Megsmaw says:

    Those horse lasagnes were good. My mane’s never been shinier!

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  13. Clarinda says:

    In yesterday’s news, some Glaswegian fellow in attempting to feed a police horse a “sausage roll” was told that the horse was “vegetarian”. The fellow persisted and became abusive thus ending up in custody.  It was reported yesterday that he was found guilty and sentenced to seven days jail. I wonder what was his first prison meal – Chilli con Cuddy? 

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  14. G. Campbell says:

    I believe it’s called “putting a kilt on a story”.
    Annoyingly, Google Images wouldn’t turn up any pictures of horses (or pies*) wearing a kilt,so this’ll have to do.

    link to wishpony.com

    *first person to find a picture of a pie in a kilt** wins a Findus Beef Lasagne.
    **first person to find a kilt in Findus Beef Lasagne wins a horse pie and the lead story in next week’s Scotland on Sunday

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  15. Chic McGregor says:

    @Clarinda  Was he a Trotskyisk?

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  16. Chic McGregor says:

    @Holebender  After decades of Sheena telling me that prawn crackers did not contain prawns (I have an aversion to eating eating seafood with legs) by reading the small print on packets of said item she bought today I discovered that indeed shellfish was an ingredient.   I am not sure whether I was more angry with that revelation or the fact she took obvious glee in consuming both packets. 
    However, your post made me wonder if perhaps some of my past consumption contained, albeit in ignorance, sea-horses. 🙂

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  17. Chic McGregor says:

    “A survey we carried out yesterday indicates that there have been more puns generated by the ‘horse-burger’ news item that any other in the past.”:  Gallup.

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  18. Cameron says:

    @ Chic McGregor
     
    Was that not a bit shellfish of Shenna? Sorry for going OT.

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  19. Chic McGregor says:

    @Cameron I’m saying nothing, one doesn’t want to make anemone of the better half.

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  20. Cameron says:

    @ Chic McGregor
     
    You should show some muscles man, or would that not suit your porpoise?

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  21. Embradon says:

    To clear stock Findus have reduced the price of their lasagne from 7-1 to 3-1

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  22. DJ says:

    I’m neigheigheigheigh believing this! Ok, done my best.

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  23. Cameron says:

    @ DJ
     
    You’re just trying to stirrup trouble now. Sorry if that one has already be done. We are kind of flogging it to death now.

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  24. DJ says:

    Just read the SoS story online. No Scottish produce has been implicated in the horsemeat scandal, so for purely party political advantage Labour and Libdems have made a story where none existed which can only be to the detriment of the Scottish beef industry.

    These are the people who will be promoting Scotland’s interests in the event of a no vote. Scary!  

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  25. Doug Daniel says:

    I always wondered how and when the media would find something to try and pin on Lochhead, who seems to be the quiet success of the cabinet. I suppose congratulations should go to the SoS for contriving to find something. 

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  26. DJ says:

    Cameron

    Would that be flogging a dead horse? Ok sorry, over and out.  

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  27. Albamac says:

    For Chic and Sheena:

    The Annual Prawn Ball

    The Annual Prawn Ball
    was open to all,
    from the mighty blue whale
    to the smallest sea-snail.
     
    Invitations went out
    to the shark and the trout
    and seating arrangements
    were almost worked out.
     
    Hyped and promoted
    from ocean to sea,
    to every small inlet
    from fjord to zee.
     
    The PR was perfect.
    The planning was sound.
    When the prawns looked for problems,
    not one could be found.
     
    The progamme was ready,
    the parts were all cast
    and the best, as is usual,
    was saved until last.
     
    A bright phosphor light-show,
    a swirling ballet,
    then synchronised swimming
    and free food – hooray!
     
    first came the crowds
    in shimmering clouds,
    then those on the make,
    the haddock, the hake.
     
    The big-shots came later
    and caused quite a buzz,
    some small-fry now thinking
    ‘the menu is us’.
     
    The whales stayed aloof,
    with healthy disdain.
    Their lofty position
    they couldn’t profane.
     
    The sharks went for retro,
    like fifties drive-ins,
    all flashy wide grilles
    and stylish tail fins.
     
    The parade was quite dazzling,
    the audience grew faint
    as bright neon starlets
    led clowns in greasepaint.
     
    At last came the moment,
    awaited by all,
    here comes the Prawn Princess
    and the Queen of the Ball.
     
    The King Prawn was proud
    as a King Prawn could be,
    for one fleeting moment
    King of the Sea.
     
    The chic Queen of Prawns
    couldn’t fail to impress
    in her tiny black shoes
    and her prawn cocktail dress.
     
    Everyone loved her,
    even the skate.
    Not a creature could harm her
    nor wish her ill fate.
     
    But as things tend to do
    when all things seem well
    dark forces had gathered
    in deep ocean swell.
     
    A streamlined invader,
    with deadly, sharp snoot,
    flew through the throng
    not giving a hoot.
     
    With lightning-fast impact
    he speared for his tea
    the King and the Queen
    and the daughter, all three!
     
    He’d gone to the ball
    with the best of intent
    and for most of the show
    he was quiet, content.
     
    He’d witnessed it all
    in a state of near bliss,
    but the tasty prawn sandwich
    was too good to miss.

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  28. Richie says:

    Rev Stu.
    You will always reign king of the puns. How do you know them all? You Mustang out with all the right people. For that reason, I will stick by you, any pal of yours is a palomino!

     
     
     

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  29. Richie says:

    OK, a bottle too many but when did horsemeat turn into seafood?
     
     

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  30. Richie says:

    Jesus?!
     

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  31. creag an tuirc says:

    You guys, with all your puns, are just a bunch of grand nationalists

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  32. Richie says:

    FFS Creag an Tuirc. You boar the rocks off me!
     

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  33. Albamac says:

    @Richie
    “OK, a bottle too many but when did horsemeat turn into seafood?”
    “Jesus?!”
    Salmon on the mount?

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  34. Cameron says:

     
    Withers or not you are religious, that was surely in bad taste (taste bad). I suppose we will be saddled with these jokes until the Rev. chooses to rein us in.
     
    That’s enough, ehm oot.

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  35. How long before Shergar’s DNA turns up proving him to be the best long distance runner ever.   Now someone should get the bit between their teeth and geld SOS without anaesthetic. I’ll saddle up now  and 
     
    link to youtube.com
     

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  36. Neil says:

    Mince.

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  37. Jeannie says:

    Don’t think I can take much mare of these stories.

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  38. ScotFree1320 says:

    SoS are a bunch of cowboys trying to take us all for a ride.

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  39. JLT says:

    On a totally different issue, I see Cameron has spoken out (or an attempt anyway) in defence of the Union. One key line should be jumped on (and it does make you wonder)
     
    “I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone,” he said.
     
    Interesting to the point that it ends all nonsense about how we are ‘too wee, too stupid, too poor’. If the PM can see that. It’s a line that we should be casting up at every turn to the media, when they start their nonsense. The other point is …once again, is Cameron doing reverse-thinking here, and telling us to go for it????

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  40. Mosstrooper says:

    I think it’s time for pastures new; After all as the fern said to the flower bed “with fronds like these who needs anemones” Now , now,  don’t cast nasturtiums about my jokes. I get them cheep from a chicken,  two bob a pun.
     

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  41. ianbrotherhood says:

    Knock knock…
    Who’s there?
    Maybe it’s a big horse.
    Maybe it’s a big horse who?
    Maybe it’s a big horse I’m a Londoner…

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  42. Baheid says:

    Was discussed earlier this morning on Derek Bateman (Radio Scot) even guest suggested SOS ‘seem to be losing the plot over the independence question’.
    The whole prog is worth a listen. 

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  43. Appleby says:

    How do these arseholes even look at themselves in the mirror after this constant dishonesty, smearing, lies and propaganda? Don’t they feel as dirty and pathetic as they look?

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  44. H Scott says:

    Who wrote the article? Don Quixote?

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  45. Davy says:

    I heard this on the radio yesterday:
    roses are red,
    voliets are blue,
    I would rather be in a burgger,
    than melted for glue.
     
    Tinhat on, ducking for cover.
     

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  46. the rough bounds says:

    Too many horse’s hoofs at SOS. They just aren’t stable.

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  47. Chic McGregor says:

    @Albamac
    Bravo! That’s a keeper.

    Carrol could ne’r have bettered
    The fiendish plot in use
    In the meter oft employed by
    The good old Dr Seuss.
     

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  48. Ananurhing says:

    I always thought the wife’s Ballymany Surprise tasted a bit too livery! It’s a stable in our freezer.
    Never mind. Romanian Trot Pot tonight!

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  49. Albamac says:

    @Chic McGregor
    Thanks, Chic!  Embedded in my psyche by years of reading to our kids – performance poetry.

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  50. Midgehunter says:

    All these puns have been made off the hoof …!

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  51. Frank Garden says:

    I must admit I have fallen asleep on the Saddle a couple of times as I get older.  Lookes like  I will have to cut down on the Malt Whisky.  My old Filly’s  neigh bothered too much.

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  52. Ananurhing says:

    For when you’re really hungry, our local bistro does an as much as you can eat,
    Cheval En Crouteux.
     
    ( Crouteux= Scabby!)

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  53. MajorBloodnok says:

    I’ve heard Findus are doing sea-horse pies now, although as a “new-marketing” idea I think it will fall at the first hurdle.

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  54. Chic McGregor says:

    @Richie
    “OK, a bottle too many but when did horsemeat turn into seafood?”
     
    Mea culpa. twas me wot done the ‘seahorse segway’.

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  55. silver19 says:

    What’s the bets that Labour’s script writers will be busy scribbling rubbish about this story to blame Richard Lochhead for FMQ’s. IMHO Richard Lochhead is doing a good job with limited powers and funds he has and I am sure most of Scotland’s producers, farmers probably think so as well. If it’s not this story for FMQ’s by Lamentable one it might be bedroom tax rubbish that Labour are blaming the SNP for building council houses with bed rooms to big.

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  56. Alan Gerrish says:

    The serious point here is that no Scottish processed food producers have been involved  with any suggestion of horsemeat contamination of their products.  Don’t ever buy SoS but where’s the link to “being asleep on the job”?
    Btw, had an interesting conversation with several young Scottish farmers recently, and the consensus of opinion regarding the referendum was that if the question was based on the performance of Richard Lochhead and the SNP in relatio to farming, the result would be 100% YES.
    The downside of the conversation was that almost everyone hadn’t a scoobie about the wider economical issues, and were reluctant to commit on that basis. Plenty of work still to do – does anyone in the YES camp think about approaching groups like the SNFU I wonder?

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  57. Morag says:

    I had a conversation with a colleague at the end of last week about progress to date on the Scottish government’s ongoing programme to eradicate the BVD virus from Scottish cattle and Scotland.  He described his own practice’s efforts to encourage the initiative among its own clients, and I remarked that if all large farm practices took a similar approach it would soon be done and dusted.
     
    He said, “Aye, there’ll be nothing left for us to do but stand at the border and point and laugh.”  This being a reference to the fact the England refuses to undertake a similar eradication programme and is rapidly turning into a bovine pest-house.
     
    I remarked that devolution had been invaluable, because without it we would have been unable to do anything about this (and other animal health issues like sheep scab), and to be honest it wasn’t something I had anticipated when I voted Yes in 1997.  He concurred.
     
    I then went on to say that while I wasn’t supposed to be political with my agriculture students, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying to my class, “look, just vote yes next year or we’re all screwed.”  My colleague agreed enthusiastically.
     
    I hope there are more conversations like this going on across the industry.

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