I’m sure some people here will find this interesting or useful:
Also, this is rather funny (in my opinion):
http://www.astbury.org/humour/gwin98.htm
http://www.rampantscotland.com/know/blknow_index.htm
http://www.britainusa.com/faq/showfaqcat.asp?SCategory=279
http://www.firstfoot.com/php/glossary/phpglossar_0.8/index.php?letter=a
http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_index.htm
Unfortunately when checking my ancestry I have been unable to discover any Scots links. Are there any Scots out there who would be willing to adopt me? 
(Nae Campbells need apply)
:: f**ks aboot wi the settins::
Sure jbarter. My brother considers himself to be of sufficiently Scot descent that he speaks Gaelic and named his children Ethnie, Carbry and Drostane.(middle names in the 2nd two cases.)
I have to explain my olive undertones by assuming I’m somehow less Scottish than him…or somewhere along the line our Pictish forbears fooled around with some Mediterranean types. I dunno.
Thanks for the adoption Emm. Now, what tartan should we be wearing Mom? 
Why not? 
Because I like going round to my mate Patrick’s house and he sticks firmly to the MacDonald saying “I’ll have nae Campbells in ma hoose”.
For further details do a quick Google search on Glencoe and massacre.
Die.
Now.
Cruachan!
In a nutshell, this was kinda the Abu Ghraib of the 18th century. AFAIK, the question of where to lay the blame is still debated. But certainly the entire clan isn’t at fault.
If you had to live on Campbell’s soup OR Mickie D’s fast food, which would it be???
That would be MacPherson. It’s really not all that attractive.
BTW, didn’t McD’s serve Campbell’s soup for a while there?
Come to think of it, I’m sure I once heard Pat play ‘Wichita Lineman’ on the whistle. 
I hope you pointed out the problem! Apart from the problem of making those twangs sound good on whistle.
two old campbells chatting away with each other.
‘och jimmy, ah’ve got such a terrible stomach-ache, ah canae even move nae more!’
‘serves ye richt tae eat a macdonald’s hamburger, jamie campbell!!’
That would be MacPherson. It’s really not all that attractive.
MacPherson’s Rant (or Lament or Farewell)
(Trad)
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
Sae dauntingly gaed he
He played a tune and he danced it aroon’
Alow the gallows tree
Fareweel, ye dungeons dark and strang
Fareweel, fareweel, said he
MacPherson’s time will no’ be lang
Alow the gallows tree
It was by a woman’s treacherous hand
That I was condemned tae dee
Aboon a ledge at a windae she stood
And a blanket she threw o’er me
Untie these bands frae aff o’ my hands
And gie tae me my sword
There’s no a man in a’ Scotland
But I’ll brave him at his word
There’s some come here tae see me hang
And some tae buy my fiddle
But afore that I dae part wi’ her
I’d brak’ her through the middle
He took his fiddle into both of his hands
And he brak’ it o’er a stone
Said, Nae ither hands shall play on thee
When I am deid and gane
Ach, little did my mother think
When first she cradled me
That I would turn a roving boy
And die on the gallows tree
The reprieve it was coming o’er the Brig o’ Banff
Tae set MacPherson free
But they put the knock tae a quarter past four
And they hanged him tae the tree
Anyone know anything about the history or connections of the McMurdie family? That’s my wife’s mother’s family, but we’ve not run into much info about them.
Don’t mean to hijack the thread here–PM replies welcome.
This website has some interesting things. The section called “The Soound o Scots” has recordings of things (jokes, proverbs, poems) in Scots to listen too. The translations into English are very pleasing to the ear as well.
Cranberry, that first website is really interesting. The second one was funny, too.
Is everybody here a Campbell? I’m not but one of my friends (who is Vietnamese, not Scottish) is.
I might be.
How is the above possible?
I don’t know. Vietnam was colonized by France for a long time, so it probably has something to do with that. There are French Campbells.