I went to a pre-New Year's Party last night. It was alot of fun and I saw friends, neighbors, and colleagues alike. It was nice catching up.
However, toward the end of the evening our hostess' partner comes in with a set of bagpipes, and proceeds to hand out sheet music for all the attending guests to sing from.
http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/comments/pipemusic/
He then goes to play all five . . . 5!!! . . . choruses of Let Old Acquaintence Be Forgot and follows with an encore of Amazing Grace. The bagpipes drowned out the singing, but not the childrens' wailing.
I've now come to the conclusion that the English conquest of Scotland was their way of saying, "Will you please stop with the fucking bagpipes already!!!"
