Has Nigel Lawson lost it?

[ahinton]

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[amateur51]

I don't think that's scotty - the tone is all wrong.

Message #28 sounds/reads pretty echt-scotty to me

[ahinton]

Message #28 sounds/reads pretty echt-scotty to me

A broad, brecht, moonlecht necht tonecht, as in?...

[amateur51]

A broad, brecht, moonlecht necht tonecht, as in?...

Wi' knobs on!

[P. G. Tipps]

Amateur51's connection with 'echt' and 'scotty' is. I can only surmise, some sort of obscure reference to a tiny village in Aberdeenshire?

What this particular village has to do with either the ex-Chancellor and/or climate change I haven't the foggiest idea.

[amateur51]

Amateur51's connection with 'echt' and 'scotty' is. I can only surmise, some sort of obscure reference to a tiny village in Aberdeenshire?

What this particular village has to do with either the ex-Chancellor and/or climate change I haven't the foggiest idea.

Classic scotty.

Has anyone else noticed how the Dungeon has become more off-topic since the arrival of PGT?

All we need now is the return of the incontinent one and a few others and a certain person's cup will flow over.

[P. G. Tipps]

Classic scotty.

Has anyone else noticed how the Dungeon has become more off-topic since the arrival of PGT?

All we need now is the return of the incontinent one and a few others and a certain person's cup will flow over.

Now we are referring not only to this wretched 'Scotty' (whom I've figured out must live in that obscure Aberdeenshire village?) but 'dungeon's', 'incontinent one's' and 'a certain person'.

I didn't realise poor Mr Lawson had such an unfortunate life and that his views on climate change had such a creepy and mysterious background?

Just goes to show we simply don't know the half of what's really going on ...

[MrGongGong]

All we need now is the return of the incontinent one and a few others and a certain person's cup will flow over.

;-) :laugh: :and so on:

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Now we are referring not only to this wretched 'Scotty'

I think this is a suggestion that you might be Scottycelt, a previous member of the Forum, under a new name.

[P. G. Tipps]

I think this is a suggestion that you might be Scottycelt, a previous member of the Forum, under a new name.

Yes, I had sort of gathered that might be the case, though I note there are also those who have strongly suggested quite the opposite, and do remember that for some members it is ever the Silly Season, Eine Alpensinfonie ...

[Flosshilde]

I don't think that's scotty - the tone is all wrong.

The tone seems fairly spot-on to me. However, the two linguistic elements I highlighted seemed pretty conclusive - the reference to a secular 'devil's advocate' - I don't think that anyone not versed in Catholic practices would make that distinction (of course, there are no doubt many other Catholic members of the Forum, but I can only think of Scotty who made a point of it); and the expression 'your goodself' - I don't think anyone except Scotty on the forum used it, especially in that form, rather than 'good self'. There are other suggestions, too - PGTipps claims to be Scottish (as did Scotty), now resident in England (as was Scotty), making (or having made) frequent visits to Glasgow (something Scotty used to mention), for example.

Scotty also lived/s in Manchester, as probably does PGTipps (something he denies, yet is strongly suggested in this post -

Ignoring the seemingly never-ending tiresome puerility from the usual suspect, I can only say that I generally pay less (sometimes considerably) for a return ticket between Glasgow and Manchester and Manchester and London than I did 10/15 years ago.

& he also, going by his recommendation, reads the Telegraph, which was also Scotty's favourite paper.

[P. G. Tipps]

The tone seems fairly spot-on to me. However, the two linguistic elements I highlighted seemed pretty conclusive - the reference to a secular 'devil's advocate' - I don't think that anyone not versed in Catholic practices would make that distinction (of course, there are no doubt many other Catholic members of the Forum, but I can only think of Scotty who made a point of it); and the expression 'your goodself' - I don't think anyone except Scotty on the forum used it, especially in that form, rather than 'good self'. There are other suggestions, too - PGTipps claims to be Scottish (as did Scotty), now resident in England (as was Scotty), making (or having made) frequent visits to Glasgow (something Scotty used to mention), for example..

Well, I certainly wouldn't dare to speak for the said departed member, but I thought everyone, whether Catholic or not, would be well aware of the purely religious origin of 'Devil's Advocate', the very term I think used by Flosshilde him/herself (#16) though I certainly wouldn't want to be accused by Amateur51 of digging around looking for facts when fiction appears to be the favoured option. However, if the word 'secular' has caused any offence in relation to this religious term I'll gladly withdraw it immediately!

Scotty also lived/s in Manchester, as probably does PGTipps (something he denies, yet is strongly suggested in this post -



& he also, going by his recommendation, reads the Telegraph, which was also Scotty's favourite paper.

Well I confess I did once live in Stretford, Manchester in 1973 for a few months and have also lived in Glasgow, Newcastle, Birmingham, Leeds & Maidenhead in the UK. I didn't find anything particularly "wrong" with living in Manchester in fact I enjoyed that period thoroughly. Obviously unlike 'Scotty' I haven't bought a newspaper for years ... what's the point of a blatant propaganda-sheet when one has a computer to get at the facts and TV/Radio? ... though I did recently admit on another thread that I occasionally pick up a free Daily Mail in Waitrose 'for a belly-laugh'. I'm surprised Flosshilde's intensive and conclusive forum research appears to have missed such a vitally-important revelation.

Also I mentioned some regular travelling between London, Manchester and Glasgow when discussing the WCML on one particular thread about railways. I didn't realise for one second that this and the use of such a gentle and respectful word as 'goodself' would now become the subject of some great controversy?

Ah well, it is a Saturday night, when all is said and done!

[jean]

Let's have another Gay Marriage thread. That should clarify things.

[amateur51]

Let's have another Gay Marriage thread. That should clarify things.

As ever, hitting the spot jean!

[P. G. Tipps]

Let's have another Gay Marriage thread. That should clarify things.

By all means, jean, if you really feel the dire necessity to start yet another tiresome thread on the subject, though that has always appeared to be the main role and prerogative of one of our more ubiquitous members, and here we are supposed to be talking about Nigel Lawson and a subject quite unconnected.

As ever, hitting the spot jean!

Ah, goodness me, right on cue ... and, as ever, right on topic!