Congratulations Gerscaff, Wha's like us? Damn few.
The average Englishman in his home he calls his castle, slips into his national costume, a shabby raincoat patented by chemist Charles Macintosh from Glasgow Scotland.
En-route to his office he strides along the english lane ,surfaced by John Macadem of Ayr, Scotland.
He drives an english car fitted withtyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop, veternery surgeon of Dreghorn, Scotland.
At the office he receives the mailbearing adhesive stamps invented by John Chalmars, bookseller and printer from Dundee Scotland
During the day he uses the telephone invented Alexander Graham Bell, born in Endinburgh Scotland.
At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicyle invented by Kirkpatrick MacMillan, Blacksmith of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
He watches the news on television, an invention of John Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland, and hears an item about the U.S Navy, Founded by John paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland.
Nowhere can an Englishman trun to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.
He has now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperatuion he picks up the bible, only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a scot, Ki9ng James VI, who authorised its translation.
He could take to drink, but the Scots make the best in the world.
He could take a rifle and end it all, but the breech-loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland.
If he escaped death, he could find himself on an operating table injected with penicillin, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland, and given chloroform, an anesthetic discovered by Sir James Young Simpson, obstetrician and gynecologist of Bathgate, Scotland.
Out of the anesthetic he would find no comfort in learning that he was as safe as the Bank of England founded by William Patterson of Dumfries, Scotland.
Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him tae ask
"Wha's like us? Damn few an' there a' deed"
Brilliant Eh?
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