WHA'S LIKE US
DAMN FEW AND THEY'RE A' DEID
The average Englishman in the 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 Macadam of Ayr,
Scotland.
He drives an English car fitted with tyres
invented by John Boyd Dunlop of Dreghorn,Scotland.
At the office he receives the mail bearing
adhesive stamps invented by James Chalmers of
Dundee, Scotland.
During the day he uses the telephone invented by
Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
At home in the evening, his daughter pedals her
bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, blacksmith
of Dumfries, Scotland.
He watches the news on a T.V., 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.
He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland
and in desperation he picks up the Bible, only to
find that the first man mentioned in the good book
is a Scot-King James VI- who authorised its
translation.
Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the
ingenuity of the Scots.
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 scaped death, he could find himself on an
operating table injected with penicilin, discovered
by Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland and given
an anaesthetic, discovered by Sir James Young
Simpson of Bathgate, Scotland.
Out of the anaesthetic he would find no comfort in
learning that he was as safe as the Bank of England,
founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.
Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get
a transfusion of guid Scottish blood which
would entitle him to ask-
"WHA'S LIKE US"
Original article:
Brief history of Scotland
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