tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post2235191729625905710..comments2023-10-03T11:41:21.191+01:00Comments on The Truth About Lies: Aggie and Shuggie 29Jim Murdochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-86434155788764577952010-11-10T18:02:46.643+00:002010-11-10T18:02:46.643+00:00Interesting to have the shoe on the other foot the...Interesting to have the shoe on the other foot there, <b>Gwilym</b>.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-44963354038200852032010-11-10T13:40:54.936+00:002010-11-10T13:40:54.936+00:00Jim, that reminds me...
... there's my unrea...Jim, that reminds me...<br /><br />... there's my unread Welsh, yes it's the 'glue'. Yes, it's high time I did, yes I really must. I know. I know. I know. <br /><br />Pluck ep yer kooreej mon! Git in theire. And so I will. It'll drive crazy. <br /> But it starts so harmlessly, The sun rose up from behind the concrete of the block...Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-31098304447257223442010-11-07T17:37:21.910+00:002010-11-07T17:37:21.910+00:00I imagine that I would have much the same problem,...I imagine that I would have much the same problem, <b>Marina</b>, if you did a little dialogue in your local lingo. The thing about Aggie and Shuggie is that they're nowhere near as caricatured as you might imagine.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-66647301285983689952010-11-07T12:28:58.428+00:002010-11-07T12:28:58.428+00:00Really cool post, I like the way they talk and the...Really cool post, I like the way they talk and the way they are written the words. How it depicts the strange (for us) things that happen to them and their thoughts in their own world.Mariana Sofferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13351209522681966230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-16527355515411176102010-11-06T09:59:00.796+00:002010-11-06T09:59:00.796+00:00I would be happy to provide more, Conda. All I nee...I would be happy to provide more, <b>Conda</b>. All I need is another review. I know of two at least that are due but I’m completely in their hands. <br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-57795033390565917122010-11-06T01:05:01.727+00:002010-11-06T01:05:01.727+00:00Jim, unless I'm going mad, I don't see a c...Jim, unless I'm going mad, I don't see a comment by you!Marion McCreadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657757253873577465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-17214163346278855292010-11-05T19:08:31.535+00:002010-11-05T19:08:31.535+00:00Aggie and Shuggie talk in my head when I read thes...Aggie and Shuggie talk in my head when I read these posts, Jim--and I keep hearing my grandmother say, "You savvy me?"!<br /><br />Fun. More.Conda Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12972790965426924941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-91851680938663874292010-11-05T13:16:19.102+00:002010-11-05T13:16:19.102+00:00Glad you appreciated it, Marion. And I finally man...Glad you appreciated it, <b>Marion</b>. And I <i>finally</i> managed to get that comment up on your site. Don’t know what was happening there.<br /><br /><b>Dick</b>, as you know my wife proofreads all my posts and so if she thinks my Aggie and Shuggies are too impenetrable she does soften them a bit. She did wonder what “gi’in it laldy” meant in English but it doesn’t translate neatly. It basically means to sing or do proudly; with great gusto. I suppose it might be a contraction of ‘loudly’ but there’s a fervour that goes with that – ‘giving it loudly’ doesn’t really cut it. ‘Laldy’ can also mean an alcoholic beverage as in, ‘Three pints of laldy please John,’ and I can only assume that it’s come to mean that because of how Scots act when they’re ‘fu o bevvy’ [inebriated]. <br /><br />The basic story here is that, following on from the last one, in an attempt to lose his voice so he has an excuse not to go to marriage counselling with his wife, Shuggie’s agreed to Oggie’s plan that he sing karaoke power ballads until he’s hoarse. In doing so Shuggie gets so drunk that he forgets where he is and urinates on one of the speakers; in doing so he somehow manages to electrocute himself and ends up in hospital. Maggie’s boyfriend, Duggie, hears that her dad has been hospitalised and calls, bringing a bottle of Irn Bru (Scotland’s other national drink) and a printout of a review of my book. When he hears where Shuggie has been shocked he wonders if he’ll have to undergo a ‘williectomy’. (Seriously, do I need to translate?) Maggie doesn’t know but accepts the printout. She doesn’t want to take the bottle in case her mum thumps her dad with it. Just then the taxi arrives and her mum says she’ll be down as soon as she finds her [high] heels; she will not be weaponless. Trust that helps.<br /><br />And, <b>Dave</b>, glad you managed to wade your way through it. Where the hell to go next? We will just have to wait and see.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-43066885264257593752010-11-05T12:16:50.744+00:002010-11-05T12:16:50.744+00:00That's got to be the b est yet! Wonderful.That's got to be the b est yet! Wonderful.Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-26057571768054735072010-11-05T10:53:54.979+00:002010-11-05T10:53:54.979+00:00Almost as entertaining as this further episode of ...Almost as entertaining as this further episode of A & S (with its incursions from the Real World this time) is the reading of it. The impenetrabilities of Scottish dialect have posed an impossible challenge this time!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-35397263984105979782010-11-04T21:22:37.274+00:002010-11-04T21:22:37.274+00:00Haha, how great it is to get a mention in Aggie an...Haha, how great it is to get a mention in Aggie and Shuggie, and such a er...interesting episode too!!Marion McCreadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657757253873577465noreply@blogger.com