With both of us being from a place called Scotland, I have always been a kind-of-fan of Robert Burns. I say kind-of because most of what I can recall about him is having to suffer thru a couple of English Lit lectures with the instructor trying to decipher his stuff for us. Therefore, I tended to lump him into the “If-you-got-to-explain-it-to-me-category then……….”
But today is the anniversary of Rabbie’s birthday so we canna tip one for the ol’ boy (click here.)
He was a little bit of a rolling stone with the ladies in that he knocked up his family’s maid before siring twins with another woman and then beat feet to Jamacia with another lady. It is reported that he had 13 known children and 5 of them were born out of wedlock.
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| From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns |
But back to his poetry and songs which some say he only wrote so he could pickup women, I hear you saying that you can’t name one of his works. Sure you can. Every New Year’s Eve (click here.) Yes, we got him to blame, ok since it’s his birthday, thank for that.