Re: For the attention of anybody Scottish...

"Walt Davidson" <g3nyy@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 02:31:12 +0100, "Chaney" <chaney@i12.com> wrote:
>
>>"Len GM0ONX" <gm0onx@goooooglemail.com> wrote in message
>>news:h2gtrb$b65$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>> Chaney's Laptop wrote:
>>>> The scene is a Glasgow court and a witness (a ned) is being questioned
>>>> by
>>>> a rather plummy mouthed Advocate Depute (AD).
>>>>
>>>> AD: "You say you went to your friend's house that night. Why did
you go
>>>> there?"
>>>>
>>>> WITNESS: "Tae get a tap."
>>>>
>>>> AD: "Is your friend a plumber?"
>>>>
>>>> WITNESS: "Naw."
>>>>
>>>> AD: "Are you a plumber?"
>>>>
>>>> WITNESS: "Naw."
>>>>
>>>> The witness is a bit bewildered by this line of questioning and the AD
>>>> realises it, but notices that the court police officer is rubbing his
>>>> fingers of one hand together in the universal gesture of money.
>>>> Daylight
>>>> apparently dawns on the AD and he changes his line of questioning
>>>> accordingly.
>>>>
>>>> AD: "So you went to the house to borrow money?"
>>>>
>>>> WITNESS: "Naw."
>>>>
>>>> AD: "Ah. You went to the house to lend money?"
>>>>
>>>> WITNESS: "Naw."
>>>>
>>>> In exasperation the AD says, "You told the court you went to your
>>>> friend's house for a tap. What kind of a tap was it?"
>>>>
>>>> WITNESS: ".......................A Sellick tap."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Don't give up the day job! :-)
>>>
>>
>>I had to have the girlfriend explain it to me...
>
> I don't get it.
> :-(
>
> 73 de Wlat
>
A jazz drummer !!! ....
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