WHA’S LIKE US
DAMN FEW AND THEY’RE & DEID
The average Englishman in the home he calls his castle
slips into his natural costume.
A shabby raincoat, patented by chemist Charles
Macintosh from Glasgow, Scotland.
In route to his office he strides along the English lane,
surfaced by John McAdam of Ayr, Scotland.
He drives an English car filted 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 TV an invention of John Logie
Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland and hears an item about the US. 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 English man turn to escape the ingenuity
of the scots.
He could take the 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 Alexander Fleming of
Darvel, Scotland. And given an anaesthetic, discovered by Sir James Young
Simpson of Bathgate, Scotland.
Out of 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 only remaining hope would be to get would entitle
him to ask…………….. “ WHA’S LIKE US”
