After spending $250,000, Scotland's new slogan is ...

How about:

Scotland: Take a look up our kilts.

 

Scotland: Underwear?

 

If it's nay rainin, it's nay gawf...

 

Scotland: We gave you the Bay City Rollers. How 'bout you give us a Friggin' break?

 

Aye! May, turn off the Bay City Rollers!

 

And in today's news, Scots to Donald Trump: fuck you.

EDINBURGH, Scotland–A Scottish council yesterday rejected a plan by Donald Trump to build a golf course on a stretch of remote and stunning coastline that is home to some of the country's rarest birds.

"Mr. Trump is shocked, extremely disappointed and dismayed at this decision," said George Sorial, managing director of Trump International Golf Resorts. "This is certainly not something we expected.''

After a heated debate lasting 2 1/2 hours, Aberdeenshire Council's Infrastructure Committee rejected plans for the Trump International Golf Links after a tie-breaking vote from the committee chair. The initial vote was 7-7.

Opponents of the development said sand dunes at the Menie Estate, 25 kilometres north of Aberdeen, should be protected as the habitat of rare birds such as lapwings, redshanks and skylarks.

A week ago, Trump and his organization were jubilant when the council's Formartine area committee approved the golf course in a 7-4 vote. But yesterday's vote takes precedence over the earlier decision.

Sorial, who attended the Infrastructure Committee meeting, said: ``On a personal basis the Menie project has been of great importance to Mr. Trump. I have just spoken to him and he cannot believe this.

"The council failed to take into account the wishes of the people, and ultimately they are the losers here.''

He said Trump was now looking at an alternative site in other European countries, including Ireland, but did not rule out appealing yesterday's vote to ministers in Scotland's government.

The vote is the latest setback in Trump's four-year odyssey to turn the stretch of sand dunes into a $2.1 billion (all figures U.S.) golf resort complete with two 18-hole courses, a luxurious 450-bedroom hotel, 950 vacation homes, 36 golf villas and 500 upscale homes costing from $827,000 to more than $2.1 million each.

 

If only.

 

One of the most underrated movies of the 90s.

 

"C'mon, get in my belly"

 

“I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.”

 

The Proclaimers - Throw The 'R' Away

I've been so sad
Since you said my accent was bad
He's wearin' a frown
This Caledonian clown

I'm just going to have to learn to hesitate
To make sure my words
On your Saxon ears don't grate
But I wouldn't know a single word to say
If I flattened all the vowels
And threw the 'R' away

Some days I stand
On your green and pleasant land
How dare I show face
When my diction is such a disgrace

I'm just going to have to learn to hesitate
To make sure my words
On your Saxon ears don't grate...

You say that if I want to get ahead
The language I use should be left for dead
It doesn't please your ear
And though you tell it like a leg-pull
It seems you're still full of John Bull
You just refuse to hear

Oh what can I do
To be understood by you
Perhaps for some money
I could talk like a bee dripping honey.

I'm just going to have to learn to hesitate
To make sure my words
On your Saxon ears don't grate...

You say that if I want to get ahead
The language I use should be left for dead
It doesn't please your ear
And though you tell it like a leg-pull
I think you're still full of John Bull
You just refuse to hear

He's been so sad
Since you said his accent was bad
He's wearin' a frown
This Caledonian clown

I'm just going to have to learn to hesitate
To make sure my words
On your Saxon ears don't grate
But I wouldn't know a single word to say
If I flattened all the vowels
And threw the 'R' away
Flattened all the vowels
And threw the 'R' away
If I flattened all the vowels
And threw the 'R' away

 

If my old man, who came from the mean streest of Glasgow (or Glesge, as he pronounced it) was still alive, he'd no doubt arguie that the slogan should be "Get tae fuck, ya fucking numpty heed!" since that's all he ever seemed to say to me.