Scots for Dummies

As a kid I liked the book 'The Twits', so I was impressed when I recently stumbled across 'The Eejits', which is 'The Twits' translated into Scots.

As it says on the publisher's site, more or less, it's the same Roald Dahl story about the world's most revolting couple - Mr Twit was horrible and hairy and his wife Mrs Twit was just plain ugly, in The Eejits they are honkin, mawkit, bowfin and clarty and Mrs Eejit's hackitness is revealed in all its manky glory.

What a great idea. I wander if it ever went under the working title 'The Numpties'. Wouldn't it be great if other publishers took it upon themselves to branch into the Scots domain?

As it happens, now we can almost bring this into reality:



Alright, so this website allows you to mock up a would be 'for Dummies' book cover, and this may turn into a kind of caption competition for anyone that can be humped, but it made me chuckle. Even this mob will host your generated images for nowt.

I may have made a rookie mistake of assuming that people are familiar with the 'for Dummies' book series, which is maybe something I should keep quiet about, as it's not so much going over folks heads as under, though we are talking about books here.

This has also been the longest setup, without a punchline right enough, since I spent a few years of my life in the '90s pretending to study Electrical and Electronic Engineering, with the sole purpose of answering the lecturer's question 'What is a transformer?'.

This is my first post since leaving Japan. I'm really busy training to become a teacher just now and shouldn't be mucking around with this. I get a few weeks break at Christmas when I hope to upload our last pictures of Japan, some since (which should be interesting), some writing about goings on and a formal closing ceremony on the blog, Japanese style.

Until December!