Would you use a net or a lure?

[pbray]

Buried in this BBC News article lamenting the banning of traditional haggis in the US is this money quote:

A 2003 survey suggested that a third of US visitors to Scotland believed the haggis was an animal. Nearly a quarter thought they could catch one.

I can see it now--Catching the Haggis, the newest event in the Highland Games. :-D

Comments

[ladysmith.livejournal.com]

If you eat haggis while doing competitive dance, you're going to hurl all right....

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much what I was thinking, yeah ;) I have done both things (although ceilidh dancing, not the Highland Fling kind), but fortunately not simultaneously...

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't want to be in the front rows of the audience for that event....

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Indeed (http://www.spike.com/video-clips/aykvso/barf-o-rama-scene-from-stand-by-me).