Books and Movies on Scottish culture

[Rogerws1]

Gormless!

Och! Noo theres's soom collooquial vernacularistic jargonetic slang ye canna help boot sink yur teeth inta!

By the way, so I don't sound like the feckless stereotypical wee Sicilian in "The Princess Bride" that says "inconcievable" all the time to which the stereotypical Spanish sword fighter says "I do not think you know what that means" when I begin to use this wonderful new adjective on my stereotypical teenage children (is it OK if I call them children?):

(Can one sentence run on any longer?)

Just what does "gormless" mean (or should I just read the posts in this thread and pick up the context clues?)?

[Polwarth]

Gormless means - clueless or brainless! I can't be certain, but think it's probably a Yorkshire word.

[Rogerws1]

I cannot tell you how excited I am to learn this. I have a 16, 18, 18, and a 20 year old and I have waited 16-20 years to find a new word to use! Ha!

AND now I will not be gormlessly using it! See; Adjectives rhetorically changed to Adverbs!

[Rogerws1]

PS
Found this along with several other interesting googling gormless internet allusions including www.gormless.net and www.gormless.com:

ADJECTIVE: Chiefly British Lacking intelligence and vitality; dull.

ETYMOLOGY: From dialectal gawm, sense, from Middle English gome, notice, from Old Norse gaumr.

[SherbrookeJacobite]

Originally Posted by Mavericker

Were there any famous Scottish street gangs that came from Edinburgh?

Just the Bay City Rollers.

[Polwarth]

Och, SJ - yer an affae man, soyeur!

[Mavericker]

Originally Posted by Rogerws1

Tunes of Glory 1960
Braveheart - 1995 (Although filmed mostly in the wicklow mtns. of Ireland)
The Desert Rats 1953
The Heroes of Scotland: William Wallace - the True Story - 1996
The Heroes of Scotland: The Bruce of Bannockburn - 1996
The Heroes of Scotland: Rob Roy - The True Story - 1996
Scottish Clans - 2000
Behind The Lines - 1997

That should get you started!
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Alba a' Calma

Yes, I've seen and own Braveheart. Great movie. William Wallace was a man of God, a man among men, a gallus kerne!