What Alexander Graham Bell Did When He Put Down the Phone?

We all know Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, but what did he do after that? Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey takes you to Cape Breton to tell you the tale
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  • @ScotlandHistoryTours
    @ScotlandHistoryToursАй бұрын

    Upcoming Live shows www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx Another Graham Bell video kzread.info/dash/bejne/mXiWmrJvXZivpJs.html Buy me coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/ScottishBruce

  • @jeanwinders9556
    @jeanwinders9556Ай бұрын

    My wee Grandson here in the States recently did a school project about all the important discoveries and innovations made by Scots, which was considering longer than his schoolmates. After awhile his teacher wanted to know how Scottish was his family 😂

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    Ай бұрын

    😆

  • @tonyharpur8383

    @tonyharpur8383

    27 күн бұрын

    I really can't imagine why the teacher was so suspicious.😉

  • @peterkelly1665
    @peterkelly1665Ай бұрын

    When a physics teacher speaks history you get this great performance most enjoyable

  • @musingwithreba9667
    @musingwithreba9667Ай бұрын

    I had no idea Bell invented the flappy things on airplane wings! Very cool 😎

  • @KarenG.-qs7wc

    @KarenG.-qs7wc

    Ай бұрын

    Neither did I.

  • @theoztreecrasher2647

    @theoztreecrasher2647

    Ай бұрын

    "the flappy things on airplane wings"??? They're the remains of the Geese that encountered the engines aren't they? 🤔😱🙄

  • @chrissherer2047

    @chrissherer2047

    Ай бұрын

    Not on the wings but at the tail. Wing flaps change altitude. Ailerons change tilt so that one or the other wings dip for better turning like a bike does.

  • @tonykeast9966

    @tonykeast9966

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@chrissherer2047glad you cleared that error up, all the hundreds of ailerons I've worked on and controlled on aircraft were on wings. You should tell Boeing etc about their silly mistake so they can fix it.

  • @musingwithreba9667

    @musingwithreba9667

    Ай бұрын

    @@chrissherer2047 oooohhhh! Bruce was flapping, so I thought it was on the wings 😁

  • @cafiend
    @cafiendАй бұрын

    Garfield also died from infections because doctors still didn’t believe in washing their hands yet.

  • @DouglasJenkins
    @DouglasJenkinsАй бұрын

    Bell's invention of ailerons sidestepped the Wright's patent for wing-warping for turn control...so there's that, too!

  • @pjmoseley243
    @pjmoseley243Ай бұрын

    Scots have made great inventions they have are great warriors and they are great people they have made the UK a great island to live on and everyone here now lives in the shadow of greatness that scots of the past have created. I feel proud to be associated with Scotland the Brave, the good and the wonderful people they are.

  • @nancyholcombe8030
    @nancyholcombe8030Ай бұрын

    What a wonderful video, Bruce! I love how you always find things I haven't found! My father was an aeronautical engineer who got his love of airplanes flying out of Britain as a navigator in WWII. He taught me quite a bit about it but never mentioned a word about Alexander Graham Bell. I had no idea that he had contributed so much to modern flight! And I see that the press was as awful back then as it is now: I wonder if the fact that Bell's instructions weren't followed to the letter was not conveyed to the public because it would then put the blame on our government's medical handling of the President? So coverups were around even back then! 😁Yikes. Appreciate all the beautiful shots of Canada's Eastern islands. I look forward to seeing more of that beautiful country in your future videos! Y'all take care now! 😊

  • @ceilidhmckay9066
    @ceilidhmckay9066Ай бұрын

    Canadian author Charlotte Gray has written a wonderful book on Alexander Graham Bell titled Reluctant Genius. Great video!

  • @macdodd
    @macdoddАй бұрын

    We stopped at Baddeck for a couple of days & visited his museum. Lovely place. really opened my ayes

  • @olivemd
    @olivemdАй бұрын

    Visiting the town where I went to school. Nice place. Great memories. By the way, my father’s first language was Gaelic. He did not speak English until he was 8 years old. He was born in 1902.

  • @davepowell3293
    @davepowell3293Ай бұрын

    His Silver Dart also had the first tricycle landing gear.

  • @frankhancock2881
    @frankhancock2881Ай бұрын

    Bruce as always you've never failed teach and entertain me

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you sir

  • @raydriver7300
    @raydriver7300Ай бұрын

    Scottish genius at its best, once again. Brilliantly researched, written and presented. Have a successful trip in Canada, Bruce. 🌞

  • @mydogsareneat

    @mydogsareneat

    Ай бұрын

    As the kids say "let him cook, and they will leave no crumbs"

  • @Wee_Langside
    @Wee_LangsideАй бұрын

    Fascinating story Bruce. You can never rely on medics to do as they're asked😮. I read somewhere a long time ago that Mabel was deaf and the telephone was a by product of research to help her. My grandmother was completely deaf and had never learnt sign language so anything other than basic communication was written. My grandson has slight hearing impairment and has hearing aids which are so small you can hardly see them, I'd like to think Sandy Bell would be extremely happy with hearing aids like my grandson's. Have a great tour.

  • @LimeyRedneck
    @LimeyRedneckАй бұрын

    How one person could think of all of those disparate inventions!! 🤯😎

  • @lenabreijer1311

    @lenabreijer1311

    Ай бұрын

    He didn't include the hovercraft and submarines Bell also worked on...

  • @bradrmt
    @bradrmtАй бұрын

    Yep, after Bell invented the telephone in Brantford Ontario, he patented it in both the UK and the USA, but it was disputed for most of a decade in the USA, so he was forced to move to Washington D.C. After the legal disputes were over he moved back to Canada, to Nova Scotia, where he went on to make inventions that made airplanes durable enough for multiple use, meaning that airplanes became commercially viable rather than being curiosities. A guy named Curtis, who had worked for Bell, stole all the patents and started up Curtis Aeronautics in the USA.

  • @TheTimelord62
    @TheTimelord62Ай бұрын

    Thanks again Bruce. A thank you for making Scottish history so available to people round the world. Let's hope we can show them more after July 4. Enjoy your tour.

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    Ай бұрын

    It's what we do

  • @JBond-zf4dj
    @JBond-zf4djАй бұрын

    I love the Star Trek reference! 😂 Hello from Nova Scotia. Glad you made it here for a visit, love your videos.

  • @johncalloway3547
    @johncalloway354723 күн бұрын

    My family is from Cape Breton. I love this fellow. I am definately not a fan of Scotland even being a Cameron but if there were more Scotsmen like Bruce i would consider going back again. Scotland to me has always been a cruel,dark and bleak place on the map and this man warms your heart but to me Scotland stopped being Scotland on April 16, 1746

  • @gijgij4541
    @gijgij4541Ай бұрын

    Good morning all. It is a lovely sunny one here in West Yorkshire, with the birds beaking vociferously.

  • @crazychicSHENA
    @crazychicSHENAАй бұрын

    Am forgetting Alex's Gram 🔔was Scottish and American Heritage🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸 What A' Inventor wow So. we are All using" Scottish Technology Very Interesting. thankfully we" Have channel's like this for informative stories of Scotland.

  • @joyb5525
    @joyb5525Ай бұрын

    What a brain, storyteller and important historian. I regret not going to Canada 50+ years ago when I had the chance. Looks an amazing place. Thanks Bonny Bruce.

  • @canuckled
    @canuckledАй бұрын

    Nothing about his hydrofoil experiments? Might need a future video

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    Ай бұрын

    There's always too much to fit in. I'll be back

  • @henryblaylock2946
    @henryblaylock2946Ай бұрын

    Just watched the King Richard the 3rd movie was so pleasantly surprised to see you in it. Got a real kick out of saying “hey I know that guy!”

  • @ceeej1290

    @ceeej1290

    Ай бұрын

    Just watched because you just watched and left this comment, great watch thanks for the tip 👍

  • @Allastrology
    @AllastrologyАй бұрын

    Another, " I didnt know that!" Actually said that multiple times in this vid...metal detector and flight!! Thank you Bruce and I like that hoodie

  • @markbaker8607
    @markbaker8607Ай бұрын

    Mark Armstrong Baker signing in for my history lesson. Thank you.

  • @badgermacleod5588
    @badgermacleod558829 күн бұрын

    It's wild to see a video filmed in Cape Breton.

  • @jameshorne9351
    @jameshorne9351Ай бұрын

    Thanks Bruce for another great educational video about more shit i didn't know... LoL 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    Ай бұрын

    Delighted

  • @yef122
    @yef122Ай бұрын

    I've been to Baddeck and seen the Bell museum. Really beautiful town and interesting museum!

  • @sandylee9564
    @sandylee9564Ай бұрын

    Its always a pleasure to learn truthful history....thank you Bruce.

  • @daviddodds6071
    @daviddodds6071Ай бұрын

    Love Cape Breton we toured it 2 years ago

  • @toeslayer
    @toeslayerАй бұрын

    Fab presentation once again. Graham Bell resembles Paw Broon. Difficult to unsee.

  • @rksnj6797
    @rksnj6797Ай бұрын

    Entertaining and informative video! You taught me facts abut AGB that I didn't know. Bruce, after watching your Washington DC video, we know what DC really stands for! IYKYK. As for Langley, thank you for talking about him. I knew about him but many people don't. The US Navy's first aircraft carrier was the USS Langley (CV-1) in honor of Langley's research in aviation. The Wright Bros. used a technique called "wing warping" to bank an aircraft. It wasn't as effective as ailerons.

  • @campervanhelsing
    @campervanhelsingАй бұрын

    The " I think she's ignoring me" dit was so good hahaha

  • @robertkoons1154
    @robertkoons1154Ай бұрын

    He also invented a hydrofoil boat at cape Bretton and before the phone he invented an electric hearing aid.

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    Ай бұрын

    I know, but there's only so much time in a video😜

  • @bigredmarchingon3200
    @bigredmarchingon3200Ай бұрын

    I can't fucking believe I forgot to buy a ticket to your Ottawa show I'm just east of Toronto I'll have to see if theirs time for me to catch the Hamilton show.

  • @user-st7wb3yf3d

    @user-st7wb3yf3d

    Ай бұрын

    I never knew you'd get away with fucking on KZread.

  • @Colin32269

    @Colin32269

    25 күн бұрын

    Or take a cruise down to Seaforth(40.min outta London) for Bruces show BigRed

  • @lsdev4229
    @lsdev4229Ай бұрын

    Baddeck is one of my favourite places Bruce. Hope you get to go to the Margaree valley and the Cabot Tail while you are in Cape Breton...dont forget "Lake O Law" too...oh and Louisebourg...and...🤣, it is a beautiful place.🥰🇨🇦Sharon.

  • @threezerol944t
    @threezerol944tАй бұрын

    So that's who we have to blame for these damn phones following us everywhere, and dictating life to us.

  • @allanlewisorr335
    @allanlewisorr335Ай бұрын

    All the best from Rock Creek BC enjoy your Canadian tour, I certainly enjoy your videos.

  • @DH.2016
    @DH.2016Ай бұрын

    Looks like Granpaw Broon. Bell's statue. Not Bruce. 😂

  • @aaronmacdougall9631
    @aaronmacdougall963129 күн бұрын

    I grew up about an hour from Baddeck and spent a lot of time there as a lad. I can remember in seeing the replica of the Silver dart created to celebrate the 75th anniversary of its 1909 flight. It currently resides in the Atlantic Aviation Museum across the Trans Canada Highway from the Halifax Airport. You drove right by it!

  • @johnbayer9795
    @johnbayer979529 күн бұрын

    The landscape looked enough like my native Minnesota that I guessed the Great Lakes region. Interestingly I heard a few years ago that Cape Breton Island had the cheapest home prices in (I assume) Anglo-America.

  • @SteinerHaus
    @SteinerHausАй бұрын

    Most of the time when A.G. Bell is mentioned it is limited to the telephone. Bell was a truly fascinating person. I'm proud of him being a Canadian and of Scots descent. There is very little taught about his works other than the 'telephone': "Watson, come here. I need you". Your tale is another one that should be broadcast widely to celebrate the contributions of the Scots!

  • @patriciaMeany

    @patriciaMeany

    Ай бұрын

    He was a Scottish Canadian born in Scotland, then come to Canada

  • @DMCDObidon
    @DMCDObidonАй бұрын

    The first ever prank call was Watsons return call - Am I ringing A Bell? Is that A Bell im Ringing?

  • @erinmaceachern9444
    @erinmaceachern9444Ай бұрын

    I love your videos! I live in Sydney CB and I sure hope you enjoyed your stay. Ciad mille failte. My father's family stopped speaking Gaelic when they realized the kids were starting to understand what the adults were saying 😂

  • @hilariousname6826

    @hilariousname6826

    29 күн бұрын

    Same with my father and his family - in Sydney ... ! He said they were talking about something he wasn't supposed to understand, when he asked them a question about it, in Gaelic .....

  • @Sean-qw3jp
    @Sean-qw3jpАй бұрын

    Hello Bruce! Love this episode! Hope you're enjoying your visit to Canada so far! We're happy to have you! Counting down the days till ye hit Fergus! Looking forward to it! 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @michellerhodes9910
    @michellerhodes9910Ай бұрын

    Excellent piece of history. An extraordinary and hard working man. Thank you, Bruce.

  • @MeALG.
    @MeALG.29 күн бұрын

    Always enjoy your stories.

  • @robyndavis3043
    @robyndavis304329 күн бұрын

    His friend, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), hated having one of the early phones in his house (his children loved it), and he refused to use it!

  • @DuncanMcintyre-jk3qb
    @DuncanMcintyre-jk3qb29 күн бұрын

    Super super Bruce super super Bruce soooooooper brucey fumey coyp come on you saints and thank you i

  • @ElaineDuff-te5ck
    @ElaineDuff-te5ckАй бұрын

    Thank you for your awesome show last night in moncton .. LMAO... sure hope to see you come back someday

  • @patriciaMeany
    @patriciaMeanyАй бұрын

    One of the best books I have ready How the Scots invented the modern world

  • @raymondporter2094
    @raymondporter209411 күн бұрын

    You really are VERY good at these history videos. Carry on the good work, please!

  • @anthonycolbourne4206
    @anthonycolbourne420628 күн бұрын

    You have to do a bit on Alexander Keith as well, a famous brewer and mayor of Halifax, originally from Scotland

  • @joaelfwine1431
    @joaelfwine143129 күн бұрын

    I am totally in love with you! Your humor. Your stories. Everything.

  • @robbylock1741
    @robbylock1741Ай бұрын

    Here's hoping that you'll tour in the United States some time. Oh I know it would be worth the trip to see you perform in Canada or Scotland, but there are enough yanks that need to hear your wit, humor and knowledge and learn that some of the best times to be had, start with you and the words "Let me tell you a story!"

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    Ай бұрын

    😘

  • @janetmackinnon3411
    @janetmackinnon3411Ай бұрын

    Why did I not know this before? What a mind---and determination! Thank you again.

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ffАй бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    Ай бұрын

    You're welcome!

  • @user-st7wb3yf3d
    @user-st7wb3yf3dАй бұрын

    Interesting, as always, never knew about Bell inventing the Aileron.

  • @wloszczyznazkrakowa
    @wloszczyznazkrakowaАй бұрын

    Great story! Thank you!

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    Ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @JohnRoss1
    @JohnRoss128 күн бұрын

    Quite a excellent Bell Museum in Baddeck too. Also has his hydrofoil prototypes from experiments conducted on the lake.

  • @daverothwell4579
    @daverothwell457919 күн бұрын

    Coming to see your show tomorrow night at the Gladstone. Hopefully we will get to meet up. Slianté Mhaith!!

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    19 күн бұрын

    I'll be in the Irish pub along the road after the show

  • @robertpearson8798
    @robertpearson87988 күн бұрын

    I’m in Hamilton and I’d love to see your show at the Westdale but unfortunately we’re going to be on the road for a while by then. I’ll look forward to more videos though.

  • @Your_Friend_Adam
    @Your_Friend_Adam29 күн бұрын

    The overarching theme here: You can't keep a good Scot down when there's work to be done.

  • @bradgardner4299
    @bradgardner4299Ай бұрын

    Whoo! Hold a minute, are you sure the Australia's were not the first manned flight, way before the Wright brothers? Maybe in another video??

  • @euansmith3699
    @euansmith3699Ай бұрын

    Bruce, "Do you know who this is?" Me, "WG Grace?"

  • @ClarenceCochran-ne7du
    @ClarenceCochran-ne7duАй бұрын

    Excellent History once again Bruce. I don't think there's enough room to begin a list of all the contributions Scots have made to our modern world. A.G. Bell just one of a very long list.

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    Ай бұрын

    You know it's true

  • @Colin32269
    @Colin3226925 күн бұрын

    Campbelton NB has a giant wooden statue of a highlander looking over the bay and he is the spittin image of me) 😂😂😂

  • @sharktomesmiles
    @sharktomesmilesАй бұрын

    This was great vid. Did you have fun Bruce?

  • @user-vs7qq8wb8t
    @user-vs7qq8wb8tАй бұрын

    Welcome to Canada :)

  • @jgalt155
    @jgalt155Ай бұрын

    " the hell wi this, i've been listening to Vivaldi for the last hour", love the vids btw.

  • @PrivateWalker
    @PrivateWalkerАй бұрын

    There was even a song about him (1972)

  • @alansmithee8831
    @alansmithee8831Ай бұрын

    A'reyt Bruce. Bell had a great mind and put it to use to make things better. He had an appropriate name as well. What a great location too. You seemed to love the subject matter. Was there a physics teacher in there, bursting out? I struggled to understand my physics teacher at school, then at university an American student said he saw a note from the physics department asking why I had not taken it as my first subject. I used to hang around with the students from that course, having made friends with one as the first person I met there, but they were friendly and fun, not at all nerdy. Mind you my pal became an accountant and a politician. Hmmm! More stuff like this video might get more to want to study it and go on to make things better?

  • @neonachas
    @neonachas23 күн бұрын

    The Wright brothers invented flight? Only if you ignore earlier efforts, like the one Bruce mentioned, and the one by Richard Pearse in Otago, New Zealand (Otago being settled by Scots) on 31 March 1902 - 18 months before before the Wright brothers.

  • @BriarCottage

    @BriarCottage

    22 күн бұрын

    From what I learned because wright's patented it first. Like some kind of technological race.

  • @caperknight
    @caperknightАй бұрын

    Will we be getting a video on Cape Breton Tea Biscuits?

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    Ай бұрын

    Nope. Maybe a bit of live material about Jaffa Cakes though😜

  • @TheArnaa
    @TheArnaaАй бұрын

    There’s a fascinating book called “How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It” by Arthur Herman.

  • @davestrachan7314
    @davestrachan731427 күн бұрын

    Are you sure you dont want to stop on the praries on the way to Cowtown? Manitoba would be great!😊

  • @rodneybell3201
    @rodneybell3201Ай бұрын

    He is of the Border Bells 🔔

  • @annsmith9196
    @annsmith9196Ай бұрын

    Love the shirt. 😊

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    Ай бұрын

    Thanks! 😄

  • @alundavies1016
    @alundavies101625 күн бұрын

    He probably remembered something that was the reason he had called in the first place.

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    24 күн бұрын

    True

  • @ianb9028
    @ianb9028Ай бұрын

    I’d like to think he turned to Mr Watson and said “What are you doing here get back to work”.

  • @staceyrashkin2609
    @staceyrashkin260920 күн бұрын

    He was a DB. He was a eugenicist and believed that deaf people shouldn't marry other deaf people Because he believed that would create more deaf people. He felt that it was something that should be eradicated .

  • @royale4318
    @royale431827 күн бұрын

    Do I recognise this man? Aye, as soon as I saw him come on the screen I said to the wife, "That's Val Sharp's laddie!"

  • @trikepilot101
    @trikepilot101Ай бұрын

    You are early with the vid, Bruce. I am in Ottawa and I haven't seen you yet.

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    Ай бұрын

    I know, we changed the sequence

  • @TheEggmaniac
    @TheEggmaniacАй бұрын

    Americans and Canadians claim Bell as their own. Fair enough he did live most of his life in Canada and America. But he was born in Edinburgh and lived his formative years in Scotland. I believe he left Britain when aged 19. So Scotland can most rightly claim him as a Scot.

  • @larsbjrnson3101
    @larsbjrnson3101Ай бұрын

    When Alexander Bell invented the telephone, he had 3 missed calls from Chuck Norris.

  • @sharktomesmiles
    @sharktomesmiles28 күн бұрын

    Ok Bruce and crew please tell me about Minches??? Im a wood and water sprite.

  • @wiltaylor
    @wiltaylorАй бұрын

    Welcome to Canada. failte!

  • @rickmills4801
    @rickmills480129 күн бұрын

    Well, I should think he jumped-up & stripped, as he'd just had a lap full of acid!

  • @hannahk1306
    @hannahk1306Ай бұрын

    I thought this video was going to be about his tendencies towards eugenics and discrimination of deaf people (such as promoting oralism over sign language, which lead to an increase in communication difficulties for generations of deaf people).

  • @hilariousname6826

    @hilariousname6826

    29 күн бұрын

    Who didn't have a 'tendency towards eugenics' back in the 1890s?

  • @BriarCottage
    @BriarCottage22 күн бұрын

    Hello can you please talk about why alot of the castles and large building were built burned and rebuilt in Scotland? and where these buildings built before colonization or after? Thank you

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    21 күн бұрын

    Sorry, I don't understand the question

  • @BriarCottage

    @BriarCottage

    21 күн бұрын

    @ScotlandHistoryTours There is history about castles being burned and rebuilt in Scotland. Do you think colonizers were trying to destroy Scotland history and then covering it up. Second question: were the castles created after colonization or before by the native scots.

  • @007JHS
    @007JHSАй бұрын

    There is a story to be told about John Logie Baird... As a schoolboy be built his own telephone exchange and handpieces... he had the exchange in his bedroom and handpieces to his friends..... set up his own 'deemed' illegal phone lines between homes

  • @hilariousname6826

    @hilariousname6826

    29 күн бұрын

    Kid that lived next door did that when I was a kid - we had our own private telephone connection ... until my parents discovered that he had it set up so he could eavesdrop whenever he wanted ... !

  • @wizzerdsuntzu
    @wizzerdsuntzuАй бұрын

    Did he ever meet James Clerk Maxwell or Lord Kelvin?

  • @hilariousname6826
    @hilariousname682629 күн бұрын

    Is the Bell museum no longer there, or were you not allowed to film in it? Just wondering; I kept expecting to see it.

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    29 күн бұрын

    Aye, they wouldnae let us in

  • @hilariousname6826

    @hilariousname6826

    29 күн бұрын

    @@ScotlandHistoryTours Told you to come back after you'd had a nap and a cup of coffee, did they?

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours

    @ScotlandHistoryTours

    29 күн бұрын

    @@hilariousname6826 Sorry, there's a joke here I'm missing

  • @hilariousname6826

    @hilariousname6826

    29 күн бұрын

    @@ScotlandHistoryTours I meant to imply that you'd been sampling the local beverages and weren't fit to be out in public; apparently I was being too clever by half; I'll have to keep working on that one .... hmmm, I wonder if there's a reason you're the guy with the stage show while I'm the guy who can't get a laugh in the youtube comments ... !

  • @amyferebee
    @amyferebeeАй бұрын

    🎶😎🎶

  • @robertewen3322
    @robertewen3322Ай бұрын

    Is it Oor Wullies grandad!??

  • @jameshorne9351
    @jameshorne9351Ай бұрын

    Wow, the mental gymnastics of this comment thread is definitely unique!!

  • @takaela
    @takaelaАй бұрын

    McCurdy's Boy by Tanglefoot: kzread.info/dash/bejne/g6OazZV_ireeadI.html

  • @PhilipMatthewsPAEACP
    @PhilipMatthewsPAEACPАй бұрын

    The PAEACP/PAEACPAB are waiting for YOU.