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Relatives of the Scottish Haggi by the_other_giuliani
Less known than the Highland Haggis is their South American counterpart, the Patogonian Haggis, a fierce meat-eater known to have mauled and devoured back-packers, pumas and descendants of Welsh immigrants. Even less known is the New Zealand Haggis, which completely resembles the flightless Kiwi and is therefore "pretty hard to spot" says Andrew M. Patterson of the Christchurch Bird-Watching Society.
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More Haggi Facts by The Ego
The easiest way to tell the sex of a common haggis is by looking at their legs. Male haggi travel around mountains in a clockwise direction and therefore have a longer left leg, whilst females travel counter-clockwise and have longer right legs. The common haggis is for this reason one of the few animals that use the missionary position.
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Catching Haggi Properly by phanty
The only strain of haggis which can be caught be approaching face on is a mutant strain bred in the 1970s which escaped from a research site near Inverness. Common haggi have four legs and due to their excellent forward eyesight and hearing, will always evade predators in front of them. The correct method of catching them is to approach from behind and whistle. The animal will turn round to seee who is there and then roll down the hill. Flying haggi cannot be caught by this means because they have no legs. Instead they have a smooth scaly belly which they use to skim over the tops of the heather. This also makes them very resistant to shotgun pellets.
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Haggis - catching it and serving it by Marianne
The haggis is a small turkey-sized two-legged creature that lives on Scots mountains, and consequently has one leg shorter than the other in order to deal with the gradient differential. Haggi (the plural of haggis is haggi) are caught by two people with a bag. One sits at the bottom of the hill with the bag. The other roams the mountain until he or she comes face to face with the haggis, which cannot turn around and run away as it would then be in the wrong direction for its legs to work properly.
It falls over, rolls down the hill and is caught in the bag. When the haggis is served at table, it is accompanied through to the dining room by a man in a tartan kilt playing the bagpipes, then addressed officially with a poem by Robert Burns, and then cut open with a sword before being served to the gathering accompanied by a pastinaceous side dish known as neaps.
as enscribed by the letter b @ May 7, 2004 04:37 AM