The Burryman

August 13, 2006 10:00 PM

Every year the The Burryman makes his appearance at the Ferry Fair Festival. It has now been revealed how he copes with all that whisky.
posted by tellurian (13 comments total)

Don't be fooled. If I know Australians, and I do, this is just an elaborate scheme some clever drunk came up with to score some free booze.

/ I kid, I kid!
posted by The Card Cheat at 10:15 PM on August 13, 2006

Australians? He's in Scotland.
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 10:18 PM on August 13, 2006

can we maintain a little separation from FARK here?

kthx.
posted by Heywood Mogroot at 10:36 PM on August 13, 2006

No, no we cannot.
posted by 517 at 10:44 PM on August 13, 2006

will search fark before posting in future

yrwlcme.
posted by tellurian at 10:51 PM on August 13, 2006

These pictures, originally made for FUN, cover the annual preparation and pergrination of The Burry man (or Burryman), who walks around South Queensferry one Friday every August - to safeguard the herring catch.

Herring catch: Let's nae be caught this year! Let's tell them, fook it, we're nae gonna be eaten this year!

Burryman: Could someone scratch my back? I canna reach it in a' these burrrs.

Herring catch: Fook. It's him. We're for it, lads.
posted by pracowity at 12:03 AM on August 14, 2006

If I try to say "I'm the Ferry Fair Burryman" in a Scottish accent, I already sound drunk.
posted by planetkyoto at 12:12 AM on August 14, 2006

Things to give me unsettling dreams, Parts Being One: The annual appearance of a burrcovered ambulatory being.
posted by redsparkler at 12:35 AM on August 14, 2006

PLEASE SEARCH THE WHOLE INTERNETS BEFORE POSTING TO METAFILTER TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVEN'T POSTED SOMETHING POSTED ANYWHERE ELSE BEFORE!
posted by Effigy2000 at 12:46 AM on August 14, 2006

Wow. Was the OMGWTFCAPSLOCK really necessary?
posted by FritoKAL at 6:19 AM on August 14, 2006

Upon further review...if I know Scots, and I do...

*slinks away red-faced*
posted by The Card Cheat at 6:47 AM on August 14, 2006

The Internets is a series of tubes... with whiskey at the end of it.

You'd have to get me to drink a lot of whiskey before I'd get into one of those outfits. Looks painful.
posted by ZachsMind at 9:45 AM on August 14, 2006

will search internet before posting in…

hang on!!
posted by tellurian at 6:30 PM on August 14, 2006