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Roll on Burns Night

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You don't have to be Scottish

Greetings clubbers
No, that's too Young Ones
Felicitations woodpushers
Too Squire of Gothos?

Ahoy me hearties,

If you're north of the tropics, chances are the days get longer but the air gets colder, and wherever you are somehow the news gets still crazier.

But 'tis Thursday the sixteenth, meaning that we're passed hump day and we're more than halfway through January, surely the scurviest month of them all.

Why not pass the time by giving some of your time to THINK? From Ultrabullet to Classical with everything inbetween, THINK gives back what ye put in. Maybe I'm a poet and I don't know it? Burns Night is a week tomorrow, and it really ought to be a holiday (Blue Monday is sooner, but it is the antithesis of a holiday. Australia Day is an actual holiday and with the time difference there may even be overlap, but Burns Night is still the previous day. And does an actual Haggis get piped in on Australia Day?). Burns Night is not only for Scots, nor is it just for the great and the good: it celebrates someone worth celebrating, and if you're reading this then you can read his works, with whatever degree of translation you find you need. You've probably heard someone quote him, possibly without realising. I shall leave you to investigate.

Anyway, if you're not in THINK then join and join in with something. You shan't regret it!