Interfaces.

[Scott SA]

On 11/17/07, Duncan Booth (duncan.booth at invalid.invalid) wrote:

>Bjoern Schliessmann <usenet-mail-0306.20.chr0n0ss at spamgourmet.com> wrote:
>
>> Benjamin wrote:
>>> Python is has duck typing. "If it quacks like a duke, it's duck."
>> 
>> How do dukes quack, exactly? :)
>
>They quack with a North-eastern Scottish accent of course.
>
>The following excerpt from "Scots: Practical Approaches" should make it 
>clear:
>
>> A. From Scotland the What?, by Buff Hardie, Stephen Robertson and
>> George Donald (Gordon Wright, 1987) 
>> 
>> In this comic monologue from 1982, the owner of a toy shop in
>> Ballater, near Aberdeen telephones the Princess of Wales to ask what
>> her son would like for Christmas. 
>> 
>> Noo, fit wid he like for his Christmas, the loon? Fit aboot a pair o‚
>> fitba beets? Beets. Beets. B-O-O-T-S, beets. Weel, I ken that, but
../snip/...
>> D-U-C-K, duke. A quack quack duke. Like Donald Duke. Donald Duke. He‚s
>> a freen‚ o‚ Mickey Moose...Moose...M-O-U-S-E, Moose! God, div ye nae
>> understan‚ English, lassie? 

I think me sister wah bit be onae eese. 
Is ears nae long enuff ta be a rrhabbitt, an ah latter nae care fer cheese.