Glasgow, Scotland

It's ... an interesting place. 
==Legends==
shmoo92 sent a post, “You find out that eve...”
pickle-plum: good lord. that legend is either more widespread than i thought or that tumblr post has started a new one.
shmoo92: I think in both cases thebilbosphere mentioned the vampire, but I tells this story:
shmoo92: So my great grandad died of pneumonia (darn mustard gas) before grampa was born, so great gramma's sister came to stay with her. As march came to a close, the sister caught measles and passed it to great gramma. She was so delirious she probably didn't realize she was in labour
shmoo92: Also a blizzard rolled in.
shmoo92: But the doctor manages to make it down the street so that's good but grampa's born with the measles and it also turns out the pipes have frozen.
shmoo92:Baby, however, needs a bath, so the doctor fetches the nearest liquid he can find:
shmoo92: Beer.
pickle-plum: oh my god.
shmoo92:(Probably saved grampa's life, just saying.)
pickle-plum: (true enough)
shmoo92: Fast forward twenty or so years, grampa's working as a top secret radar tech on the coast and a bunch of new recruits are arriving. They start swapping introductions, and he presents himself as being from this small town in Saskatchewan.
"Oh my fucking god!" says one recruit. "Do you know John Irvine???"
"That's me?"
"Were you /actually bathed in beer?"
"Yes?"
"We thought you were dead!!!"
So I wouldn't be at all surprised if the steel toothed vampire legend was that widespread XD
pickle-plum: oh my god.
pickle-plum: that's so /cool.
shmoo92: I know, rite?
shmoo92: It turns out my sister's favourite history teacher grew up a mile away from where grampa grew up ... i should inquire if he knows the tale, too
pickle-plum: you definitely should!
shmoo92: I have asked knowledgeable people!
shmoo92: Sibling says he didn't know, drat
pickle-plum: darn
shmoo92: Alas
Category:Scotland
Category:Scraps