Glasgow/Strathclyde members, we love you

[Unabomber]

Ethan and myself would like to sincerely thank you wonderful people for the time we had in Faslane.  I cannot describe to the other people on the ship adequately what we experienced due to your courtesy.  90% of the people on the ship never left Helensburgh and the few that caught the train to Glasgow didn't seem to have a good time.  When people asked Ethan and I what we did in Scotland, they always get pissed off.  Here's how it happens:

Me:  What did you do in Scotland?

Someone else:  I went shopping, got drunk, and came back to the ship.  What did you do?

Me:  Well, we drove about 50 miles to a hill climb event where cars raced up a hillside at over 100 MPH, then we went to the William Wallace monument.....

Someone else:  You are a ****er.....and then they walk away without hearing the rest of the story.

To each person we met, we would like to say thanks.  I tried my best to spend time with each person, and each person told me their story, their experiences, and their knowledge of the countryside and Scottish life and history.  Needless to say, Ethan and I have a wonderful impression of your country, culture, and history.  We learned that we were both fat Americans who love McDonalds and we embraced this stereotype by eating there twice and winning the eating battle of Scotland vs. American against my new nemesis Clyde.  Clyde went down.....but he did win the war of Scotland vs. America in the joke battles.

I won't reveal the surprise, but when I return to the United States, I will be sending Graeme a package with presents to distribute to the folks that met up with us.  I promise the presents are not chrome chain link license plate frames, but authentic USDM products that are neat and have a little bling for your cars.  I won't return for a month or so and then it's up to the slow people with huge bumps on their hand like Brian at the Royal Post Office to send it along to Graeme.

So, consider this our ultimate thanks and if any of you fine folk are ever going to visit anywhere in America, please feel free to contact me.  No matter where you go in America, I will set you up with the local owners and they will treat you maybe 1/2 as well as you treated us.

Thank you very much and we love you folks!

Ron and Ethan

[micra_wrc]

Ron, Ethan,

I'm pleased you enjoyed yourself and that we managed to get some of our members out over the weekend to take you around.

Seems like you were lucky with the events that were going on, seeing the hillclimb and also a trackday at Knockhill.

Hope you enjoyed your meal at Peters on Saturday, it seemed like you were judging by the noise and laughing coming from that table!

Take care and hope you have as much fun in other places you will visit []

[st3ph3n]

Glad you guys enjoyed yourselves. Looks like I missed a great weekend, but I was unfortunately away "up north" all weekend and by the time I got back it was too late to join in the fun.

I think it speaks volumes about the club in Scotland when we get such a great review from our foreign visitors. So well done to everyone that made you guys feel very welcome, and here's to many more Subaru Cultural exchanges!

[fai17]

I'm so pleased that yous both enjoyed your visit to Scotland....

Next time i go to visit my uncle in Boston,USA i should make an effort to meet the Scooby owners.

The run through Helensburgh to Stirling was both entertaining as well as scenic through the MOD road..

Hope yous have a good time elsewhere.

[Unabomber]

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Next time i go to visit my uncle in Boston,USA i should make an effort to meet the Scooby owners.

As I said, please contact me.  Kenny is one of my dear, dear friends now as he's the one that works at the Chinese restaurant in Boston.  The black pepper sauce they make there is so good, it makes me want to go home and smack my mother.  Sadly, it's one of those recipes that they make by sight and feel so I cannot reproduce it at home.  I plan on going there in late June this year and I will eat prawn and broccoli with black pepper sauce until I am sick.  And their hot and sour soup......I hate that stuff everywhere else, but I will eat a gallon of it from his place.  Kenny is a wagon owner, so you KNOW he's good people.    They all speak with a heavy Boston accent over there, so good luck with that!  I will say this about your restaurant though....I absolutely HATE sweet and sour sauce...can't stand that stuff.  But, your restaurant has the best tasting sweet and sour sauce I've ever had in my life!  Loved that stuff.  Can you email a recipe to schunckr@ddg58.navy.mil or is it like the black pepper sauce where you throw a little of this and that into a pan with no real recipe?

Ron

[fai17]

It will be really hard to replicate our sweet and sour sauce but the basic ingredient will be vinegar,lemon juice,sugar,tomato sauce and tomato puree and water but in what measures...i don't know myself..

Just keep trying and you will come up with a good sauce plus you will need a starch of some sort to thicken it.

I am planning  to go to Boston next year over the 4th July and i will surely contact you then..thank you.

You friend resturant in Boston..is it in Chinatown?I might have been in it before plus my uncle has worked in a few resturant in chinatown.

I will be looking forward to the holiday knowing that a friend is always nearby and in hand.

Take care and speak again soon.

[brian_paterson]

Glad you guys enjoyed yourself, Ron your job with our "cr*p euro putty" is holding up good!! Was really good to meet both of you and next time your over you know who we are.

 

Brian

 

P.S lump is still there, but as you said Ron "a good repair requires a good injury"

[RA Dunk]

glad our visitor enjoyed his time in our country, must have been great stepping of the ship with loads of scoobs waiting to take you away to places you had never seen or heard of before [H][Y] do they not do hill climbs across the big pond? [:$]

[karps]

Ron, Ethan, it was a pleasure on Saturday showing you some of the sights in our country, there is so much to see you wouldnt beleive, but i hope you enjoyed the wee taster.

Ethan, did you see or taste a haggis?

Noel

(apparently the oldest guy to drive a subaru lol)

[Unabomber]

Neither one of us tasted haggis, we were both scared.  I love Scotland, but you can keep your damn haggis.

No hill climbs in America other than a few ones out in the west.  There are just too many legal and insurance issues in America for us to have that much fun.  Lawyers in America ruin the 50% that McDonalds and WalMart hasn't ruined already.

The restaurant in Boston where Kenny works at is called Ocean City East or East Ocean City and I can never remember which is the proper name.  I remember going there the first day with Kenny and ordering prawn and broccoli with black pepper sauce.  The next Sunday, I took a friend off the ship there for another visit.  Well apparently, on Sunday, Chinese restaurants in Boston (maybe all over?) are designed for family dining.  This means when you eat and order food on Sunday, it comes out in a HUGE platter, so one order is really 4 orders and designed for families to pass around and sample.  Well Ron here got a huge platter all to himself and I ate every damn bite!  The waiters there were very impressed though they thought I was odd.  They just had no clue how much I loved it and it wasn't that I was terribly hungry, but the taste made me eat it all.  The next day I was stuck on the ship and Kenny, bless his heart, brought some more to the ship especially for me.  So when I die, Kenny will get my wagon.

P.S.  When you come to Boston, don't forget my wheels buddy!

[the squiggle]

Pleasure to meet the both of you

I said you were the skinniest Septic Tanks i had ever seen and i apologise on behalf of McDonalds UK for the damn small portions.

Yes i admit defeat in the eating challenge but my stomach had shrunk due to Petes place being shut for the past 2 weeks.........On reguler form i can eat a 3lbs Porterhouse Steak with all the trimmings no problem.

I work for DHL (equivelent of Airbourne Express) so i will send you some real SDM stuff like haggis and a sheep in lingerie.

Took me a while to realise who Clyde was, nice one but where does it come from?

Happy sailing my friends

"Have a nice day y'all and you sure do look mighty fine in those jeans boooooooy"

[the squiggle]

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I think it speaks volumes about the club in Scotland when we get such a great review from our foreign visitors. So well done to everyone that made you guys feel very welcome, and here's to many more Subaru Cultural exchanges!

....and they even met me..........woooooohahahahahahahahahahaha

[andy]

Did you give them the goat induction ceremony? []

Seriously - well done guys. Proves what they say about us Jocks being the frendliest nation in the world. []
 

[ally-b]

Well done to everyone involved [Y]

The weather could have been better - but we can't help that [st]- it is Scotland after all []

I'm glad that everybody had a good time , and I hope our new friends from the US will keep in touch via this forum .

Al.

[G.Mac]

Hey Ron glad to hear you and Ethan had a good time, have a good trip and hope to see you guys again sometime

Graeme

[james666]

hey guys sorry i didnt get the chance to meet you both but if yous ever come back to wonderful scotyland i will do my best to meet up with all, have a safe journey home!!!!!!!

[marky.t.s]

i'm glad you both enjoyed yourself at the weekend,i met up with you lot at the hillclimb on saturday,and then up at Perth.As i mentioned on a previous post,Russ(mako) in the Subaru dealers,trying to persuade you to buy a SWRT jacket was the real funny.

happy sailing guys[]