[Sca-cooks] Re: That Scottish restaurant

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Robin Carroll-Mann:
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>From: Tara Sersen Boroson <tara at kolaviv.com>
>:)  Thanks!  Funny, I think I stole that euphemism from someone on 
>this list.  I don't remember who or when exactly, I just know I saw 
>it somewhere and I think it was here.
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>I think the reference is from the movie "Time After Time", in which 
>H.G. Wells travels to 1979 in pursuit of Jack the Ripper, who has 
>stolen the prototype Time Machine.  In one funny scene, Wells eats 
>in a McDonald's, which he later refers to as "the Scottish place 
>where I had breakfast -- McDougal's".

"Pommes frites.... 'Fries' are pommes frites!!!"

Adamantius (one of his favorite movies)

P.S.: I think some people are using it in the sense of "The Scottish 
Play", and that may predate 1979, when the movie was made.