Inevitable: First tribute site to Scottish baggage handler debuts
posted at 9:04 am on July 2, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Treacher told me this guy would be an Internet phenomenon within 20 minutes of his interview airing on Fox. And he was right. You have to poke around the site to fully appreciate it, but here’s my favorite part from a commenter who claims to know him:
I did in fact work with the great man at airway handling in the airport from 1998-2001. Nearly shit myself when I saw him on TV, not only because I knew him but also because he’s still stuck in baggage hell!
Wheen I knew him he was living in a flat in Hyndland but I think he mybe was from Erskine originally. I stayed at his flat a couple of times: interesting fact about smeats, he owns either two or three ferrets which run about all over the place. His favourite one was white and I think it might have been called snowy.
Might there also, perchance, be a list of Norrisesque “cool facts” about John Smeaton? My friends, there might.
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I’m gonna shell out the bucks to buy him a pint.
csdeven on July 2, 2007 at 9:07 AM
He has no idea what 15 min. of fame will do…he is in for one hell of a ride.
right2bright on July 2, 2007 at 9:11 AM
Gotta love the Internet!
Bob's Kid on July 2, 2007 at 9:11 AM
I wonder if Rudy would have the Malkins to take John on in a debate about ferret ownership?
The clash of the Titans no doubt!
csdeven on July 2, 2007 at 9:16 AM
Hyndland is a pretty swank part of Glasgow. Must have been a nice flat for them ferrets.
carlitos on July 2, 2007 at 9:19 AM
Still laughing at your ridiculous statement of yours regarding: If you enter an argument, what other people say (even if you don’t agree) you take ownership. Stupid, stupid, shame on you for misquoting me and not taking ownership. And then blaming me for what others posted…weak and spineless.
right2bright on July 2, 2007 at 9:19 AM
I wonder if this guy is a practitoner of the Scottish Martial Art method mentioned by Mike Myers in “So I Married an Axe Murderer”: Fu-Que
liberrocky on July 2, 2007 at 9:27 AM
So, what do you think of Scotland’s newest hero and his 15 minutes of fame? Are you going to donate a few bucks to buy him a pint? How do you feel about ferrets? Do you think this will affect Rudy’s campaign since it is clear that ferret owners are some pretty tough hombre’s and Rudy has, in the past, been pretty tough on ferret folk?
csdeven on July 2, 2007 at 9:29 AM
Sounds(??)like he was a pretty good watcher of the events. Didn’t(at least what I could understand)hear him say
“we” or “I” helped assist the police..Neverless he did do his part..I guess.
Legions on July 2, 2007 at 9:29 AM
If a person has never run toward danger when others are running away from it, it’s pretty tough to understand the thoughts that go through your mind at the time.
He did do his part, and you know that terrorists around the world recognize that regular folks are not gonna put up with their BS even though our public officials, for some reason, feel the need to acquiesce. That is why I am going to buy John a pint.
csdeven on July 2, 2007 at 9:34 AM
..csdeven..you are right about a first time encounter of panic..The guy did sound like a pretty good joe, and he was doing a job the Kennedy crowd say we are unable to do..so yes give him a break on this one. It’s the next one that counts…
Legions on July 2, 2007 at 10:14 AM
What???
This guy has Chertoff living with him?
conservnut on July 2, 2007 at 10:20 AM
Rampers to the rescue!
Tony737 on July 2, 2007 at 10:22 AM
What???
This guy has Chertoff living with him?
conservnut on July 2, 2007 at 10:20 AM
he said ferrets not weasles
palefaced on July 2, 2007 at 10:31 AM
Maybe it’s because I have a wee bit of Scots blood, but I understood almost every world the man was saying.
Or maybe it’s the Scotch in the bloodstream.
Ellen on July 2, 2007 at 10:53 AM
I’m converted.
Jezla on July 2, 2007 at 11:01 AM
We (wife, daughter and myself) spent ten days in Glasgow at the beginning of the year. Flew into and out of Glasgow Airport.
I had no problem understanding him, btw.
N. O'Brain on July 2, 2007 at 11:09 AM
Ya know, I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that just as soon as W is out of office, no matter if the new occupant is donk or elephant, we’re going to see a terroism push like we’re seeing right now in the UK.
Intimidate the ‘new’ power structure into submission. Just like in Spain and other places.
The West has to stand strong and defeat this dispicable and barbaric enemy.
Yet again.
techno_barbarian on July 2, 2007 at 11:12 AM
Ellen, it could be both. He sounded great, and he is cute in that foreign accent kind of way.
Stormy70 on July 2, 2007 at 11:29 AM
Yearly visitor to Scotland. No problems understanding him either… But then, I LOVE those accents.
Good on ya, John! Mee’me in Edinburgh in March…I’ll buy ya a pint or 10.
tickleddragon on July 2, 2007 at 11:33 AM
I love it, i will have to buy him a pint. He deserves it.
kathleen on July 2, 2007 at 11:36 AM
Awesome. Just like the cool facts about Jeff Sessions.
PRCalDude on July 2, 2007 at 11:44 AM
Now if only someone could get the Scots to speak intelligible English…
mojo on July 2, 2007 at 2:13 PM
Any truth to the rumors that Rudy chewed him out yet?
RightWinged on July 2, 2007 at 2:30 PM
Man, just watched the CNN vid… this dude will be a star. He’ll be doing the late night circuit in the US before long.
RightWinged on July 2, 2007 at 2:36 PM
I don’t know why this bristled me, but Sparky, they’ve been speaking it longer than we have. Imagine landing in the “sticks” here or deep in the bowels of NYC…Got news for you, some of our folks are just as “intelligible”. All in where you’re coming from. So, please don’t be insulting.
tickleddragon on July 2, 2007 at 2:52 PM
Bristles down now. Sorry, Mojo…but that got me.
tickleddragon on July 2, 2007 at 2:53 PM
Something about the way he said “egress.” I like how that site captured his distinctive facial expressions. It’s so rare that I get something right, I’m not sure what to do!
Jim Treacher on July 2, 2007 at 3:03 PM
I’ll gladly buy a pint of Tennant’s (yum) for him.
Ah, Glaswegians. Either tough or daft, I’m not sure which. One of the only places, though, where a wee baggage handler will kick the cr*p out of a terrorist. On a smoke break, no less.
As someone who is half Scottish, I say pure dead brilliant, Sir. Alba Gu Brath!
Lori_Z on July 2, 2007 at 4:27 PM
“they’ve been speaking it longer than we have.”
Nah. It jus’ takes ‘eem loonger ta git it oot…
And I’m a Scot, so I’ll make whatever jokes I like, Sparky.
mojo on July 2, 2007 at 4:45 PM
Good to see the truthers are already infiltrating the comments over there.
LindsayK on July 2, 2007 at 5:29 PM
Scotmen are just waiting for someone other than Wankers to beat up. Ever see ‘Trainspotting’? Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle are awesome:
Tommy: Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish?
Mark “Rent-boy” Renton: It’s SHITE being Scottish! We’re the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched miserable servile pathetic trash that was ever shat on civilization. Some people hate the English. I don’t. They’re just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. Can’t even find a decent culture to get colonized by. We’re ruled by effete assholes. It’s a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won’t make any fucking difference!
Having said all that, my favorite “cool John Smeaton fact” was: John Smeaton died 5 years ago, Death never had the balls to tell him.
Sultry Beauty on July 2, 2007 at 6:27 PM
If you’re pickin’ on yer owen sieed, please state that upfront…it just sounded like an insult from an outsider. I happen to like them and their accent, so was only taking up for’em.
No harm meant.
tickleddragon on July 2, 2007 at 10:00 PM
mojo, are you truly SCOT, or Scottish American?
tickleddragon on July 2, 2007 at 10:02 PM
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