Hoot-mon!!!!

[auld argonian]

Not exactly sure what it means but I'd venture to say that most of those cliches and stereotypical "Scottish" caricatures harken back to music halls and vaudeville performers....I've never seen Harry Lauder (he is featured in several old films that I' ve been trying to look up) but growing up as a kid in the '50's in the USA, I saw plenty of caricatures of him in old cartoons that ran on the telly almost all day long. I know that "hoot, mon" showed up in those a lot. Don't take umbrage, though, because EVERY ethnic group got made fun of in vaudeville...it was a case of the immigrants laughing at themselves.

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AA