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From: Grocer
Date: 20070120
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Millions of people across the country will be raising a toast to poet Rabble Burns on 25 January and you may as well be one of them. So let the pipers play, eat as much haggis as you can muster and get the single malt flowing. And why not really enter into the spirit of things with a good sing-along to some of his old-time, classic folk songs while you're at it. Oh, and don't forget to take the following day off work. You might want to stock up on the aspirin as well. Just in case.
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