Beardie

Isobel MacDougal, wife of Walter, the first Laird of Raeburn, and mother of Walter Scott, called Beardie, was grand-aunt, I take it, to the late Sir George MacDougal.

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824

Scott's great-grandfather was the famous "Beardie" of Harden, so called because after the exile of the Stuart sovereigns he swore never to cut his beard until they were reinstated; and several degrees farther back he could point to a still more famous figure, "Auld Wat of Harden," who with his fair dame, the "Flower of Yarrow," is mentioned in _The Lay of the Last

Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801

"Beardie," which is only funny to somebody who watches The Office obsessively (and maybe not even then).

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WALTER SCOTT ( "Beardie"), Great-grandfather of Sir Walter

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824

In contrast, our old telco (lets call them ‘Beardie Media’) has miserably failed to transfer our phone numbers.

The end of the phone number is in sight « Baby is 60 – Tim Panton on voice and computers 2009

Beardie Media are struggling to port out the numbers we ported in from Big Telecom to Beardie years ago.

The end of the phone number is in sight « Baby is 60 – Tim Panton on voice and computers 2009

Big Telecom are perfectly happy to move the numbers when they get the correct paperwork from Beardie and our new VoIP supplier.

The end of the phone number is in sight « Baby is 60 – Tim Panton on voice and computers 2009

The people who are dragging their heels are Beardie.

The end of the phone number is in sight « Baby is 60 – Tim Panton on voice and computers 2009

I have four Beardie-Collies myself and started to yarn their hair.

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You, me, Arianna, Cher, Newt, the guy who sells pens at the airport, Jenna and Barbara, Mary-Kate and Ashley, Siegfried and Roy, Top Gun and Beardie and baby Endless-therapi; every one of us.

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