How many legs has a Haggis?

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It is also said that drinking that same whiskey increases ones ability to
see Haggis in the wild.

whisky

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Ah yes - thats very correct according to recent folklore.
But think about it for a moment - why has the haggis never been caught ?

I always understood that you could catch a haggis by waiting at the
bottom of a likely slope with a set of bagpipes at the ready. You
wait quietly until you see a haggis traversing the slope. Then you
play the bagpipes, which gives the poor creature sucha fright that it
turns and tries to run the other way. since it then has its long
leg(s) higher up than the short one(s), it loses its balance and
tumbles down the hill into your waiting arms (or a net, if you've had
the forethought to bring one with you).
By the way I'm not sure that the plural of haggis can be haggi. The
-i ending is OK for words like cactus and discus. Haggis belongs to
the Latin 3rd declension (like axis and oasis). Its plural therefore
must be hagges. Sorry to be pedantic, but a serious subject like this
deserves appropriate treatment.

Haggis pre-dates the Roman invasion, so cannot have a Latin root.. The word is actually of Gaelic origin.
I believe that 'haggises', although unweildy, is correct. Some simply say 'haggis'.

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Our local butcher sells vegetarian haggis as well as the usual kind, so
obviously there is more than one breed. Anybody know what the non-veggie
ones eat?
John
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The omniverous haggis eats carrion and stranded hill walkers. This last bit is kept quiet by the Scottish tourist industry for obvious reasons.
The veggie haggis is known to eat fish which it catches in tarns. The vegan haggis eats only locally grown quinoa.

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Our local butcher sells vegetarian haggis as well as the usual kind, so
obviously there is more than one breed. Anybody know what the non-veggie
ones eat?
John
--
Computer 50
The University of Manchester Celebrates the Birth of the Modern Computer
Digital Summer 1998
URL: http://www.computer50.org/

The omniverous haggis eats carrion and stranded hill walkers. This last bit is kept quiet by the Scottish tourist industry for obvious reasons.
The veggie haggis is known to eat fish which it catches in tarns. The vegan haggis eats only locally grown quinoa.

But back to the original question from 1998, I assumed they had three legs not four as was later suggested. Three legs would be much more stable on rough ground. That is why I use a tripod when taking photographs, and not a quadripod.