Scotland Update and Correction (And a Joke!)

The update: The people of Scotland, apparently too cheap to go their own way, voted down independence yesterday by a wider and more comfortable margin than expected.  Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party, quit both posts after the final numbers came in.

The correction: I wrote in my September 17 post that Scotland was where nuclear missiles were stationed.  The British government, in fact, stations nuclear submarines, not missiles, in Scotland. I regret the error, which has since been corrected.

And now, the joke about how Scots are so cheap:

A Scotswoman's husband dies.  She calls the local newspaper to place an obituary.

"Fine," the obituary editor says, "we charge a dollar a word for each death notice."  

"Print 'Angus died,'" she says.

"Lady," the editor says, "we have a five-word minimum."

"Then," she says, "print 'Angus died.  Car for sale.'"  

:-D