Apart from the roads, sanitation, education, public health..

[Winston]

You know that scene from Life of Brian?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

We could try it with other peoples instead of the Romans. How about the Scots.

List all the things the Scots have ever done for us.

Kilts

[BeBMan]

Oh, kilts - shut up!

[loinburger]

Funny accents
Frying foods that Man Was Not Meant To Fry

[Winston]

Oh, kilts - shut up!

Whisky

[BeBMan]

Probably they're also responsible for the divide between true and no true scotsman.

[Japher]

The Rankine Cycle

So, apart from fried foods, funny accents, Scotty from Star Trek, scotch, the steam generator, electrical power, trains, and steam boats what have the Scotts ever done for us?

[Saras]

http://www.amazon.com/How-Scots-Invented-Modern-World/dp/0609809997

Oh, and whisky

[-Jrabbit]

Golf

Craig Ferguson

[Asher]

Whisky is definitely their only worthwhile export.

[rah]

I'll have to agree with the golf.
Whiskey second though.

[Kuciwalker]

Whisky is definitely their only worthwhile export.

Nah, they occasionally come up with good actors too.

[-Jrabbit]

There must be more. Um...

Heather?
Gorse?
Gloaming?

[Winston]

Pipers

[MRT144]

Authors.

[-Jrabbit]

Oh yeah -- the caber toss!