A man's a man for a' that

Although it is not his birthday until 26th, the ' Burn's suppers have begun.
The Bard shares his birthday with John Cooper-Clark and, I beleive, Kirsty's dad, Ewen McColl. Or should or it should be, they share their birthday with Rabbie.
The is Elphinstone Hall; part of Aberdeen University, where I dropped a couple of guys going out, on expenses, for their corporate Burns night out.

Some oil companies are maybe laying off some staff and contractors, but they stillfind money for their executives to have a swaree.