Or perhaps it really went wrong with the horrific Better Together TV campaign, in which a poor actress has to look as gormless as possible while explaining how she doesn't really understand politics, being only a humble wee lassie, and therefore she is going to vote "no" just in case her children get eaten by a bear.
"Very good luck to the lassie".
Her cutty-sark, o' Paisley harn That while a lassie she had worn, In longitude tho' sorely scanty, It was her best, and she was vauntie,- Ah! little ken'd thy reverend grannie, That sark she coft for he wee Nannie, Wi' twa pund Scots, ('twas a' her riches), Wad ever grac'd a dance of witches!
Unfortunately the Scottish Labour party is like no other in British history, it was – and in some senses still is - tribal, its habits brutal, resembling rather the Scotland of the days of Macbeth than a normal political party – the only difference being a misogyny so profound that Lady Macbeth would have been dismissed as just another 'wee lassie'.
I was at a place called Crunch in Miami and this quite overweight wee lassie was working out with a trainer, and the trainer stared shouting at her, and she started crying.
"You have no idea what a fortunate lassie you are that we had Mr. Suter on board".
There's a big beguinage in Ghent, which was started by a firm-minded lassie named Jeanne of Constantinople, who may have got the name because her husband went on a crusade.
Somewhere in Hollywood, bewildering, unpredictable, lyrical, probably the most unsettling song about Lassie you'll ever hear.
John Wayne had some shockers too, though in one memorable game he won Lassie from the canine star's desperate owner.Getting seriousWhat would Nixon, Flynn and Wayne have made of poker today?
Though she was soon dropped by Universal, MGM Studios signed her to a contract and cast her in Lassie Come Home (1943).
With "I Love a Lassie" he struck the homely poetic note that gave charm to "When I Get Back Again to Bonnie Scotland" and "Roamin' in the Gloamin'".
