Mrs Nae Offence

 MRS NAE OFFENCE 
by Gregor Steele

Gregor Steele’s classic Scots poem in which crabbit Mrs Nae Offence gets sorted oot by Granny. Actor Brian McKigen saw the whole thing.

  Mrs Nae Offence - the poem




 MRS NAE OFFENCE
by Gregor Steele

We cry her Mrs Nae Offence –
That’s whit she likes tae say,
Afore sayin somethin awfie,
Then heidin on her way.

“Nae offence, but see yon skirt ye bocht,
It maks ye look gey fat”
“Nae offence, ye’re like a standard lamp
When ye wear yir new blue hat.”

“Nae offence, but see yir perfume,”
She whitters like a doo,
“It minds me o thae yellae cubes
Ye get in a laddies’ loo.”

“Nae offence, but see yir hairdo,
Ye must hae been a mug
Tae fork oot twenty quid for that –
Ye look like a Pekingese dug.”

It fell upon ma granny
Tae pit her in her place.
Gran skelped her wi a brolly, sayin,
“Nae offence, but shut yir face.”