Live, from Pittsburgh.

By britinpitt

Tae a Panther.

Pittsburgh has a long and strong connection to Scotland. Not only was the Big Mac invented here but also the city can lay claim to numerous Famous Sons of Scottish heritage, amongst them steel magnate, philanthropist, and founder and funder of the Carnegie Libraries, Andrew Carnegie, and famous 20th Century avant garde and pop artist, Andy McWarhol.
Here we have a statue of Rabbie Burns, who was Scottish and therefore much appreciated by the good folk of Pittsburgh. His statue is located at what can only be kindly described as the back of the Phipps Conservatory and overlooks a section of Schenley Park known as Panther Hollow. There is no record of panther sightings in the Hollow, so its name remains a mystery.
The greatest poem about panthers was written not by Burns, but by Ogden Nash, who wisely noted:

If you hear a panther
Don't anther.

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