Joining A Clan?

**Gunnar** · 20th August 08, 03:53 PM

Is it possible to join a clan if you aren't born into one?

**robthehiker** · 20th August 08, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by Gunnar

Is it possible to join a clan if you aren't born into one?

You can join my clan. Yay, now we have TWO members.

**Tommy Hunt** · 20th August 08, 08:11 PM

Originally Posted by robthehiker

You can join my clan. Yay, now we have TWO members.

**auld argonian** · 20th August 08, 03:58 PM

Well, you're already a member of Xmarksthescot...a cyber-clan! ...and we do have our own tartan and clan badge...

I'm sure that several members will chime in on this topic. There are certainly precedents of Clans that welcome new members who are not necessarily connected by ancestry.

Best

AA

**george7** · 20th August 08, 04:45 PM

It is possible. It requires very secretive selection boards that meet in dark caves. Once you are ACTUALLY a member of a Clan, you will then have to tattoo the Clan's crest onto the bottom of your foot. Then you will take an oath of allegiance, passing along all sorts of tourist shop styled clan t-shirts and framed tartan swatches to your descendants.

**sharpdressedscot** · 20th August 08, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by georgeblack7

It is possible. It requires very secretive selection boards that meet in dark caves. Once you are ACTUALLY a member of a Clan, you will then have to tattoo the Clan's crest onto the bottom of your foot. Then you will take an oath of allegiance, passing along all sorts of tourist shop styled clan t-shirts and framed tartan swatches to your descendants.

And if you're going to be a higher status there's goat blood drinking....wait...that's something else.

Perish the thought, I never thought of it.

**Bugbear** · 20th August 08, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by georgeblack7

It is possible. It requires very secretive selection boards that meet in dark caves. Once you are ACTUALLY a member of a Clan, you will then have to tattoo the Clan's crest onto the bottom of your foot. Then you will take an oath of allegiance, passing along all sorts of tourist shop styled clan t-shirts and framed tartan swatches to your descendants.

Originally Posted by sharpdressedscot

And if you're going to be a higher status there's goat blood drinking....wait...that's something else.

Perish the thought, I never thought of it.

Don't forget cutting off the pinky finger with the stone axe.
Whack!! You're a member.

**Friday** · 20th August 08, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

Don't forget cutting off the pinky finger with the stone axe.
Whack!! You're a member.

In my Clan thats how you loose a member.

**GreenDragon** · 26th August 08, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by georgeblack7

It is possible. It requires very secretive selection boards that meet in dark caves. Once you are ACTUALLY a member of a Clan, you will then have to tattoo the Clan's crest onto the bottom of your foot. Then you will take an oath of allegiance, passing along all sorts of tourist shop styled clan t-shirts and framed tartan swatches to your descendants.

I can do all that.

**Geoff Withnell** · 27th August 08, 10:50 AM

Not trying to add any fuel to the fires, but I have for years thought of the USMC as a clan. We are brothers and sisters by blood, even if blood shed, not inherited, we have a tartan, and our clan symbols. And if the Chief (aka the Commandant) were to call us to battle, to battle all of us with the power to respond still in our limbs would go! What say you, follow Xmarks Leathernecks?

Geoff Withnell