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    Re: folks asking about the kilt

    Quote Originally Posted by bear@bearkilts.com
    if you can't take a worn out stereotypical jibe like Scots are cheap, then you're probably a bit too sensitive.
    I know about these things. I'm part Irish and if I wasn't drunk, I'd explain it better.
    (Ducks as Jimmy tosses an empty beer bottle.)
    (Only Australians toss full beer bottles.)
    (I'd toss in an American beer bottle jibe here if Americans made anything resembling beer.)

    Now I'm leaving before the Sporranos get here.
    That's what I like about you Bear, you're politically correct enough to alienate everyone equally.

    Jamie
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    Re: folks asking about the kilt

    Quote Originally Posted by bear@bearkilts.com
    if you can't take a worn out stereotypical jibe like Scots are cheap, then you're probably a bit too sensitive.
    I know about these things. I'm part Irish and if I wasn't drunk, I'd explain it better.
    (Ducks as Jimmy tosses an empty beer bottle.)
    (Only Australians toss full beer bottles.)
    (I'd toss in an American beer bottle jibe here if Americans made anything resembling beer.)

    Now I'm leaving before the Sporranos get here.
    That's what I like about you Bear, you're politically correct enough to alienate everyone equally.

    Jamie
    Quondo Omni Flunkus Moritati

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    I don't know why, but sometimes people ask me if I'm Scottish (big black American guy with no discernable foreign accent). So, sometimes I answer, "Yes, I am."

    Then they say, "You can't be Scottish!" To which I drone as dryly as possible, "My original family name is Ramsey, an Anglicisation of Ramsay of the Dalhousie Ramsays. Our clan leader is the Earl of Dalhousie at Brechin Castle in Angus, Scotland. Our family emblem is the unicorn and our family motto is 'Ora et Laborum' meaning 'Pray and Work'."

    Halfway though my speach, their eyes have glazed over they're very sorry they brought it up.

    In fact, my latest victim of the "Are you Scottish? You can't be Scottish!" monologue was at a housewarming party for one of my wife's co-workers.

    The victim was a black woman who was English. After my speach, I added, "Seems I'm as Scottish as you are English."

    She didn't come near me for the rest of the evening.

    If you can't blind them with brilliance or baffle them with b.s., then bore them to tears with details.

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    I don't know why, but sometimes people ask me if I'm Scottish (big black American guy with no discernable foreign accent). So, sometimes I answer, "Yes, I am."

    Then they say, "You can't be Scottish!" To which I drone as dryly as possible, "My original family name is Ramsey, an Anglicisation of Ramsay of the Dalhousie Ramsays. Our clan leader is the Earl of Dalhousie at Brechin Castle in Angus, Scotland. Our family emblem is the unicorn and our family motto is 'Ora et Laborum' meaning 'Pray and Work'."

    Halfway though my speach, their eyes have glazed over they're very sorry they brought it up.

    In fact, my latest victim of the "Are you Scottish? You can't be Scottish!" monologue was at a housewarming party for one of my wife's co-workers.

    The victim was a black woman who was English. After my speach, I added, "Seems I'm as Scottish as you are English."

    She didn't come near me for the rest of the evening.

    If you can't blind them with brilliance or baffle them with b.s., then bore them to tears with details.

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    I don't know why, but sometimes people ask me if I'm Scottish (big black American guy with no discernable foreign accent). So, sometimes I answer, "Yes, I am."

    Then they say, "You can't be Scottish!" To which I drone as dryly as possible, "My original family name is Ramsey, an Anglicisation of Ramsay of the Dalhousie Ramsays. Our clan leader is the Earl of Dalhousie at Brechin Castle in Angus, Scotland. Our family emblem is the unicorn and our family motto is 'Ora et Laborum' meaning 'Pray and Work'."

    Halfway though my speach, their eyes have glazed over they're very sorry they brought it up.

    In fact, my latest victim of the "Are you Scottish? You can't be Scottish!" monologue was at a housewarming party for one of my wife's co-workers.

    The victim was a black woman who was English. After my speach, I added, "Seems I'm as Scottish as you are English."

    She didn't come near me for the rest of the evening.

    If you can't blind them with brilliance or baffle them with b.s., then bore them to tears with details.

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    A tip o' the bonnet tae ye, Rigged, for such a great (and intellectual) way to respond...

    Cheers,

    T.

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    A tip o' the bonnet tae ye, Rigged, for such a great (and intellectual) way to respond...

    Cheers,

    T.

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    A tip o' the bonnet tae ye, Rigged, for such a great (and intellectual) way to respond...

    Cheers,

    T.

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    Re: folks asking about the kilt

    (I'd toss in an American beer bottle jibe here if Americans made anything resembling beer.)

    It's called Shiner Bock.


    http://shiner.com/home.html

    Rob Wright

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    Re: folks asking about the kilt

    (I'd toss in an American beer bottle jibe here if Americans made anything resembling beer.)

    It's called Shiner Bock.


    http://shiner.com/home.html

    Rob Wright

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