What Makes a Kilt Formal?

[creativeaccents]

With the considerable influx of folks from the north into Atlanta, I tend to think in terms of people from the north as northerners, while reserving the still derisive term "Yankee" for those who move to the south while constantly criticizing all things southern and referring to everything of and from the north as somehow inherently superior.

[James MacMillan]

With the considerable influx of folks from the north into Atlanta, I tend to think in terms of people from the north as northerners, while reserving the still derisive term "Yankee" for those who move to the south while constantly criticizing all things southern and referring to everything of and from the north as somehow inherently superior.

Here in California (and everywhere that I have ever lived for that matter) - I tend to call those people As Hoes..........

[sharpdressedscot]

Slight diversion;

To an Englishman a Yankee is an American.

To an American a Yankee is a Northerner.

To a Northerner a Yankee is a New Englander.

To a New Englander a Yankee is a Vermonter.

To a Vermonter a Yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast.


Someone (no clue) told me this once...and its one of the few things I remember at my olde age.

Worse, I don't "get" the joke. Is it somehow funny?

Ron

An' a northerner that goes from New England to Florida then to North Carolina(or Georgia, or South Carolina) is a halfback!

[Nick the DSM]

lol, i forgot about that one!


i think to make a kilt look formal would be a nice jacket and shirt with socks, flashes and sporran. doesnt have to be all blingy and traditional to look nice.

[ccga3359]

Here is the unsupported article from wiki regarding the term "Yankee". It appears the first usage of the term is 1713. My history of the use of the term is from England where we don't recognise the significance of the North & South division. In Britain Americans were also called "Rebels" regardless of where they were because of some 1776 thing. My father used to tell me the tongue in cheek phrase popular during the war;
There are only three things wrong with the Yanks-
Over-sexed,
Over-paid
& Over here!

There have always been nicknames for other countries and I don't think that they are necessarily derisive. Yank, Limey, Pommie, Aussie, Kiwi & Canuck to name but a few. I think they are generally used as good natured terms. No offence intended.

[Chef]

Slight diversion;

To an Englishman a Yankee is an American.

To an American a Yankee is a Northerner.

To a Northerner a Yankee is a New Englander.

To a New Englander a Yankee is an over paid member of the Evil Empire from the Bronx

Thought I would correct it for you.

[Raphael]

I'm sorry that you got a transmorpher for Christmas. I share your pain. When I first came to Canada every kid wore Levi's. Everyone except that homely little English kid with the sticky out ears and crooked teeth. I begged and and pleaded to be allowed to wear jeans and not just any jeans but Levi's. Well my mum, who worked at the Bi-way relented and picked up a pair for me. Chinese made, elastic waistbanded Golden Horse jeans. I got beaten up at school a lot more after that...

Levi's are overrated. I love my jeans from Costco.

[Macman]

I love my jeans from Costco.

Me too! (from one who also had to wear bargain pants with an elastic waist as a boy, but has gotten over the trauma by now wearing kilts).