Rethinking the Black Watch Tartan

[beloitpiper]

I'm still not a fan of the Black Watch tartan BUT it's not like I hold a grudge or anything. That's ridiculous. Sure, I tease my Forbes friends about how the Gordons basically took all their land, but there' no hard feelings. It's the same way I don't harbor bad feelings against the South because of the Civil War or England because of the Tea Act during before the Revolution.

I'm living in 2008.

[macwilkin]

It's the same way I don't harbor bad feelings against the South because of the Civil War or England because of the Tea Act during before the Revolution.

I'm living in 2008.

Why should you have any bad feelings toward England over the Tea Act? It was the Sons of Liberty that destroyed private property in that little affair, not the English.

T.

[gilmore]

I haven't yet gotten over the burning of the library of Alexandria.

In fact, I can't hear about the Pangaean Drift without getting a lump in my throat.

What should I do?

But seriously... I had an elderly relative who when he was a boy used to spend the summers on the farm of his grandfather, a Confederate veteran. Every morning the old man would pinch the boy's cheek and tell him, "Abraham Lincoln was a son of a bitch and do you ever forget it." And he never did.

I suppose there are two schools of thought. One is that a carefully nursed vendetta can be a thing of joy forever. The other is that there comes a time to get over it, somehow.

(P.S. My nephews no longer come to visit me. They got tired of the daily cheek pinching. Wimps.)

[Jack Daw]

I'm still not a fan of the Black Watch tartan BUT it's not like I hold a grudge or anything. That's ridiculous. Sure, I tease my Forbes friends about how the Gordons basically took all their land, but there' no hard feelings. It's the same way I don't harbor bad feelings against the South because of the Civil War or England because of the Tea Act during before the Revolution.

I'm living in 2008.

You haven't mentioned receipt of your WPG Gordon. How's it?