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    Quote Originally Posted by Ayin McFye View Post
    People will approach you and ask "Hey nice kilt, what tartan are ye wearing?" And most people I could probably tell them whatever I wanted and they wouldn't know the difference.
    The only one I can think of is if you claimed a Royal Stewart when it wasn't as that seems to be the most universally known.

    I feel devilish enough sometime to give one an invented name just for my own amusement when somebody asks...

    McFraggle of Golspie for instance!
    [B][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="1"]Reverend Earl Trefor the Sublunary of Kesslington under Ox, Venerable Lord Trefor the Unhyphenated of Much Bottom, Sir Trefor the Corpulent of Leighton in the Bucket, Viscount Mcclef the Portable of Kirkby Overblow.

    Cymru, Yr Alban, Iwerddon, Cernyw, Ynys Manau a Lydaw am byth! Yng Nghiltiau Ynghyd!
    (Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Isle of Man and Brittany forever - united in the Kilts!)[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B]

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    Three cheers for curiosity so courteously expressed!

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    "No man is genuinely happy, married, who has to drink worse whiskey than he used to drink when he was single." ---- H. L. Mencken

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    Quote Originally Posted by McClef View Post
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    McFraggle of Golspie
    I googled that but could not find a pic. Do you have one, As I have family from there. A great, great Grand-Uncle of my much maligned sister's, Vicar's neighbours cat, once removed. Bartholemeow McFraggle of Hourseradish, any relation?

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    The tartan question does pop up once in a while... As soon as I answer with Irish National, or American Heritage, or other generic, interest measuredly drops. If I answer with a clan name, I can count on a bit of lecture on clan history, of some kind, or another, sort of, and very likely, very made up.

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    I got that question the first time I wore my Highland Granite out. In fact, it surprised me more than the usual QUESTION I get. Still, it's always nice to know that some of the rednecks out in my world have some idea....

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    Be patient guys, some of us are still learning ;)

    There's a lot of tartans to memorize out there!!

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    You've just got to love the enthusiasm that the power of the kilt will conjure!
    The Barry

    "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis;
    voca me cum benedictis." -"Dies Irae" (Day of Wrath)

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    What bothers me is when I answer honestly, then the questioner knows more about what I'm talking about than I do.
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