Leave your Boadswords and Claymores at home

[highland mafia]

Maybe, but you'd be surprised at what some Americans and Canadaians wear to highland games: broadswords, claymores, pistols, dirks, Lochaber axes, machetes, maces...the display can be mind-boggling! I'm sure it is these sorts the constabulary have in mind.

Hey speak for your own side of the border! . I've been going many games all over Canada since I was a kid. This year I'm playing at seven. And I've never seen anyone other then re-enactors with any kind of weapon. To be honest I think it's pretty silly to be decked out in all kinds of stuff like that. After all it's one thing to wear a kilt but come on it's 2009 for goodness sake.

P.S. It's spelt Canadian my Americaian cousin.

[JSFMACLJR]

Hey speak for your own side of the border! . I've been going many games all over Canada since I was a kid. This year I'm playing at seven. And I've never seen anyone other then re-enactors with any kind of weapon. To be honest I think it's pretty silly to be decked out in all kinds of stuff like that. After all it's one thing to wear a kilt but come on it's 2009 for goodness sake.

P.S. It's spelt Canadian my Americaian cousin.

Guess what, Highland Mafia? I was born in Woodstock, Ontario, just up the Governor's Road from London! The extra "a" was a typo. And you know, I've been going to games in Canada since 1963.

While there aren't as many crazies at the Canadian games as there are at the American ones I've attended, I certainly have seen dirks and axes worn and carried by Canadians.

Perhaps we are Canadian cousins!

Cheers,
J. Sandford Fleming MacLean