It's a characteristic of the age...everybody is an artist/author/commentator...blame it on the internet and the ease with which one can now use a computer to accomplish something that once took time, a significant investment in materials and skills that sometimes took years to master.

You can go online and make a tartan. Now it's easy so what's to stop anyone from doing it? Anybody and everybody will just do it on a whim. Every sub-sect of every family, every organization, every cause...somebody else has one so we HAVE to have one.

I can only hope that it's just a trend and that it'll lose its novelty and fall by the wayside. We have a high school near me where they print a commemorative t-shirt for just about everything and anything that happens to the school or any of the students and it has become a total JOKE.

I'm sure that a whole lot of these "instant tartans" will just be forgotten in short order but they will be clogging up the Tartan Registry for years. If the Tartan Registry doesn't want to impose any kind of criteria to the registration of tartans, then it's obviously up to them...I guess that it might make them look busy and relevant but I thought that they already had a significant role in the world.

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..and that, I believe, is my 3,000th post...pretty good for a guy with a short attention span, eh?