Are you complete without a Sgian Dubh?

[Panache]

Flashlights, cell phones, bottle openers, toffee hammers, combs, hoof picks, etc. Maybe I'm missing something here, but this is X Marks the SCOT not "gadgets galore". What's wrong with just carrying the traditional sgian dubh?

MoR,

Because an updated nod toward tradition is sometimes more practical / safer / useful than either following that tradition to the letter or letting it die out all together.

Cheers

Jamie

[JRB]

Flashlights, cell phones, bottle openers, toffee hammers, combs, hoof picks, etc. Maybe I'm missing something here, but this is X Marks the SCOT not "gadgets galore". What's wrong with just carrying the traditional sgian dubh?

I can't tell you how many times I've been kilted and wished I had my toffee hammer.

[Jack Daw]

I know a Scotswoman from Aberdeen who makes a wonderful toffee. But, you don't need a hammer as it's soft and delicious! Is there more than one kind of toffee made in Scotland? Scots?

[bowser]

I know a Scotswoman from Aberdeen who makes a wonderful toffee. But, you don't need a hammer as it's soft and delicious! Is there more than one kind of toffee made in Scotland? Scots?

well off topic, but who needs toffee, try tablet !!

[Jack Daw]

Ted, you're neutral on toffee until you've had the real thing.

[Panache]

Does anyone else keep reading this thread's title find themselves imagining Tom Cruise looking lovingly at a Rab Gordon Sgian Dubh and saying:

"You complete me"



Jamie

[Jock Scot]

This way of the world, the carrying of a knife of any sort used to be a non issue and when I used to smoke a pipe, more often than not, I would carry my pipe in my hose top instead, when wearing the kilt.These days carrying a knife is regarded with grave suspicion by the law and rightly so, I am afraid, but I have never heard that common sense has not been applied by the police when it comes to carrying any sort of sensible knife when wearing the kilt.

[Streetcar]

...when I used to smoke a pipe, more often than not, I would carry my pipe in my hose top instead, when wearing the kilt.These days carrying a knife is regarded with grave suspicion by the law...

In Seattle, the display of a dreaded tobacco pipe would elicit a similar bit of suspicion, if not disdain.

[puffer]

In Seattle, the display of a dreaded tobacco pipe would elicit a similar bit of suspicion, if not disdain.

I resemble that Think about my "name"

PUFFER

[Streetcar]

I resemble that Think about my "name"

PUFFER

Hey, I'm a pipe smoker myself so I'm with you!

And that is a beautiful blade you have there. Can I ask where you picked it up?