I mentioned that I've been watching Monarch of the Glen again, this time via the miracle of streaming TV over Netflix.

The first time through, I was pretty kilt ignorant and I always admit that it was Duncan of MOTG that got me thinking "I should get me one of them there kilts" and that, thankfully, led me to this forum and the collective wisdom of the (at that time) hundreds of kilties that posted here.

First off, I learned that I didn't have to invest several hundred yankee dollars to see if I was going to like the kilt and if I could carry it off. Then I hung around and got to enjoy the repartee.

So last night we watched the season two finale in which Hector hands the Chieftanship of Clan MacDonald over to Archie. Hector is wearing a Balmoral with three eagle feathers in it and Archie is wearing, I think, two in his hat.

So my wife....who can't abide a know-it-all (especially if it's me)...leans over and sez, "Why has Hector got three feathers in his hat?"

Boy...thanks to several loooooong drawn out threads that I remember from a couple of years ago, she got the full wisdom of the Xmarks collective dumped in her lap and now knows more about eagle feathers and balmorals than she ever needed or wanted to know.

So once again, I am an insufferable, long-winded know-it-all (possibly on a par with Cliff Clavin from the TV series Cheers) and my wife will never ask a kilt or Scotland related question again.

And I owe it all to Xmarksthescot!

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AA