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6th September 13, 03:19 PM
#31
SPLENDID suggestion for a bit of cinema on the Sokieski-Stuart brothers!
BBC has done excellent pieces on other demi-obscure UK subjects.
'Would recommend the "History Channel" do one but likely they will not be interested until someone establishes a connection between the S-S brothers and H*tler.
Oh, wait, "Sobieski-Stuart" and Schutz Staffel are both "SS"! Now it can also be a conspiracy!
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6th September 13, 03:53 PM
#32
pants are for sheep. i love my kilt. go chase a bobble.
LitTrog: Bah. You guys with your "knowledge" and "talents." Always taking the legs out from under my ignorant nincompoopery.
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6th September 13, 04:56 PM
#33
Reminds me of the person who in a brusque, rude tone asked (demanded, really) "I don't recognize that tartan - where are you from?" I was in my USAK Casual Leatherneck, btw. "Weehawken", I replied - the town of my birth in New Jersey. "That's in the Highlands, I presume?" he barked. "Of course, right on top of the palisades." I said. He nodded, apparently satisfied, and walked off. The Palisades, btw, are the New Jersey bluffs above the Hudson river, facing New York.
I thought Michele would hurt herself she was laughing so hard.
 Originally Posted by HarveyH
Of course stupidity can work in many directions. I have sat with a man in a Camo kilt when someone has come and asked "what tartan is that?" and given the answer is "er...its Camo, not tartan" to which the response "oh, so is that your clan then?"
Has to be one of the silliest things I have yet to hear.
Ignorance is ok and can be funny - rudeness is not.
Geoff Withnell
"My comrades, they did never yield, for courage knows no bounds."
No longer subject to reveille US Marine.
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6th September 13, 04:59 PM
#34
He probably heard it as "Wee Hawken" -- sounds Scottish enough!
"It's all the same to me, war or peace,
I'm killed in the war or hung during peace."
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6th September 13, 07:08 PM
#35
There is a fine point here as I am pretty sure Rocky registers all his designer tartans with the Tartan Authority. It's as good as a copyright here. Thus all USAK tartans are all officially tartans not just "plaids".
slàinte mhath, Chuck
Originally Posted by MeghanWalker,In answer to Goodgirlgoneplaids challenge:
"My sporran is bigger and hairier than your sporran"
Pants is only a present tense verb here. I once panted, but it's all cool now.
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6th September 13, 08:32 PM
#36
Originally Posted by Geoff Withnell
Reminds me of the person who in a brusque, rude tone asked (demanded, really) "I don't recognize that tartan - where are you from?" I was in my USAK Casual Leatherneck, btw. "Weehawken", I replied - the town of my birth in New Jersey. "That's in the Highlands, I presume?" he barked. "Of course, right on top of the palisades." I said. He nodded, apparently satisfied, and walked off. The Palisades, btw, are the New Jersey bluffs above the Hudson river, facing New York.
I thought Michele would hurt herself she was laughing so hard.
Well done Marine........well done!
Hawk
Shawnee / Anishinabe and Clan Colquhoun
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7th September 13, 06:51 PM
#37
Wow, I'm impressed that he 'didn't recognize the tartan' Wow, so he knows 'every single tartan there is' I take it. Impressive...... LOL
Loved your obviously cool, calm and confident reply. ;)
Originally Posted by Geoff Withnell
Reminds me of the person who in a brusque, rude tone asked (demanded, really) "I don't recognize that tartan - where are you from?" I was in my USAK Casual Leatherneck, btw. "Weehawken", I replied - the town of my birth in New Jersey. "That's in the Highlands, I presume?" he barked. "Of course, right on top of the palisades." I said. He nodded, apparently satisfied, and walked off. The Palisades, btw, are the New Jersey bluffs above the Hudson river, facing New York.
I thought Michele would hurt herself she was laughing so hard.
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7th September 13, 08:46 PM
#38
Originally Posted by Geoff Withnell
Reminds me of the person who in a brusque, rude tone asked (demanded, really) "I don't recognize that tartan - where are you from?" I was in my USAK Casual Leatherneck, btw. "Weehawken", I replied - the town of my birth in New Jersey. "That's in the Highlands, I presume?" he barked. "Of course, right on top of the palisades." I said. He nodded, apparently satisfied, and walked off. The Palisades, btw, are the New Jersey bluffs above the Hudson river, facing New York.
I thought Michele would hurt herself she was laughing so hard.
Reminds me of post 5 in this thread, Geoff 
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7th September 13, 11:02 PM
#39
Originally Posted by opositive
pants are for sheep. i love my kilt. go chase a bobble.
May I please use this line? Oh please, oh please!
"REMEMBER!"
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7th September 13, 11:43 PM
#40
Originally Posted by tundramanq
There is a fine point here as I am pretty sure Rocky registers all his designer tartans with the Tartan Authority. It's as good as a copyright here. Thus all USAK tartans are all officially tartans not just "plaids".
International conventions require copyright to be an automatic right not requiring registration to exist. US law requires registration before you can sue, so you have to register the day before you file suit!
... and plaid is gaelic for blanket, although apparently in the US it has come to mean what we would call a 'check' on the other side of the pond, i.e. any chequered pattern.
ETA: And the ones we write are called checques, not checks
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