Doc Hudson's been talkin' about me

[Kid Cossack]

Gents:

Greetings and salutations from a straight up new guy.

I guess I could sorta kinda blame Doc Hudson for sparking my interest in kilts as something other than historical trivia, but I'm not sure "blame" is the right word.

As Doc said about a typical Southron, I'm Scots, Scots-Irish and English by blood, still a young pup at not even forty yet, married and a father (two very, very nice things to be). I'm just your basic reformed lawyer, former cryptographic Russian linguist, former Marine type guy. Wife is Natasha, daughter Maria Anasatasia (but we call her Masha because that's a handful of name).

Only have a couple of kilts so far---Utilikilt in olive and a purely whimsical Sportkilt in mad Hawai'ian red, oh yes and a Pittsburgh Kilts jobby in the MARPAT digital camouflage pattern. (How could I not?)

Loves 'em, I do.

I find I stand taller, I feel better, and the day goes by smoother when I'm kilted. Oh good gracious, why didn't I know about these before? Must be that vast matriarchal conspiracy to keep men down, I guess.

I go by Kid Cossack because I'm still an ignorant young punk, and because the Russian word "Cossack" (well, 'kazak' if you want to be technical) was lifted from the Turkic languages of Central Asia---it means Free Man or wanderer. I spent two years in Kazakhstan (which is 'kazakh' not 'kazak' and so entirely different) and really enjoyed it, to include wooing winning and marrying the team captain of the women's rugby team of the Central Sporting Committee of the Army of the Republic of Kazakstan.

I haven't done much genealogical research (gee, some members of the family lit a shuck for Texas under some somewhat dubious circumstances). Wasn't sure about a tartan, but I thought, "Four years in the Marine Corps, I'll get olive drab because those are MY CLAN COLORS right there."

We took an Alaskan cruise a few weeks back, and I was kilted every day. Reaction on the boat was pretty good, and ashore in Alaska VERY good. I'm proud of my heritage---but there's lots of different heritages to be proud of, and I figure anyone can wear a kilt. Living in the Gulf Coast of Texas, I believe in comfort, and the kilt gives me that. I'll wear a kilt with Tevas or hiking boots.

Additionally I like single action revolvers, single shot rifles, home brewed beer, Doc Hudson's pepper sauce, John Woo's Hong Kong movies, history and I'm also verging on being a libertarian, with mild anarchistic tendencies.

Like I say, I'm just a NUG----but everyone was, once, and I hope you don't hold my juvenile enthusiasms against me.

Best,

Kid Cossack

[Graham]

Sorry, we can't accept you, you have far too much juvenile enthusiasm for this board, we only accept men over 40 who are in the process of reinventing themselves and have suffered many years of trouser abuse.

only kidding!

Welcome to the board, it sounds like you'll fit right in!
Feel free to ask anything, but don't always expect a serious answer!

[highlandtide]

Priviet Kid Cossack -

Ya ni gavaroo pa Ruski but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express one time.

Welcome to the board!

[Doc Hudson]

Welcome Kid!

Glad to see you join the group, lots of good folks and a few old grumps here.

Has Alsation given you an update on his CSA Memorial Kilt?

[bubba]

Welcome aboard Kid, always room for another kilted gent.

[GMan]

WELCOME Kid!!

It is always great to hear of another kilted Gent. Glad you decided to join this wild and wooly bunch. Looking forward to hearing more of your kilted adventures.

[Freelander Sporrano]

Your very welcome kid...Greetings from Norway

[Rhino]

Welcome Kid, you'll love it here, you've already got loads in common with a lot of us.
Cheers Rhino

[Miah]

Welcome Aboard !

[Kid Cossack]

Gents:

Thanks so much----I've never been much of a joiner, but this looks like a good fit (so to speak). And yes, Miah, I kind of WAS waiting for that "Welcome aboard!"

Ran to Home Depot with a friend down in darkest Pearland, TX this morning, and got a number of odd looks----but I paid them no mind.

Soon as I can I'll get pics up, and switch over to the regular fora. I'm not a real radical, and I don't take a whizz on society by wearing a kilt---it's comfortable, adn I'm all about comfort, sometimes. Plus, oddly enough, wearing a kilt gives me what Mark Twain, in a different context, called the "calm-eyed confidence of a Christian holding four aces." He he.

Kid Cossack