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    Re: Y'all folks are like a disease!

    Quote Originally Posted by warrior View Post
    I've only been here a little while and I have already contracted a serious case of jonesing. I am very close to sealing a deal on a kilt. I have contacted artificer about a sporran. Made an order from both stillwater and Rocky. I am getting visions of a mackie bonnet in my near future. I've made a couple inquiries into custom clan badges as well as to another sporran maker. I'm a very sick man!
    I tell you, there isn't a 12-step program for kilt wearers, because we all enjoy our addiction. You will have to live with your condition. After you have gone through your initial phase of trying out various types of kilt, you will start to settle on what you like, sell a bunch of kilts (I admit, I have become a pusher) thus allowing others to become addicted without spending a lot of money.
    I'm now moving into the next phase. I have designed my own tartan and had it woven, and now I'm looking at replacing perfectly good kilts with the specific styles I like, and even considering custom weaves.
    Others get into actually making kilts; still others can't keep themselves from creating sporrans, bonnets and even sgian dubhs.

    Abandon all hope of normalicy, brother, we're doomed to nonconformity.

    FREEDOM!
    EPITAPH: Decades from now, no one will know what my bank balance looked like, it won't matter to anyone what kind of car I drove, nor will anyone care what sort of house I lived in. But the world will be a different place, because I did something so mind bafflingly eccentric that my ruins have become a tourist attraction.

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    Re: Y'all folks are like a disease!

    Quote Originally Posted by warrior View Post
    I've only been here a little while and I have already contracted a serious case of jonesing. I am very close to sealing a deal on a kilt. I have contacted artificer about a sporran. Made an order from both stillwater and Rocky. I am getting visions of a mackie bonnet in my near future. I've made a couple inquiries into custom clan badges as well as to another sporran maker. I'm a very sick man!
    It's terrible isn't it? The worst is - there is no cure. Oh sure, they say they are looking for a cure. They say a breakthrough is just around the corner. And then another tartan pops up and all the good work is gone.

    Oh well, lack-a-day and rue.

    I think I will have another look at those hose.

    Regards

    Chas

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    Re: Y'all folks are like a disease!

    Quote Originally Posted by Nighthawk View Post
    No, no. I like disease.
    If it's going to be a disease, we need a name and recommended course of treatment.

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    Re: Y'all folks are like a disease!

    Welcome to the addiction.

    Resistance is futile!

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    Re: Y'all folks are like a disease!

    A short while after I started my kilt wearing, my daughter's father-in-law expressed the opinion that it was an expression of a mid-life crisis. My wife said, "Well, if so, it's less trouble and expense than a little red sports car and a mistress!"
    Geoff Withnell

    "My comrades, they did never yield, for courage knows no bounds."
    No longer subject to reveille US Marine.

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    Re: Y'all folks are like a disease!

    You can sink knee-deep into your addiction tonight at the Burns Supper. Expect to come away with no cure.
    Jim Killman
    Writer, Philosopher, Teacher of English and Math, Soldier of Fortune, Bon Vivant, Heart Transplant Recipient, Knight of St. Andrew (among other knighthoods)
    Freedom is not free, but the US Marine Corps will pay most of your share.

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    Re: Y'all folks are like a disease!

    May we X Marks-ites and the love of things "kilty" kindly be reclassified from the category of "disease" to something less horrific?

    In this instance, veritably all of life has been spent privately feeling "outside the lowing herd."

    "Need" to be a true dilettante, experiment with and dabble in varied pastimes, hobbies, pursue multiple fields of education...

    ...wear the kilt...

    ...feels less a "disease" than merely another aspect of seeking and ultimately being one's true self.

    After all, "Who would you be" if there was no societal criticism of your benign self-expression?

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    Re: Y'all folks are like a disease!

    Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Withnell View Post
    A short while after I started my kilt wearing, my daughter's father-in-law expressed the opinion that it was an expression of a mid-life crisis. My wife said, "Well, if so, it's less trouble and expense than a little red sports car and a mistress!"
    Your wife is a gem.
    Quote Originally Posted by Pleater View Post
    Weeelll - once I was walking along the row of shops near us and passed a young couple, she was wearing a narrow strip of denim for a skirt and a couple of handkerchieves worth of fabric for a blouse and it was losing the fight to stay closed - I was almost out of earshot when he enquired 'why doesn't your skirt move like that?' Anne the Pleater

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    Re: Y'all folks are like a disease!

    Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Withnell View Post
    A short while after I started my kilt wearing, my daughter's father-in-law expressed the opinion that it was an expression of a mid-life crisis. My wife said, "Well, if so, it's less trouble and expense than a little red sports car and a mistress!"
    that is too funny--i said almost the same thing to my wife.

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    Re: Y'all folks are like a disease!

    You ain't seen nothin' yet......enjoy the kilted ride to the Poor House.
    Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
    Lifetime Member STA. Two time winner of Utilikiltarian of the Month.
    "I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."

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