A Vote for Wool

[Bugbear]

Got up this morning, thinking (as usual), and said to myself:

"There is no history so true as the present."

I suspect that others have said something much like this.

I do think about that very often, Tyger. We are, or will be, the history of future people, and we are experiencing and recording things that they will only know through us. Not sure that is quite what you are saying, but…

[Ian.MacAllan]

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If there ever was anything 'historical' in this thread, I missed it. . . .

My point was that the best evidence we have is that kilts were originally made of wool and many of us feel that wool is still the "best" fabric for a kilt, despite its cost.

Thanks to you all for the digressions, especially about smoking. I quit in April of 1977, after 32 years of smoking, and I think quitting was the second wisest thing I have ever done. The wisest, of course, was to marry in 1973.

(No, as far as I know my wife does not read this forum, but no one reaches his eighth decade without taking some precautions.)

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[ForresterModern]

(No, as far as I know my wife does not read this forum, but no one reaches his eighth decade without taking some precautions.)

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Precautions such as making sure the wife does not read the forum, or that, just in case she does, you throw in there a nice compliment about her and your happy marriage?

The wisest, of course, was to marry in 1973.

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There are precautions, and then there are precautions. I get the feeling you are a "belt plus suspenders" kind of guy, always thinking ahead. ;)

[tyger]

My point was that the best evidence we have is that kilts were originally made of wool and many of us feel that wool is still the "best" fabric for a kilt, despite its cost.

Thanks to you all for the digressions, especially about smoking. I quit in April of 1977, after 32 years of smoking, and I think quitting was the second wisest thing I have ever done. The wisest, of course, was to marry in 1973.

(No, as far as I know my wife does not read this forum, but no one reaches his eighth decade without taking some precautions.)

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[chemist93]

I would support a vote for wool due to it's difficult to make an exact replacement for it. Natural wool is still hard to beat by the synthetics.