Variation on "Are you Scottish?"

**mkmound** · 20th September 05, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by jfellrath

Maybe he wasn't talking about the kilt... maybe you look like someone he knows from New Jersey or something...

Hmmm . . . hadn't thought about it from that angle . . . you have a good point.

Mark

**Kilted_John** · 20th September 05, 02:33 PM

Or the lack of southern accent... ;-)
-J

**mkmound** · 21st September 05, 07:14 AM

Originally Posted by Kilted_John_Sporrano

Or the lack of southern accent... ;-)
-J

But I soytenly don't have a Joisey accent eitha!!! ;-)

Mark

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 21st September 05, 08:55 AM

One day last week I had an equally strange question. Here's the set up -- I was at work, at the SCOTTISH Tartans Museum. I'm standing behind the front counter, in a KILT. A gentleman walks in with his wife. His wife pays to go see the museum, but for one reason or another, he doesn't want to go through. So he sits himself down on the bench in front of the counter, and proceeds to make small talk.

He says, with all sincerity, "Are you 100% Dutch?"

Taken aback by the seeming randsomness of this question, I answer honestly. "No, no I'm not Dutch at all. I'm Scottish and English with a little bit of Irish."

And he proceeds to tell me about some buddy of his that is part Irish, and the question of Scottish heritage, or why on earth he thought I might be Dutch, never comes back up.

Aye,
Matt

**Mike n NC** · 21st September 05, 10:23 AM

It is amazing what passes for intelligent conversation these days. Isn't it? :-(

Mike

**bubba** · 21st September 05, 12:01 PM

The town I live in is heavy with Dutch heritage. I get asked often if I'm Irish when kilted. If it's asked sarcastically I usually ask if they're really Polish.

**arrogcow** · 21st September 05, 12:19 PM

Posted here before, but in the receint past I have been both asked if I was a Druid and if I was a communist. Both because of the kilt.

Adam

**bikercelt1** · 21st September 05, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome

he sits himself down on the bench in front of the counter, and proceeds to make small talk...He says, with all sincerity, "Are you 100% Dutch?"

That's odd, there's a fellow at my church who keeps asking "so you're Dutch, right?" He is from Northern Italy himself, so at first I thought it was some sort of cultural or linguistic confusion but he asks me this at least once a month so I'm not sure what this is about. Maybe some Higland mercenaries invaded Italy by way of Holland????

Jamie

**Archangel** · 21st September 05, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome

One day last week I had an equally strange question. Here's the set up -- I was at work, at the SCOTTISH Tartans Museum. I'm standing behind the front counter, in a KILT. A gentleman walks in with his wife. His wife pays to go see the museum, but for one reason or another, he doesn't want to go through. So he sits himself down on the bench in front of the counter, and proceeds to make small talk.

He says, with all sincerity, "Are you 100% Dutch?"

Taken aback by the seeming randsomness of this question, I answer honestly. "No, no I'm not Dutch at all. I'm Scottish and English with a little bit of Irish."

And he proceeds to tell me about some buddy of his that is part Irish, and the question of Scottish heritage, or why on earth he thought I might be Dutch, never comes back up.

Aye,
Matt

Here's my stab at it: I've had people start a similar line so they can end up making some stupid joke about the tightness of Dutch and Scots, how they invented wire, blah, blah, blah. Maybe your answer was too long and didn't lead into his punchline, which is good for you.