Kilts at the Olympics

[UmAnOnion]

was at dinner in a pub nearby and saw a tartan out of the corner of my eye on the TV - couldnt hear what was being said but looked good thats for sure!

[mexpiper]

ok guys you beat me to it.. i have looked for pictures of him in his kilt, but no luck. He was also playing the pipes on the segment.
Bruce Mickel is his father.
"...Bruce Mickel led a cheering delegation from Edinburgh that included Finlay's wife, sister and brother. Bruce, decked out in a Buchanan tartan kilt and a Balmoral hat, played the bagpipes. It was all traditional, except for one detail.
"This is the first time in my life that I haven't traveled commando," Bruce Mickel said, referring to how real Scotsmen remain, shall we say, unencumbered beneath the kilt.
He said he learned his lesson from another skiing competition in Italy when the temperature was 14 degrees "and I couldn't speak for a week. That's probably a euphemism. My wife said, 'You better wear your short johns.'?"
Duly clad and protected from the elements" Washington Times (Feb. 13, 2006)

[Zardoz]

I saw that too, The wife and I were at a local pub for dinner tonight when that came on the bar's TVs . It provoked a lot of customers to start asking me if I was a Scot,(no, Irish) and what clan is that tartan, ( Nightstalker, no clan, corporate tartan, blah blah..) etc. :rolleyes: