a voice but not a vote

[Kid Cossack]

Gents, ladies, lads, lassies, rabble and rabblettes:

You get a voice, but not a vote. Or maybe it's a vote but not a deciding vote. Here's the deal. I have been wanting another box pleated four yard kilt, and for some reason I've really wanted one in the (current) regimental 18 oz. weight.

Well, options are somewhat limited in terms of 18 ounce kilting tartan!

They are, so far as I can tell: Black Watch, Cameron of Erracht, Gordon, Mackenzie Seaforth, and Stewarts Hunting and Royal.

What should I choose? I've no real ties to any of them, no real prejudice against the Government Sett, and a blisteringly strong admiration for a fellow who did some yeoman's work (metaphorically speaking) in the Seaforth Highlanders, Fitzroy Maclean.

You may vote for reasons political or personal or aesthetic, you may explain your preference or not as you choose, and you MUST accept that your vote is, as the "How to Kill A Man 50 Ways with a Potato Chip" books all stress, for educational purposes only. If you all vote for tartan x and I don't order it, well, tough noogies, as they say in high school. (Or did, maybe, some time, long long ago.)

[ccga3359]

MacKenzie Seaforth, because it just rolls off of tongue. Oh I mean for political reasons and because it just rolls off of tongue.

[arrogcow]

I vote Cameron of Erracht, it is my favorite of your choices.

Adam

[Tattoo Bradley]

I like the Cameron of Erracht for purely asthetical reasons...

[McMurdo]

Cameron of Erracht gets my vote or if you prefer my voice.

[mcvarmit]

cameron of erracht

slick

[Blu (Ontario)]

Here's another approach...

Method #1

-Select 6 playing cards from a standard deck
-Assign a tartan to each card
-Shuffle
-Toss the cards in the air and let them land on the floor
-Discard the cards that land face up
-If all cards land face up, repeat the toss & discard
-Shuffle the remaining cards
-Toss the cards & discard as before
-Repeat until you're left with a single card

Method #2

-Assign a tartan choice to each of 6 playing cards
-Throw them at a wall and let them land on the floor
-The card that lands closest to the wall decides your tartan

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[Gaisgeil]

For me it would be between Gordon and Cameron of Erracht. I find them both aesthetically pleasing and I know a bit about those regiments. I've got some ancestral ties.
I voted Gordon though since so many seemed to be going with the Cameron.

[macwilkin]

Mackenzie of Seaforth, with Stewart Hunting a close second. The former for the Seaforths, and the latter for the oldest regiment of foot in the British Army, the Royal Scots Regiment.

And the Mackenzie can also honour the man who beat Lewis & Clark to the Pacific by 12 years, Alexander Mackenzie, a forgotten hero.

I am a BIG Seaforth "fan"!

Cheers,

Todd

[turpin]

Gordon - A regiment that will charge the French hanging on to the Cavalry's stirrup deserves consideration. Of course, this was when France had an army folks were concerned about.