re: the sword thing...

...I'm always surprised at the number of thirteen year old kids who are running around at the Highland Games dragging their huge-@$$ Wallace swords around behind them...MY parents never let me have a humongous sword when I was a teen ager!

I'll always excuse the Clan Gunn horde...that's just part of their mission statement and they're GROWNUPS...but even though most of those swords are made for show and not for blow, I don't know what's going on in the parents minds letting these kids run around with any kind of sword-like object.

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AA