Is X Marks the Scot a Clan?

[Monkey@Arms]

At ren fairs and other highland events I've seen people with the silk variety of there clan plant. My wife had even located a company online that makes a ton of different varieties of flower and plant from silk. Might have to locate that bookmark from her computer when I get home and post it here.

Here's a couple. Not perfect perhaps, but its a start.


http://tungseng.com/49km014.html


http://cgi.ebay.com/YELLOW-FLOWERS-L...ayphotohosting

Best regards,

Jake

[Riverkilt]

Battle Cry Suggestion: CHARGE!!

As in, buy more kilts, or forward into the fray to wear kilts on the job, or where's the nearest pub...multi-uses and meanings.

Unless someone can say in Latin "smouldering plastic charge card."

And, Opus the penguin always relaxed in a field of dandelions. Maybe we can get Berke Breathed, his artist, to draw up Opus in a kilt laying in a field of dandelions....

Ron

[macsim]

Glad to be a Rabble-ite. I feel a verse of "Kumbaya" coming on.............

[Mark Keeney]

Ditto, dandelion.
Ditto, "Not by blood, but by choice."
However the slightly less confrontational,
Get your own pleats!

Battle cry?
To the Sett!
To the Stripe!

[MacWage]

Battle Cry Suggestion: CHARGE!!

As in, buy more kilts, or forward into the fray to wear kilts on the job, or where's the nearest pub...multi-uses and meanings.

Unless someone can say in Latin "smouldering plastic charge card."

And, Opus the penguin always relaxed in a field of dandelions. Maybe we can get Berke Breathed, his artist, to draw up Opus in a kilt laying in a field of dandelions....

Ron

I missed this discussion, as I was VERY busy the last couple weeks (vacation and work).

Ron, interestingly, "Visa" means "I Charged" and is based on "Veni Vidi Vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered), Julius Caesar, converted into "Veni, Vedi, Visa" ("I came, I saw, I charged).

I like the dandelion badge and the "By choice, not blood" slogan.

The clan chief, well THAT WOULD BE HANK (duh!), as he rules (and OWNS) the roost here, and does a good job at it.

I would agree that we are EFFECTIVELY a "clan" (see signature), but we COULD NOT be a "true" Scottish Clan, unless someone named "X Mark" was born in Scotland. (I know that by Clan MacBubba, which is a recognized Clan SOCIETY, but not a real "clan," as they can't claim a historic "MacBubba" or "Bubba" that fits official requirements.)
(Me being nit-picky.)

[sjrapid]

...I like the dandelion badge and the "By choice, not blood" slogan.

Great, but let's have it in Latin.

(I know that by Clan MacBubba, which is a recognized Clan SOCIETY, but not a real "clan," as they can't claim a historic "MacBubba" or "Bubba" that fits official requirements.)

Neatly put. We're an international clan society, even if we're not a historic clan. This for me encapsulates the thoughts in Panache's excellent post atop this thread.

Best regards

[sporranlegionaire]

In my capacity of (retired) graphic designer, I thought I'd throw this into the melting pot as maybe the starting point of an emblem/badge design...

The leaves obviously make an 'X'. The centre of the leaves are interlinked as a representation of 'brotherhood'. The decided motto I would see as being underneath, across the lower leaves, on a curved panel.

[Mael Coluim]

In my capacity of (retired) graphic designer, I thought I'd throw this into the melting pot as maybe the starting point of an emblem/badge design...

The leaves obviously make an 'X'. The centre of the leaves are interlinked as a representation of 'brotherhood'. The decided motto I would see as being underneath, across the lower leaves, on a curved panel.

AWESOME!

[Hachiman]

Hi folks!

What an amazing feeling, reading thru this thread!

Sporranlegionaire, I like your design! I'd suggest using the traditional garter belt to encircle the emblem, perhaps?

And that motto, "By choice, not blood" is simply excellent!

As for the "clan/not a clan" commentary, well.... sociologists have been discussing the way the Internet has enabled people from every country to find like-minded people and form a 'community'... they aren't classified as a "group" because they are united by a shared purpose, a shared sense of belonging, and a shared sense of identity. I think X-Markers qualify as a community in the sociological sense, and if that's not a clan, I don't know what is!

Now... about that xmarks cloth?

cheers
Hachiman

[davedove]

Battle Cry Suggestion: CHARGE!!

Or, as Wilma and Betty used to say on the Flintstones, "CHARGE IT!!!"