Vote for an "X Marks Clan Plant Badge"

[kiltimabar]

Is there any reason why we can't have TWO plant badges, for optional use one at a time or both?

[ozone]

Just to clarify my earlier post, the blue flower pictured is a sky pilot, not deadly nightshade. Anyway, I still vote for something other than a dandelion but I see that I am being rapidly out-voted. Sky pilot! Sky pilot! sky pilot!

[Peter C.]

Although the French call a dandelion "pissenlit", the English name comes from the French "dent de lion", meaning "tooth of lion" because of the shape of the leaves.

That should satisfy people who feel they need something more masculine.

It has my vote

Peter

[McFarkus]

I vote for the dandelion also, as long as we call it the dandelion or Taraxacum officinale, but not the French "pissenlit" (wet the bed).

A flowering weed is just a wildflower growing in a place you don't want it to grow.

[kiltedsawyer]

This all seems much ado about next to nothing.........but I don't see the necessity in limiting our choice to flora not already used by other clans. Being kilted, being different, we seek tolerence and acceptance, one would not go courting with a handful of weeds. Dandelions are weeds and most often seen as a nuisance. This requires some thinking outside the window box. I suggest the mighty oak tree! Strong, useful, slow but steady growing, and with more than a few squirrels and nuts, I think it represents the best of this board, (not that I'm suggesting anyone go courting with an oak tree over their shoulder.) But more to the point, oak leaves have been used for years in military insignia that could easily be adapted via the local army/ navy store. Also, in terms of diversity there are many varieties of oaks; scarlet, white, red, water, willow, pin, to name but a few. They grow in most parts of the world, I think. Well there you have it, exactly two cents worth!

[Panache]

... They grow in most parts of the world, I think. Well there you have it, exactly two cents worth!

But is that before or after taxes?

Cheers

Jamie

[ChattanCat]

I looked for some kilt pins on ebay with dandelions, but couldn't find any. How will we be able to afford something that isn't on ebay?

[kiltedsawyer]

But is that before or after taxes?

Cheers

Jamie

It's 2 cents Jamie, the taxes...............your Scotmans is showing!

[Ozman1944]

Yep Good ol' Pee The Bed, (oops, I mean 'Dandelion', sorry-force of habit). Dandelion has my vote. it is pretty much universal, well, maybe not in the Sahara....

[emolas]

A flowering weed is just a wildflower growing in a place you don't want it to grow.

Dandelions aren't weeds, they are vegetables.