Tartan MIS-identification?

**Riverkilt** · 3rd December 07, 08:46 PM

They always seem to mean so well until they find out they're wrong....they are never wrong....that's their husband's job...

So far, I've been lucky...misidentified guessers have accepted the truth gracefully...but as mentioned I always tack on that "they are very similar" even if I have no clue what the guessed tartan looks like.

And...Arlen...you may have noticed that dementia is rampant in the U.S....something about too many Twinkies and not enough Haggis...

Ron

**Arlen** · 3rd December 07, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

And...Arlen...you may have noticed that dementia is rampant in the U.S....something about too many Twinkies and not enough Haggis...

Ron

I never noticed. I guess I was too busy looking at all of the beautiful American ladies to notice the rest.

**ccga3359** · 3rd December 07, 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by Arlen

I never noticed. I guess I was too busy looking at all of the beautiful American ladies to notice the rest.

He-hem!

**Arlen** · 3rd December 07, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

He-hem!

Wait... what am I saying...

**slohairt** · 3rd December 07, 09:48 PM

Ha! Fake accent, indeed! You're lucky she recognised it as Scottish! My parents' heavy Donegal brogue is invariably misidentified as Newfie (Newfoundlander), Scottish, and even Yorkie, occasionally!

**James MacMillan** · 3rd December 07, 11:58 PM

At the festival that KiltedinUSMC and I went up to visit, while we were walking around looking at the vendors stuff, a gent comes up and says "Hi Mr Nicholson." I must have given him a rather blank look, because he came back with "That's my tartan too."

I didn't know what to say. I was wearing MacQueen. To my eye, they aren't even close.

So I just said, "Oh, small world." He grinned and walked away.

But this one caught me by surprize. Doesn't happen to me that often.

On another note, at one of the vendors booths, the gent selling says "Hi Mr. MacQueen." Now he knew his tartans. But then he was in the business. He was wearing, what I found out was Seaton (Seton?) Hunting, and a nice tartan it was. But I don't remember seeing it before.

The tartan of the day was Black Watch, several variants of it, and many types. Even one that was authentic, but only one that I saw.