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    Dan R Porter is offline Membership Revoked for repeated rule violations.
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    please

    please explain your clan motto, I unfortunatley sounded it out and it sounds like "I learn to sucker the unfortunate."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan R Porter View Post
    please explain your clan motto, I unfortunatley sounded it out and it sounds like "I learn to sucker the unfortunate."
    Succor:

    –noun 1. help; relief; aid; assistance.
    2. a person or thing that gives help, relief, aid, etc.

    –verb (used with object) 3. to help or relieve.

    Also, especially British, succour.

    Origin:
    1250–1300; (v.) ME sucuren < OF suc(c)urre, socorre < L succurrere to go beneath, run to help, equiv. to suc- suc- + currere to run

    There you go!
    Commissioner of Clan Strachan, Central United States.

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    From the most recent Burns dinner:
    That is the Clan Brown tartan carrying the haggis.

    Commissioner of Clan Strachan, Central United States.

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