"Bagpipes - Weapon of War - 1746" t-shirt

[Dale Seago]

Years ago my son built a functioning scale model mangonel (onager) for a school project. The kit came with a t-shirt that pictured the catapult and these words: "Have You Hurled Today?"

Beautiful!!

[macwilkin]

Actually there are "layers" of potential humor in that shirt, as kissing the dirk is an old custom. From an article I wrote ten years or so ago:



In the well-known paintings of clansmen & tartans by R. R. McIan, the one for MacGregor shows the clansman kissing his dirk -- he looks a wee bit put out, probably swearing an oath of vengeance given the clan's history.

Dale: is this article posted somewhere on the 'net, or would it be possible to get a copy somehow? I am interested in this topic, and I would love to read your article.

Many thanks,

Todd

[Dale Seago]

Dale: is this article posted somewhere on the 'net, or would it be possible to get a copy somehow? I am interested in this topic, and I would love to read your article.

Many thanks,

Todd

You can find it here:

http://swordforum.com/articles/hes/highlandscots.php

Please keep the following in mind: (1) These years later I know a bit more, such as that my late Irish friend's theory about the origin of the word "dirk" is linguistically impossible; and (2) the article isn't meant to be rigorously academic, so no sources & footnotes though what I have there is easily verifiable.

[macwilkin]

You can find it here:

http://swordforum.com/articles/hes/highlandscots.php

Please keep the following in mind: (1) These years later I know a bit more, such as that my late Irish friend's theory about the origin of the word "dirk" is linguistically impossible; and (2) the article isn't meant to be rigorously academic, so no sources & footnotes though what I have there is easily verifiable.

Many thanks, Dale! I look forward to reading it.

T.

[Bugbear]

Look forward to hearing what cajunscot has to say about the article.

[kc8ufv]

This past weekend, I wore my olive UK with a "Bagpipe Hero" tshirt. A few people asked me if that was a real game. Now, to make it one...

[dutchy kilted]

Already done

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euQ7BEPjBj4

[Old Hippie]

It also leaves me wondering how Old Hippie's tepary beans did...

That was a bust. Most of the rest of the beans are going gangbusters, but I suspect we don't get enough heat units up here to really wake up the tepary beans. We got them from a guy who's growing them in Saskatchewan, but anyway...

:ootd:

[Bugbear]

That was a bust. Most of the rest of the beans are going gangbusters, but I suspect we don't get enough heat units up here to really wake up the tepary beans. We got them from a guy who's growing them in Saskatchewan, but anyway...

:ootd:

Ya, I have a study somewhere in my bottomless botanical archive that shows teparies germinate faster in the heat. They're fairly slow growers; mine are creeping along this year. It's too tempting to over water them, though.

I have grown semi bush pintos, right out of the twenty pound grocery store bag, with very little irrigation as a crude experiment, and they can do quite well. I only grow the teparies because they are heirloom and ancient gene pools.

I'm gearing up to take on the casabas and other melons, as well as, the squashes over the next few years.