Xmarks "Kings Speech" thread mentioned in Dublin press

**Tartan Hiker** · 25th January 11, 06:38 PM

And I heard on the TV today that Colin Firth is planning to show up for the awards in a kilt. His actual quote was "It doesn't take much to get me into a kilt" if I remember correctly.

I wonder what tartan? (said with the critical gaze and raised eyebrow of one born to the cognoscenti...)

And if this is true, despite the Kerry mis-step, we may have a new celebrity to fawn over.

**Spartan Tartan** · 25th January 11, 08:42 PM

Looks like I picked just the right time to join this forum. I don't even know what a cognoscenti is, but I'm just glad to be a part

...or am I furious about it?

**BoldHighlander** · 25th January 11, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by Monkey@Arms

The current discussion about the tartan worn in the movie "The King's Speech" http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-speech-63781/ was itself referenced in a news article about the same from the Evening Herald in Ireland.

Cool!

Originally Posted by Detroitpete

It also refers to us as the "kilted cognoscenti". I'm SOOOOOOO adding that to my personal calling card

To be honest I had to look up "cognoscenti" because I wasn't sure of its meaning....I had to be sure that there wasn't any dark, nefarious connotations to it!

**Zardoz** · 25th January 11, 10:37 PM

Over the weekend, I had a fellow movie buff friend ask me if I'd seen the film, (I have not, I'm waiting for it to come to the Drafthouse) just so he could ask me about the kilt! He's not a kilt wearer, but we'd discussed and looked at some of the royal families' tartans after seeing "The Queen". My friend wondered which one was in "The Kings Speech", and he found the whole Irish tartan thing quite funny.

**Arlen** · 26th January 11, 08:08 AM

Originally Posted by Alan H

I don't know about you lads but I'm certainly furious.

Alan, when aren't you furious?

It's nice to see the site get some press. The journalist got things a wee bit out of proportion to my eye, but such is life.

**Tony** · 26th January 11, 08:47 AM

I've decided I'm not furious at the tartan, only mildly peeved.
I am however outraged, furious, seething, boiling and, yes, enraged that the media has not taken me up on my offer to be cognoscent for a fee.

**Jack Daw** · 26th January 11, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by xman

And fury. Apparently we're furious.

I'm the furious-on-the-inside type.

**Jack Daw** · 26th January 11, 09:49 AM

Originally Posted by Zardoz

Over the weekend, I had a fellow movie buff friend ask me if I'd seen the film, (I have not, I'm waiting for it to come to the Drafthouse) just so he could ask me about the kilt! He's not a kilt wearer, but we'd discussed and looked at some of the royal families' tartans after seeing "The Queen". My friend wondered which one was in "The Kings Speech", and he found the whole Irish tartan thing quite funny.

I saw it. I thought it was an okay film. I don't get all the hype about it being OSCAR worthy, though. Colin Firth was asked by one of the TV entertainment shows if he was going to wear a kilt at the OSCAR ceremony (like Mel Gibson and Liam Neesen did in 1996) and he said, it would certainly be ok if he did because the kilt is so "liberating".