Kilt Tragedy!

[billmcc]

Very sad. It looked like a nice kilt.

Halogen lamps aren't especially popular in the US these days because they have been the source of many house fires. Please consider replacing the halogen bulb or, if this isn't possible, the entire lamp.

[Hamish]

My sincere condolences, Robertson. I am wearing my black arm-band as a mark of respect.

[Southern Breeze]

You have my condolances.

[Robin]

Yikes!

[Barclay]

It died a noble death - the death of a warrior in the frontline of the war on bifurcated garments. Let us raise a dram in its memory and in its honour for the courage it showed in the face of the fight...but a kilt never really dies, you know. It will live on.



Glad you weren't wearing it - that would've left a mark. I think I'll be doubly careful wearing PV or acrylic around heat sources now.

[Frank]

It died a noble death - the death of a warrior in the frontline of the war on bifurcated garments. Let us raise a dram in its memory and in its honour for the courage it showed in the face of the fight...but a kilt never really dies, you know. It will live on.

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There are little droplets of Glemorangie in between the keys of my pc keyboard right now - they got there via my nose whilst guffawing...

Well Said !

[Raphael]

aye...

Emma wuz wonderin whit wuid happen if a lit cigarette hit yin o' these poly kilts???

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That's why I am glad that smoking is no longer permitted in pubs!!!

Do you think that it is worth the effort to patch it and use the kilt as a house kilt or doing dirty work around the house?

[Chris Webb]

I have somberly observed a moment of silence .............................

Kilt On.

Chris Webb

[John M.]

Heck yeah, just put a patch on it & you've got a good fence/ house painting ext. kilt.

Am drinking a wee dram of Laphroaig in it's memory.

[Wompet]

Let us bow our heads, and observe a moment of silence ...
Now, judging by the height of the holes - do you know anyone who would like a Black Watch mini-kilt?
(No disrespect intended towards the Black Watch; just the first practical use of the fabric that occurred to me.)

Emma wuz wonderin whit wuid happen if a lit cigarette hit yin o' these poly kilts???

My one brother (who does industrial electrical maintenance, soldering, welding, and other activities involving sparks and flying gobbets of molten metal) have had this discussion more than once. Based on some industrial safety references and personal experiences, the level of flammability of generally available fabrics, least to most, is:

• leather
• hemp
• wool
• cotton
• poly-cotton
• polyester and other poly-blends (including acrylic and PV)

The poly's don't burn as much as melt, as you have unfortunately discovered. And they melt very well, and very quickly. Our father had a poly-cotton hooded jacket that suffered a melted chest and a lost sleeve in a incident with a fuse box, and Dad didn't have contact with the fuse box much over a second or two.

And yet I gave our other brother an acrylic Stillwater ... I think that may have been a very evil attempt on my part to help him quit smoking.