Absurd kilt myths

[Frank McGrath]

So..... there really are kilt police??

Brian

Yeah......I'm a kilt cop. BUT, I have never fined anyone because there is usually liquid libation close at hand, and the subject is dropped like a hot potato. I would rather discuss the liquid libation rather than condemn another man's kilt.

[ChromeScholar]

I'm sure in some people's minds there are...

[pdcorlis]

Arlen - that's amazing, simply amazing.

[Arlen]

Matt, that story really did make me laugh out loud.
Sometimes it makes me cringe when I hear fellow Scots insisting they know best just because they are from Scotland.

I will admit, when I was a young teenager I was more than a little like that. Teenage-angsty-know-it-all hormones mixed with anger at the American boy who went to our school and complained about hating Scotland. It wasn't until I was 20 it occured to me that the poor boy had been uprooted from a very happy life and transplanted somewhere that was socially a million miles away.

That said, once you 'grow up' you are generally supposed to have at least manners if not sense.

In a perfect world, eh?


As for being a bastard for having red in your tartan, that's a new one on me!
Doesn't the Balmoral tartan have a wee red stripe in it?

[David Dalglish]

Arlen you have made me afraid to go out now, I hope you feel guilty?

[Jock Scot]

Matt well done, I have never heard that story before!I don't think that I have laughed so much in years!

[Nervous Jock]

So there was a Scotland football match on today and, as such, more than a few people out and about in kilts.
Not being much of a follower of football, I didn't even know there was a game on until after it had finished.

Now, early this evening I took my dog for a walk and was met by a group of kilted, inebriated, middle-aged men coming back from the pub.

'Haw! Whit's that tartan, mate?' Yelled one of them.

'It's not a tartan. It's a tweed kilt.' I replied.

'Whit? It canna' be a kilt if it's no tartan.' He pointed out.

'Actually, it can. Some of the earliest kilts were solid coloured. The Ghillies at Balmoral used to wear only tweed kilts as part of their uniform'

'Nawww. Ye'r mistaken there. You have to wear ye'r ain tartan. If ye don't have one, ye have to wear Black Watch.'

'I see.' Said I. 'And what happens if I wear a kilt that is not one of my clan tartans, exactly?'

'Well, if ye get caught by someone official like a polisman or somebody frae Lord Lyon's court then ye get fined 100 quid! Ye need tae be careful, pal. Ye must only have moved to Scotland when you were wee or ye'd know that.'


Now, here I was blithely unaware that I was breaking some law. That the police and the Lord Lyon who have absolutely no jurisdiction over tartans or kilts were just waiting to thump a big find on me!
I will have to immediately clear all of the kilts out of my wardrobe save for my Macdonald Modern!



Anyone else heard some overly absurd tartan or kilt myths recently?

What a load of bobbins

[Larry124]

I always thought that red was there if there were Communists in the clan….
No reds in the Campbell tartan.


But then I read that before straps and buckles kilts were attached with PINS!
Red makes sense now.

[Nick the DSM]

hahaha, commies in kilts!

maybe the red is from the blood when you stab yourself with the pins? lol wierd thought.

[fluter]

Dang! Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings... a Leonard Cohen song I did not know. Thanks, Jamie!