Ashton Kutcher

[Colin]

While "having a meeting" I was flipping through the news edition of In Touch magazine and noticed an article on Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher. In the picture accompaning the article Ashton is wearing a camo kilt. There is also a picture of Robin Williams, Sam Jackson, Vin Desiel and others in a side bar article where they keep refering to kilts as skirts. No excuse for the ignorant.

[Miah]

What Magazine was it and what is the address for it and we can all write them and correct the edditor of the Mag.

[phil h]

bout time we all got over this, a kilt IS a skirt.
says so in all the dictionarys.

[Rigged]

My Webster's also says that a pump is a low shoe without laces or straps.

Yet, when I buy low shoes without laces or straps, I call them loafers and the store clerks seem to know what I mean. If I asked for pumps they'd probably send me to the ladies' shoes department.

So while a "loafer" might be a type of pump, a "pump" is not a loafer. Likewise, a kilt might be a type of skirt, but a "skirt" is not a kilt.

Words mean what people want them to mean.

In the society I live in, this is what people think these words mean:

Loafer:
http://www.zappos.com/n/es/d/722000050.html
Pump:
http://couture.zappos.com/n/es/d/722118709.html
Skirt:
http://www.spiegel.com/shop/thumbnai...tegory_id=1183
Kilt:
http://www.hector-russell.com/kilts1.html

I used Google and did a search on each of the words and used a representative sample of what the search turned up.

I'm also aware that there a people who, for personal, political, or philosophical reasons want to blur or eliminate such distinctions.

Maybe someday I'll be convinced that they're right.

[bubba]

I'll never accept that kilts and skirts are the same thing.

[Jerry]

A kilt is a "Skirtlike" garment which is made for men.

[Bill]

Skirt= a womens'garment
Kilt= a mens' garment

"East is east and West is west and never the twain shall meet" - Rudyard Kipling

Guys I believe we are in danger of beating a dead horse to death -- again.

Bill

[Bill]

P.S. Touch magazine does need to get their ducks in a row about this though. It really raises the hackles when "journalists" make these kind of mistakes. :x

Bill

[mcnice]

at least we have to admit that the kilt has the shape of the better known skirts. no wonder everybody that haven t seen a kilt yet calls so. the big masses... in german language the name of "scots-skirt" (Schottenrock - translated word by word) is the much better name than "kilt.
nobody knows, at least from my experince, that the kilt is wrapped around and allows to spread legs.

i can t understand at all why women accept skirts without freedom of comfortable sitting. we have to liberate them as well ;)

[Dreadbelly]

Words. Go figure. Skirt? Kilt?

All apples are fruit. Not all fruit are apples. All kilts are skirts. Not all skirts are kilts. Here is the logic loop. We could argue all day, but I have the root of the argument at hand. Not much to say now. Hrm. Who wants an apple? Or would you settle for just any old piece of fruit?

Speaking of fruits... Ashton in a kilt? Oh have mercy... **Shudder**

"Dude! Where's my pants?"

Sorry. I am so sorry for the harm I have inflected by making that joke. I take full responsibility for any brain damage caused by said statement.