Surprise! The Scots Have No History.

**Freedomlover** · 18th May 08, 12:03 PM

Check this out. It is all I can manage not to...to...to...Arrragh!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...39;s-book.html

I'd love to read your comments.

**ardchoille** · 18th May 08, 12:10 PM

I would be more inclined to believe Matt Newsome: The Early History of the Kilt

**sharpdressedscot** · 18th May 08, 12:14 PM

I think someone is just jealous of the Scots.

**Big Homestead** · 18th May 08, 12:22 PM

Uhm, can we counter claim that pants and underwear were invented by *ahem*, lesser men?

However, it doesn't really matter in the skeem of things. Clearly we have one individual tryin to make a difference and a career by stirring the pot. Whatever the motive, He is allowed to feel how he wants and say how he feels, and we are all aloud to laugh at his statements with the same sentiment.

Laughter is fun. Maybe it's just a really poor french joke he's tryin to pull.

**Coinneach** · 18th May 08, 12:24 PM

Well, it's semi-interesting. After all, thanks to Jules Verne, we know the English were the first to go to the moon, too.

**Finn** · 18th May 08, 12:28 PM

The author died five years ago.
I do think he had been trying to stir controversy, but believe the publishers decided to use wisdom. I hold that the estate found an unscrupulous printer.
The book is egregious.

**Nick the DSM** · 18th May 08, 02:41 PM

well the guy made the phillabeg but he didnt make a kilt.

i'm sure scots would of gotten to it but he just beat em to it.

**McMurdo** · 18th May 08, 02:56 PM

Ah yes the famous Rawlinson argument, this one has been tossed out there time and time again. Personally I like what Matt Newsome has to say on the matter.

http://albanach.org/generations.html

**JRB** · 18th May 08, 03:41 PM

The kilt is a solid and universally accepted part of Scottish highland culture. As far as I'm concerned exactly how it cam about is a moot point. Besides, no one would argue that the modern kilt is an evolution of the belted plaid which definitely was a truly Scottish garment.

**Nick the DSM** · 18th May 08, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

Ah yes the famous Rawlinson argument, this one has been tossed out there time and time again. Personally I like what Matt Newsome has to say on the matter.

http://albanach.org/generations.html

huh, Newsome has got it all doesn't he? amazing!

Ha! beat that!