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    A rival for Hamish!

    Reading in the paper today about a gentleman from Ellon named Jim Callander who is a tartan expert and full time kilt wearer ,he has 98 kilts!! his favourite tartan is MacLaughlin or the Angus District tartan apparently the person who inventedthe central heating radiator wore a kilt and got the idea from the heat in the pleats of the kilt!
    jaggy thistle

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    Which paper was this you were reading Tam?
    If he really is a rival to Hamish we should get them both together for a kilt off of some kind
    The hielan' man he wears the kilt, even when it's snowin';
    He kens na where the wind comes frae,
    But he kens fine where its goin'.

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    I t was in the Sunday Post that I read the article
    jaggy thistle

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    I'll have to look that article up. Perhapse he's Hamish's evil twin.
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    Now which of them will be the first to 100?
    Reverend Earl Trefor the Sublunary of Kesslington under Ox, Venerable Lord Trefor the Unhyphenated of Much Bottom, Sir Trefor the Corpulent of Leighton in the Bucket, Viscount Mcclef the Portable of Kirkby Overblow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McClef View Post
    Now which of them will be the first to 100?
    I'll stick with our own, and say it'll be Hamish.
    'S Rioghal Mo Dhream

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    A rival for Hamish - sorry I don't understand.

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    Chas
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chas View Post
    A rival for Hamish - sorry I don't understand.

    Regards

    Chas
    Our own Hamish has a large collection of kilts. I think he has saved every kilt he has ever owned since his first during the Jacobite Rising. Well maybe not that long.
    Never appeal to a man's better nature. He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. L. Long

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    Impossible, they broke the mold after they made our Hamish..
    Phil in Idaho

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    isnt the painting of the kilt from 1598 one of hamish in his first kilt?
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