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4th January 12, 03:14 PM
#20
Re: Food For Thought Two(F4T2)
Question #15 do you mind who where's the kilt?
seems to have generated alot of discussion and appears to have been discussed a number of times here previously. I think the choice of answers has as much to do with the perception of who should where the kilt as much as anything.
To give an example of what I'm getting at, a couple years back I had a discussion of this very subject with a bunch of kilted firefighters from Scotland down in Savannah, Georgia for the St. Patty's day parade. The group of firefighters I was with were expressing admiration for the kilts worn by the Scottish group over beers after the parade. By chance almost every firefighter in our group of 8 were of Scot's decent, with fairly common Scottish surnames. At that time only one of our bunch happened to own a kilt back at home. When the it came out in conversation that many of us would like to have a kilt made we were heartily encouraged to "do it" by all of the Scot's bunch. In fact we were encouraged to get kilts made and meet up with them the following year to march together in the parade. It was, in fact, this conversation that convinced me to finally order a kilt.
Now I suppose you could make the arguement that they were likely being polite over beers and didn't want to express their true feelings on the subject and certainly that's possible. But I don't think that was the case and I think they were quite sincere and to that point, the following year when we showed up to march again, one of the first questions asked by a few of the Scottish firefighters was "where's yer kilts"?
In emails back and forth since that time, the question has been asked a few times if "you've had yer kilts made yet"?
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