Quote Originally Posted by MacLowlife View Post
This topic is as reliable as any to spur conversation. I would say that it almost never leads to much enlightenment, , as one might be named Campbell, hail from Canada, reside in the Carolinas, trace your lineage to Caledonia, vacation in Cape Breton, feel deeply about Culloden, and preach as a member of the Clergy. If all of those things are true, but your mother-in-law spends a lot of money to buy you a "Loud MacLeod" kilt to welcome you into her family, what are you going to do? I'd don the yellow and black and preserve the peace is what I'd do.


So, here is my refined p.o.v. on this allnighter topic: Be generous in your expectations of others. Be conservative in your demands on others' tolerance. Be prepared to justify your actions, or at least be entertaining.
M'll
Aye -- or be a veteran of both the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard, or U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps as well as being a member of a law enforcement agency with an adopted tartan (yes, I personally know such people) and have a Scottish surname, be a member of the clergy (already mentioned), reside in a state with an official tartan, graduated from an university with an official tartan, drink a whisky with an associated tartan ... the associations can go on and on and on and just about anyone (I would wager, everyone) can find some tartan to wear to which they are "legitimately" related -- as if there were any kind of rules for any of this other than a sense of personal respect for oneself, others, honesty and common sense.