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28th September 05, 07:14 PM
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Thanks for the link Todd. A main maternal line of mine is Brett, later spelled Britt. I'd always thought of them as English since they came over from England just a few ships after the Mayflower. But one could make a solid case for them coming first to England from Britanny...heck of a way for an Englishman to get a tartan, but what the heck, it works for me 
Ron
Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
Lifetime Member STA. Two time winner of Utilikiltarian of the Month.
"I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."
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30th September 05, 05:48 PM
#2
An interesting article, Sherry - and thanks for re-typing the whole thing!
My experiences when kilted in both France and Belgium were that I have only ever been asked if I am "Écossais", never "Anglais"!
[B][I][U]No. of Kilts[/U][/I][/B][I]:[/I] 102.[I] [B]"[U][B]Title[/B]"[/U][/B][/I]: Lord Hamish Bicknell, Laird of Lochaber / [B][U][I]Life Member:[/I][/U][/B] The Scottish Tartans Authority / [B][U][I]Life Member:[/I][/U][/B] The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society / [U][I][B]Member:[/B][/I][/U] The Ardbeg Committee / [I][B][U]My NEW Photo Album[/U]: [/B][/I][COLOR=purple]Sadly, and with great regret, it seems my extensive and comprehensive album may now have been lost forever![/COLOR]/
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30th September 05, 10:02 PM
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Retyped! Good heavens! It's just copy & paste, Hamish.
I love you guys, but there's only so many hours in a day.
Sherry
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1st October 05, 05:37 PM
#4
 Originally Posted by Sherry
Retyped! Good heavens! It's just copy & paste, Hamish.
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Sherry
Oh, dear! Please don't get all technical, Sherry! I'm just a simple country lad!! ;) ;)
[B][I][U]No. of Kilts[/U][/I][/B][I]:[/I] 102.[I] [B]"[U][B]Title[/B]"[/U][/B][/I]: Lord Hamish Bicknell, Laird of Lochaber / [B][U][I]Life Member:[/I][/U][/B] The Scottish Tartans Authority / [B][U][I]Life Member:[/I][/U][/B] The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society / [U][I][B]Member:[/B][/I][/U] The Ardbeg Committee / [I][B][U]My NEW Photo Album[/U]: [/B][/I][COLOR=purple]Sadly, and with great regret, it seems my extensive and comprehensive album may now have been lost forever![/COLOR]/
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1st October 05, 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Hamish
Oh, dear! Please don't get all technical, Sherry! I'm just a simple country lad!! ;) ;)
But Ham,
You are a simple country lad who happens to be happily kkilted!
Glen McGuire
A Life Lived in Fear, Is a Life Half Lived.
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2nd October 05, 11:57 AM
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Hamish, are you teasing, or should I explain it? If I can do it, anybody can.
I have a Scottish friend who lives in West Texas now, who describes less-than-desirable reactions from the French women when he was in Paris with the Tartan Army for the World Cup.
He tells of a piper friend piping away in the bar, while two of the French bar maids were talking to each other. One of them walks over to the piper, reaches up his kilt, has a feel around, walks back to her companion & says, "Il est libre." My friend said the piper never stopped playing, but he'd never seen a man turn so many shades of red!
They also had trouble with drunken French women trying to reach up their kilts on the street. He was probably drunk, too, but he wasn't amused.
Sherry
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2nd October 05, 01:39 PM
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reminding me of grandad's WW1 stories before mum gets back in the room and stops him...
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3rd October 05, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Hamish
An interesting article, Sherry - and thanks for re-typing the whole thing!
My experiences when kilted in both France and Belgium were that I have only ever been asked if I am "Écossais", never "Anglais"!
Ah, they remember that the Écossais and the French were very
close.
dave
Clan Lamont!
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