Quote Originally Posted by AllenJ
I have also heard from many native Scots that they do get tired of the 'kilts and castles' cliche. It would be if you lived in Texas and everyone kept asking you where your cowboy hat and 6 shooter were. Its to be understood really.
Yer right as rain, AllenJ! I call it the Alamo Effect. There's lots of folks who live in San Antonio, Texas, who have never seen the Alamo ... if yer from there you've seen so many danged plastic Alamo's, pueter Alamos, Alamo snow domes, postcards, inacurate movies and the like that they just don't really care to go ... the Alamo in San Antonio, like the kilt in Scotland, is rolled out for wedding pictures, special occasions and formal events, but no 'real' San Antonian ever goes there 'just for fun.'

I've seen the same danged thing in Fort Worth, Texas, home of the worlds biggest and longest running rodeo in the world ... but go down town on most any night and it's entirely possible that you will not see one single solitary cowboy hat. But just wait for that rodeo, or that wedding, or that 'Denim and Diamonds' ball and you'll see the natives showing up looking just like the rest of the world thinks they are supposed to ... Boots and Hats, BABY!

I used to travel alot and I've always said that it's more fun to be a Texan outside of Texas ... I suppose it could be more fun to be Scottish outside of Scotland too. When I was in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Brussels ... I was all Texan there, they ate it up like butterscotch puddin' and I loved dishing it to'em. But back here in Texas, shoot, people look at ya like yer hairs' on fire if ya dress and act like that during the normal day. They're likely to say, "Ya think yer special, ya yahoo?" And why wouldn't they say that, there's really nothing that special about being a Texan in Texas around everybody else who've grown so danged accustomed to all that makes Texas special to be inclined any longer to really stand up and take notice of it anymore.

Hum, I think I'll put on my cowboy hat with this US Army Tartan SportKilt I'm a wearin' and mosey on down to Walmart ... Texas, Scotland, it don't matter one bit, anyplace in the world is the right place to ...

Kilt On!!

Chris Webb