Coat of Arms T-shirt?

[gilmore]

...It is my belief that there is a very special place in hell reserved for people who run Bucket Shops.

Regards

Chas

If I was Dante, I would place next to them those avaricious tartan merchants and ambitious clan societies that come up with lengthy and bogus lists of clan septs in order to peddle tartan and clan memberships to the unwary, selling every Brown, White and Black on the idea that there is a clan membership just for them. My father fell for this several decades ago, leading one nephew to get a huge clan crest that we have no relationship with tattooed on his back, my sister wasting several days in Scotland looking for genealogical connections that don't exist, and another nephew to buy an expensive kilt in a tartan that has no bearing on our family. The latter's father---my brother---now insists that if he gets a kilt it has to match his son's, regardless of it being a mistaken choice.

I was surprised to see a bucket shop at the Greenville, South Carolina, highland games last summer, selling "family" coats of arms right and left. I was disappointed when I got back home to find that there is no way to contact the games' organizers to protest their sponsoring this crime. I have decided not to attend any of these games again. (Well, the 90 degree heat and humidity also played a part.)

[JSFMACLJR]

I was surprised to see a bucket shop at the Greenville, South Carolina, highland games last summer, selling "family" coats of arms right and left. I was disappointed when I got back home to find that there is no way to contact the games' organizers to protest their sponsoring this crime. I have decided not to attend any of these games again. (Well, the 90 degree heat and humidity also played a part.)

I'll brink this to the attention of some of my Society of Scottish Armigers friends, and see what we can do about it.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

I was surprised to see a bucket shop at the Greenville, South Carolina, highland games last summer, selling "family" coats of arms right and left. I was disappointed when I got back home to find that there is no way to contact the games' organizers to protest their sponsoring this crime. I have decided not to attend any of these games again. (Well, the 90 degree heat and humidity also played a part.)

Consider Greenville advised, although I must point out the Greenville Games neither sponsors nor endorses bucket shop heraldry. The problem is, once a vendor sets up, the Games have little or no control over what is sold. That being the case, there isn't much that can be done, given the nature of the games-- it's a one day event-- and pitching someone out on their ear would be more than a little disruptive. But steps can (and have been) taken to see that the offender does not repeat the offense.

Now about the weather... Suck it up! Drink some GatorAide! C'mon back and enjoy the best one-day games in North America! And if you see something that offends you, well... don't look at it. That's, how I deal with ugly folks and white socks!

[fluter]

Now about the weather... Suck it up! Drink some GatorAide! C'mon back and enjoy the best one-day games in North America!

D'you mean to say that it was only 90 degrees? Gosh, I'm sorry I had to miss it. Actually I was already sorry, I had a wonderful time there in 2007.