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    Welcome to the forum! Part of growing up is making decisions for your self... You have made some strong ones! BRAVO!!
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    Welcome Roan. I like that name, any history to it?

    Wear your kilt with pride and if need be, give a brief history lesson of kilts and possible Scots who have settled your area before to those who just don't get it. Seeing something different enough times can sometimes become the "norm." So wear your kilt as often as you can, and at least you can be happy and free!

    DALE.

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    Welcome to XMarks, Roan. The more you wear your kilt in your town, the sooner people will become accustomed to it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sorcererdale
    Welcome Roan. I like that name, any history to it?

    Wear your kilt with pride and if need be, give a brief history lesson of kilts and possible Scots who have settled your area before to those who just don't get it. Seeing something different enough times can sometimes become the "norm." So wear your kilt as often as you can, and at least you can be happy and free!

    DALE.

    Yeah, I was born in ROANoke, Virginia. Roanoke itself has all kinds of stories, including that of the "lost colony" it was possibly named after.

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    Welcome Roan,

    I used to live in Bristol and work in Kingsport and the surrounding hills back in 1971 so I know where you're coming from. Worked for Campbell Ford much to my grandfather Murdoch Macdonald's consternation.

    Stand tall and proud.

    Ron
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    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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    More power to you! You've got all of our support, and we wish you the best!

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    Roan.....Be your own person. If they can't take a joke.........

    They can take a bus! Welcome

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    Welcome aboard, Roan, and let me congratulate you on finding one of the best resouces for the kilted on the web. I hope we meet your expectations as much as I'm sure we'll enjoy having you as a contributor.

    Bryan...used to spend *alot* of time in the north Georgia mountains and the Smokies a few decades ago...

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    Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian
    Cheer up, lad....I live in Chicago and (besides kilts) I often wear either a grey "hoodie" or a baseball jacket with big maple leafs and "CANADA" written across in lage red letters..this usually prompts some dUckhead or another to yell something like: "Hey...go back to Canada! This is America!". Now I am a US citizen but I've been to Canada many times and I really love the place...hence the big ole "Canada" stuff...which is by way of saying that no matter where you go (with the possible exception of Venice, California) SOMEBODY is going to give you grief for dressing out of the "norm".

    I have family in Chicago. It's funny that you sound like you get as much grief for the maple leaf as most people do for a kilt, lol. I've been told I could wear the kilt there without too much trouble, when compared to the region I live in now. (Not that trouble stops me.)

    Canada is one of my dream vacation sorta places, particulary Montreal and Nova Scotia. I have a lot of apreciation for the way their country is run.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roan Carter
    I have family in Chicago. It's funny that you sound like you get as much grief for the maple leaf as most people do for a kilt, lol. I've been told I could wear the kilt there without too much trouble, when compared to the region I live in now. (Not that trouble stops me.)

    Canada is one of my dream vacation sorta places, particulary Montreal and Nova Scotia. I have a lot of apreciation for the way their country is run.
    Yeah...be there on the days when I wear the Maple Leaf hoodie AND the kilt....their little heads are so busy spinning that they are rendered speechless.

    I was at a pipe band competition a few weeks ago that was just over on the next block from me...for once I wan't the only guy in the neighborhood with a kilt. I expect that summer will change the dynamic some...either folks will look and say "Oh, he's keeping cool" or "Jeez...isn't that too hot to wear in this weather?".

    And Montreal is a gas and I've not made it to Nova Scotia but don't pass up a trip to Toronto (or Vancouver, for that matter)...Toronto truly rocks. I was lucky enough to have been in Montreal for the last season of the Expo's and the nice Montreal Tourism folks treated us to a trip to the ball game...yee-hah!

    Best

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