Variation on "Are you Scottish?"

[mkmound]

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Many of us have gotten asked, "are you Scottish?" . . .
This past week I was at a work-related conference, kilted most of the week. As with many conferences, this one was held in a large hotel, with meals served in one of the large exhibit areas. When you walked in to the meal area, the wait staff was directing people to available tables.

As I walked in to lunch one day (kilted), one of the men directing traffic asked me, "are you from New Jersey?" . . . as I was leaving, he asked, "are you SURE you're not from New Jersey?"

What I found even funnier was that I used the kilt as a visual analogy in a presentation that I gave, as an example of interpretation of an item changing with the context, for example "kilt" in Scotland would give the listener an image of a traditional tartan kilt in various forms, but kilt in Seattle could easily give the listener an image of someone in a Utilikilt (with appropriate pictures) . . .

I can't for the life of me figure out his context . . . ;)

Regards,

Mark

p.s. several of my buddies mentioned that they'd seen someone besides me in a kilt during the week . . . any XMarkers at the DB2 Tech Conference last week?