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Happy Tartan Day! April 6, 2002
New York Post ^ | 2.05.02

Posted on 04/05/2002 3:06:47 PM PST by Coleus

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:05:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

March 30, 2002 -- Break out the haggis - the Scottish are coming!

Actor Sean Connery will lead a brigade of as many as 10,000 bagpipers through the streets of Midtown next weekend to celebrate Tartan Day.

Pipers from 30 countries, including Japan, Australia and Pakistan, are expected to fill the air with rich - and occasionally piercing - notes as organizers try to break the world record for assembling the most pipers in one place.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bsalist; educationnews; europelist; irishlist; newjersey; scottish; tartan; tartanday
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1 posted on 04/05/2002 3:06:47 PM PST by Coleus
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To: Coleus
Reiver bump!
2 posted on 04/05/2002 3:07:48 PM PST by Redcloak
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To: Redcloak; ConservativeNJDad;dbwz;dead;dsb;dyed_in_the_wool;Ed_in_NJ;ELS;Harrison Bergeron; Heff...
OK.
3 posted on 04/05/2002 7:46:10 PM PST by Coleus
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To: Coleus
March 30, 2002 -- Break out the haggis - the Scottish are coming!

Actor Sean Connery will lead a brigade of as many as 10,000 bagpipers through the streets of Midtown next weekend to celebrate Tartan Day.

Does this mean that this is taking place April 6 - tomorrow?

4 posted on 04/05/2002 8:09:49 PM PST by dbwz
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To: Coleus
When is Tart Day?
5 posted on 04/05/2002 8:11:49 PM PST by Consort
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To: Coleus;riley1992
Q. Why do bagpipers walk when they play?

A. To get away from the sound.

Sean Connery and 10,000 other men in kilts, Riley. LOL

Q. Why are they called kilts?

A. Because someone is liable to get "kilt"if they call it a skirt.

6 posted on 04/06/2002 2:03:02 AM PST by Cagey
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To: Cagey
Sean Connery and 10,000 other men in kilts, Riley. LOL

I really have no idea why you flagged me to this. I find nothing appealing whatsoever in either of these.


7 posted on 04/06/2002 2:23:02 AM PST by riley1992
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To: riley1992
Who's the girl dancing in the Doc Martens?
8 posted on 04/06/2002 3:19:14 AM PST by johniegrad
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To: dbwz
Yes, it does.
9 posted on 04/06/2002 9:05:09 AM PST by Coleus
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To: Jimer
>>When is Tart Day?>>

I guess it's any day when you eat tarts, I like apple.

10 posted on 04/06/2002 9:10:23 AM PST by Coleus
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Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, who was descended from a long line of Scots, founded the Sisters of Charity in 1809 in Baltimore. She was canonised by Rome in 1975.
11 posted on 04/06/2002 9:57:53 AM PST by Coleus
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Tartan Day PARADE GETS CITY PIPING HOT FOR SCOTS


12 posted on 04/07/2002 1:58:35 PM PDT by Coleus
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Happy Tartan Day!

Clan MacLaren and the Scouting Connection
About Tartan Day
Famous American Scots
Scots in America
Tartan Day.org
Keeping alive the spirit of Braveheart
Tartan History
Haggis Anyone? It's Delicious, Try Some?
Scottish Council of The Boy Scouts Association
Tartan Day In America
Roundhill Highland 80th-annual games, to be held on June 28th, 2003 at Cranbury Park, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA.
Welcome To Pipers Cove, in Kearny, NJ 07032 USA
Tartan Day Drums Up Support
Tuning up for Tartan Day
In pictures: Tartan Day in New York
Bush pays tribute to the Scots
Scotsarts scene gets Tartan treatment

13 posted on 04/06/2003 2:14:48 PM PDT by Coleus (RU-486 Kills Babies)
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To: Coleus
Here's our RED

and here's our Hunting Blue...


14 posted on 04/06/2003 2:19:46 PM PDT by GRRRRR (Is Baghdad Burning Yet...)
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To: Coleus
Gallant Forty Twa, The

Traditional

You may talk about your Lancers or your Irish Fusiliers
The Aberdeen Militia or the Queen's own Volunteers
Or any other regiment that's lying far awa'
Come give to me the tartan of the Gallant Forty Twa

And strolling through the green fields on a summer day
Watching all the country girls working at the hay
I really was delighted and he stole my heart awa'
When I saw him in the tartan of the Gallant Forty Twa

I never will forget the day his regiment marched past
The pipes they played a lively tune but my heart was aghast
He turned around and smiled farewell and then from far awa'
He waved to me the tartan of the Gallant Forty Twa

And strolling through the green fields on a summer day
Watching all the country girls working at the hay
I really was delighted and he stole my heart awa'
When I saw him in the tartan of the Gallant Forty Twa

Once again I heard the music of the pipers from afar
They tramped and tramped the weary men returning from the war
And as they nearer drew I brushed a woeful tear awa'
To see my bonnie laddie of the Gallant Forty Twa

And strolling through the green fields on a summer day
Watching all the country girls working at the hay
I really was delighted and he stole my heart awa'
When I saw him in the tartan of the Gallant Forty Twa

I really was delighted and he stole my heart awa'
When I saw him in the tartan of the Gallant Forty Twa

15 posted on 04/06/2003 2:37:13 PM PDT by Oschisms (Not a Scot, but I play one on TV)
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To: Coleus
Happy Tartan Day!

to you too (-:
16 posted on 04/06/2003 2:49:03 PM PDT by firewalk (kilts.......)
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To: Coleus
LOL, thanks for posting this. Hubby and I had to wait for this parade to pass yesterday when we were in the city. Didn't know Sean Connery and Ewan Macgregor were there : ( would have like to see the both of them.

Maybe next year!
17 posted on 04/06/2003 2:54:07 PM PDT by jocon307 (The weather, everyone talks about it, no one does anything about it!)
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To: Coleus
Happy Tartan Day, from a member of the Fraser Clan...my daddy always wore a tie, made from the Fraser tartan plaid...when my son went to Scotland, he visited Fraserburg...there was no public transportation up that way, and he was just a poor college exchange student hitchiking around Europe...

So he rented a bicycle, and got to Fraserburg that way...
18 posted on 04/06/2003 3:19:27 PM PDT by andysandmikesmom
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I'm glad he found a way to get there.
19 posted on 04/06/2003 4:25:03 PM PDT by Coleus (RU-486 Kills Babies)
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To: Coleus
Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, who was descended from a long line of Scots, founded the Sisters of Charity in 1809 in Baltimore. She was canonised by Rome in 1975.

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Foundress of the Sisters of Charity and first American-Born Saint

20 posted on 04/06/2003 4:35:57 PM PDT by Coleus (RU-486 Kills Babies)
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