He's confident to the hilt (and online selling kilts)

Philly Inquirer COM ^ | Posted on Wed, Jan. 15, 2003 | By Reid Kanaley

[Riley]

Bet you won't paint your face blue and attack five thousand English footmen with cavalry support and longbowmen, with just your sword... :-)

[Experiment 6-2-6]

I HAVE GOT TO GET ONE OF THOSE!

On every Friday, I wear the aloha shirt, beads, and a lava lava (like a sarong) in the High Court. I thinks a kilt would be cool.

And yes, THEY ARE COMFORTABLE.

[pbear8]

Hey AP!! Yes, Captain PBear does look cute and manly in his kilt. It was great at our wedding, several men wore theirs.

[Riley]

How would an escorting pipe and drum band be received?
(I did read your page)

Sounds like the coolest place to live in the world. Maybe deep-dish pizza and Guiness flown in, packed in dry ice? I can live without the Commie ice cream, but beer and pizza are foods essential to sustaining us computer geeks.

[fnord]

The Scotsman
A Scotsman clad in kilts, left the bar one evening fair
And one could tell by how he walked he'd drunk more than his share
He staggered on until he could no longer keep his feet
then he stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street.
Oh, Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh
Ring di-diddle oh day
He stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street.

Well later on two young and lovely girls just happened by
And one says to the other, with a twinkle in her eye
"Oh see yon sleepy Scotsman, so strong and handsome built?"
" I wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath the kilt."
Oh,Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh
Ring di-diddle- oh day
", I wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath the kilt."

So they creeped up to the sleeping Scotsman, quiet as could be
And they lifted up his kilt above the waist so they could see
And there behold, for them to view, beneath his Scottish skirt,
Twas nothing but what God had blessed him with upon his birth.
Oh Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh
Ring di-diddle-oh day
Twas nothing but what God had blessed him with upon his birth.

Well they marveled for a moment, then one said, "We best be gone."
"But let's leave a present for our friend before we move along."
So as a gift, they left a blue silk ribbon tied into a bow
Around the bonnie star the Scot's kilt lifted showed.
Oh Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh
Ring di-diddlee-oh day
Around the bonnie star the Scot's kilt lifted show.

When the Scotsman woke to nature's call, he stumbled towards the trees
Behind the bush, he lifts his kilt, and he gawks at what he sees,
And in a startled voice, he says to what's before his eyes,
"My friend, I don't know where you've been, but I see you won first prize!
Oh Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh
Ring di-diddlee-oh day
"My friend, I don't know where you've been, but I see you won first prize!"

[jude24]

Or you could be like the one scottish clan that fought in blue paint. JUST blue paint. The Romans were terrified by those "barbarians."

[Alkhin]

Huh. nice pic...have seen that one before...

Look, kilts were from the Roman times AT LEAST...considering men havent gone through a radical fashion change in some time, I think its WELL past due for a shakeup...and an item of clothing the conjures up the masculinity of the Scottish is exciting. Much better than the dowdy suits and hideous slacker items that are out there...at least there is some class and formality and simplicity involved in the kilt.

you can make fun of me all you like...to me, a woman, a kilt is sexy!

[zygoat]

Sorry-I may be considered xenophobic or jingoistic or whatever but I don't do sheep entrails OR skirts.

[orbital]

Haggis is actually quite a nice dish, although I'd suggest a substitute for British beef (CJD).

[Riley]

Picti Celts?

[Rebelbase]

LOL!

[Malacoda]

According to my dad, everyone knows that "sporran" is actually Gaelic for "ball protector."

(He and his parents are straight off the boat, from Clydesbank, Glasgow.)

And his invariable response to "what to Scootish men wear under their kilts?" is, "On a good day -- lipstick!"

[.30Carbine]

Si vous portiez déjà un kilt, mon Scotsman préféré, vous sauriez qu'il n'est pas sage d'oser une Française.

[Keyes2000mt]

a Burmese guy- wears his native sarong, he gets a lot of stares.

The reason is that the sarong is less well known as a man's garment in the United States unless you watched McHale's Navy.

[Prodigal Son]

But I'm in the UK... ;-)

[Keyes2000mt]

You're right, it's a little more accepted over there. Sarong is of non-western origin though.