Re: OT 50 States was: OT: Hemlines

From: Alistair Maclean (alistair_at_ld50macca.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/01/03 

Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:01:15 +0000

In message <joe_zitzelberger-BC5739.22453029112003@corp.supernews.com>,
Joe Zitzelberger <joe_zitzelberger@nospam.com> writes
>> >You do know that the Irish were wearing them 10 centuries before the
>> >Scots made them famous, don't you?
>>
>> No. When?
>
>6th Century, adapted from the roman tunics from what I gather.
>
>Granted, the Scots were wearing them at that time as well, but they were
>all just men in skirts until Englands blood-thirsty ayatollah -- err --
>benevolent monarch -- made the wearing o' the plaid a treasonous crime
>in the mid-18th century.

Bearing in mind that the first mound of clan graves at Culloden is for
the Maclean clan one of the things that makes my blood boil about that
period is how soon after the rebellion my clan were adopting English
names (I have distant relatives called George and William dating from
1800).

>
>Since the law was targeted at Scotland they get the reputation for
>"inventing" the kilt.
>
>Don't people always seem to be more interested in the illegal things
>than the legal... 

-- 
Alistair Maclean
 From the UK tv series "The Kumars at No. 42":
      Grandmother Kumar interviewing Patrick Stewart (Captain
      Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation Starship Enterprise),
           "Why aren't there any Indians in Star Trek?
            Don't you need any IT support?"

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