Originally Posted by DaveC

Let me be the first to wish everyone a happy Tartan Day. Lang may yer lums reek. Or something.

Originally Posted by clydegirl

ye canny shove yer granny aff the bus rofl I haven't heard that in years karma to you for ,took me back

Originally Posted by ScotsmanInTexas

Yes, but I hope you also sing, ye can shove yer other granny aff the bus, ye can shove yer other granny aff the bus etc... etc... Instant revenge on mother-in-laws from hell... hehe

Originally Posted by ScotsmanInTexas

I was just reading news on a BBC website and found something to snigger about:

"First Minister to miss Tartan Day
First Minister Jack McConnell will not be attending this year's Tartan Day celebrations in the US.
The event is celebrated annually in New York with a street parade and will take place on 6 April this year.

Mr McConnell was ridiculed in the press for wearing a pinstripe kilt at last year's event and is rumoured to be missing it due to the general election"

Article in Full at: http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/1/low/scotland/4341031.stm

Well hello sailor! Just goes to show that some people should not wear kilts.

Originally Posted by ScotsmanInTexas

I was just reading news on a BBC website and found something to snigger about:

"First Minister to miss Tartan Day
First Minister Jack McConnell will not be attending this year's Tartan Day celebrations in the US.

Originally Posted by Englishmum

Did you know that in 1988 the US Senate voted to recognise April 6th as "National Tartan Day"?

Yes disturbing isn't it! I think it's complete and utter rubbish and I'm obviously of the Scottish persuasion. I mean if they are going to have such a day then it should be in keeping with the Irish St Patricks day and it could only then be St. Andrews on the 30th November. I don't know why they don't also have a St. Georges Day.

I think Tartan Day was best summed up for me when I heard a TV interviewer interview a lady who turned out for it dressed in a weird gaudy costume - sort of patchwork quilt thing of all kinds of tartanalia (I even spotted bits of a car blanket in there). "I also turn out for St Paddy's day" said she proudly then added I think my Scots-Irish (bullshit Americanism hehe) ancestors lived somewhere along the border???!!! "Well I hope they were good swimmers" replied the interviewer. She looked a little puzzled so he added the border between Scotland and Ireland is the Irish sea!

I mean come on it's a joke. :-D The best example of something like this comes from an Irish friend of mine who was on holiday in NY during St. Patricks day, he said he was actually quite emberassed by it and hated the way they fawned over him as soon as he opened his mouth.

The average American doesn't have a scooby about who they are or where they come from. Many of them are of Generic British (English, Scots, Welsh, Northern Irish), German or East European descent and their names are anything but Irish, but on that day they insist they are Irish etc.. etc... It's a little embarassing when they start this nonsense.

Then of course there's the American lady who told me she'd heard "there's nothing better than marching through the heather with your kilt on". (which sounds oddly enough like a line of an Andy Stewart song) "I see", I replied politely then replied, "Thistles, midgies, nettles and adders would prevent me from ever actually trying that out for myself!". :scared:

But back to Tartan day. There is of course that mockery of a memory of Scottish First Minister Jack McConnell in his erm... 'Scottish' costume of last year. Looking like a complete joke and farce and just a bit camp in his grey skirt! But then as any true Scot will tell you, the Kilt is a highland myth and most of todays tartans were invented by the 19th century weaver Wilson of Bannockburn, as was the then fashion.