Subject: Llamas and Pirates
Posted by: AnneBonney
Date: Oct 28 08
Welcome to the Llama/Pirate Halloween party. Anything goes here....anything appropriate for this site, that is. :)
Posted by: AnneBonney
Date: Oct 28 08
Welcome to the Llama/Pirate Halloween party. Anything goes here....anything appropriate for this site, that is. :)
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Jabberwok 
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I had 6 at my wedding, whirling and skirling. My MIL asked what the lumps in their socks were, and the answer was 'skien dhu' She was horrified when an uncle happily showed her his...skien dhu. Especially when he said that they were carried in case they met an Englishman. Reply #1861. Jan 01 09, 6:55 PM |
| _Morpheus_
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Talking about an education....whoa Nite Jabberwok, I don't even know how to begin to respond...but I will say that I have a lot of MacGregor in my family line. Reply #1862. Jan 01 09, 8:24 PM |
flopsymopsy
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"It was ordained that the name of MacGregor should be abolished and that the whole persons of that name should renounce their name and take some other name and that they nor none of their name and that they nor none of their posterity should call themselves Gregor or MacGregor under pain of death .... that any person or persons of the said clan who has already renounced their names or hereafter shall renounce their names or if any of their children or posterity shall at any time hereafter assume or take to themselves the name of Gregor or MacGregor .... that every such person or persons assuming or taking to themselves the said name .... shall incurr the pain of death which pain shall be executed upon them without favour." Fortunately for you, RJ, that Act was repealed in 1775! Reply #1863. Jan 01 09, 8:43 PM |
| _Morpheus_
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Yeah, well flopsy I'd say that was just a formality. No MacGregor's are going to renounce their names. The just saved themselves a heap of trouble. Smartest thing they ever did. Reply #1864. Jan 01 09, 9:00 PM |
Blackdresss
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Ah, the pipes the pipes... I do so love the pipes. I'll sing you the "Wee Dan" or maybe it's "Big Dan" who "bleutered him wan in the pan" and "Hey Donald! Whar's yer troooosers?" songs later, once I locate my Scottish glossary. I have to watch "The Dark Knight" right now and see if it's all it's cracked up to be. My poor, poor Heath... Reply #1865. Jan 01 09, 9:29 PM |
| Blackdresss
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P.S. I love kilts. I am almost all Irish, complete with the strawberry blonde hair, the pale skin that never, ever tans, and the freckles, which I have almost outgrown. Will that get me booted off this board? I HATE the sun! Why do you call Morpheus "RJ," or this one of those "We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you" things? Just wondering! More later! Reply #1866. Jan 01 09, 9:33 PM |
| baban
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You'll have to ask RJ ;) I came along to the board and everyone was calling him RJ... Reply #1867. Jan 02 09, 5:08 AM |
| Jabberwok
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So which of the MacGregor tartans would you choose _Morpheus_? http://www.lindaclifford.com/MacGregor.html They're a bit bright for my taste, but then I'm a Johnstone clan offshoot and we're a more subtle lot. You have to be if you're a Border Reiver. Scarlet shows up too much. http://www.scotlandshop.net/designertartanclothing/johnstoneancienttartan.php Reply #1868. Jan 02 09, 5:24 AM |
| Blackdresss
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So Morpheus.... why do they call you RJ? My favorite tartan is Black Watch; second favorite is Campbell, but that's a family thing. Just not my family thing. There is a huge bagpipe festival here every summer up in Estes Park and people come from all over to particpate and march in their kilts and plaids and sporrans, playing their pipes. I have no clue why they decided to have it here, way up in the mountains, but they did. Estes Park, and Rocky Mountain National Park, is about an hour west of me, literally straight up. But to me, having grown up in Glacier National Park, it just looks like a toy park to me, with toy mountains. There is a river here called "The Big Thompson," and the first time I saw this wee, tiny creek, I asked, "So... where is the Little Thompson River?" People just stared at me. Fish out of water. There is simply too much asphalt here for me, and far too many people. But I think we were not supposed to mention "toy mountains," so I apologize for that. But if you've ever seen real ones, those toy ones are just sort of silly. Reply #1869. Jan 02 09, 4:59 PM |
PDAZ
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>>So Morpheus.... why do they call you RJ?<< It's short for Reject... Me -- I like Burberry :-) Reply #1870. Jan 02 09, 5:06 PM |
| Jabberwok
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Blackdresss, anyone is entitled to wear the Black Watch tartan. The Campbells are still very unpopular in many areas of the Highlands as they sided with the English and were responsible for the massacre of 38 members of the MacDonald clan at Glencoe. My father made me study the Highland Clearances when I was 14 because they don't teach it in English schools. Reply #1871. Jan 02 09, 5:11 PM |
| Jabberwok
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PDAZ, wearing Burberry is seen as a very chav thing to do by many in the UK...think trashy footballers wives, and council estate bling. Reply #1872. Jan 02 09, 5:15 PM |
| flopsymopsy
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I'm not sure why RJ, who seems to be a rancher, claims kin with the MacGregors, who were cattle thieves extraordinaire but heyho, there's no accounting for folk. I've been to the Canadian Glacier National Park, isn't that even more sharper and pointier than the US one? You'd probably consider what we call mountains to be, well, something smaller than molehills but they're still lovely to look at, lol. However, I know how you feel, Elle - I remember being shown waterfalls when I lived in Asia that were only trickles over a rock but the natives still thought they were terribly exciting. Reply #1873. Jan 02 09, 5:15 PM |
| Jabberwok
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Rancher, rustler, raider, reiver... Same letter, same animal, just different perceptions. Reply #1874. Jan 02 09, 5:18 PM |
| PDAZ
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Yeah, I know Jabberwok -- I was really bummed to see this on my last trip over there. It's still my favorite, and people here don't make that association, so I can get away with wearing it. Reply #1875. Jan 02 09, 5:19 PM |
| Jabberwok
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One person's geographical marvel is another's ho hum. I feel the same way when Americans talk about history, and something being really old. :) Reply #1876. Jan 02 09, 5:21 PM |
| _Morpheus_
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PDAZ, you guessed it reject. Are you quite sure you are up to a little hurling of insults? Reply #1877. Jan 02 09, 5:27 PM |
| _Morpheus_
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flopsy I think we have exhausted the subject of how great everything is in the UK vs the US....don't you. By the way what do you claim to be? Reply #1878. Jan 02 09, 5:31 PM |
| flopsymopsy
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I claim to be a wabbit, RJ, I'd have thought that was obvious. ;) Reply #1879. Jan 02 09, 5:32 PM |
| Jabberwok
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We have better cheese and more history...you have amazing geography and better teeth. No superiority on either side overall...that's one of the reasons I like travelling and living in different places. Although I do like to end up at home in Sussex. Reply #1880. Jan 02 09, 5:39 PM |
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