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Don't forget that if you are Scottish, odds are you have a clan to which you can claim membership - many of them have American branches that do lots of Scottish type things. Eating haggis and drinking Irn Bru is entirely optional. www.cosca.net
Me? I'm Clan Fraser! 
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03-10-2008, 11:18 AM
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Eating haggis and drinking Irn Bru is entirely optional.
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In Clan McLeod, we'd say that eating haggis -- that "great chieftain o' the puddin-race" -- is a privilege!
As for Irn-Bru, I still prefer Scotland's first national drink. 
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03-10-2008, 11:29 AM
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But Irn Bru is made with GIRDERS!!!
(and yet, it tastes like liquid baby asprin)
I'll take a glass of Blair Atholl, please!
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03-10-2008, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by MysticCat
In Clan McLeod, we'd say that eating haggis -- that "great chieftain o' the puddin-race" -- is a privilege!
As for Irn-Bru, I still prefer Scotland's first national drink. |
McLeod? I had a professor named MacLeod, and on the first day of class, he wrote his name on the board, and said, "The first person who can say my name correctly gets their grade raised one letter." Everyone guessed, but I came up with the correct way. 
This is my clan crest: 
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03-10-2008, 03:17 PM
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McLeod? I had a professor named MacLeod, and on the first day of class, he wrote his name on the board, and said, "The first person who can say my name correctly gets their grade raised one letter." Everyone guessed, but I came up with the correct way. |
LOL. I would expect nothing less of you.
When we were at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games last summer, I told the kids to be on the lookout for the MacLeod tent, but I wouldn't tell them how to spell it. I wanted to see if either of them could figure it out when they saw it. My son did.
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03-10-2008, 09:57 PM
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LOL. I would expect nothing less of you.
When we were at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games last summer, I told the kids to be on the lookout for the MacLeod tent, but I wouldn't tell them how to spell it. I wanted to see if either of them could figure it out when they saw it. My son did. |
Help me out. Do they pronounce it right in the Highlander movies? I can't think of another way that sounds right. 
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03-10-2008, 10:05 PM
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"Daughters of a great and singing nation...."
The very first line of the SAI chorale.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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03-11-2008, 09:32 AM
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"Daughters of a great and singing nation...."
The very first line of the SAI chorale.
Sorry, couldn't resist. |
Kick ass.
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03-11-2008, 09:32 AM
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Help me out. Do they pronounce it right in the Highlander movies? I can't think of another way that sounds right. |
LOL. Yes, think Connor MacLeod ( i.e., MacCloud).
And never mind that Connor is more of an Irish than a Scottish name.
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03-11-2008, 08:25 PM
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LOL. Yes, think Connor MacLeod ( i.e., MacCloud).
And never mind that Connor is more of an Irish than a Scottish name. |
Psh, Duncan's way cooler... and sexier.
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03-10-2008, 10:35 PM
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LOL. I would expect nothing less of you.
When we were at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games last summer, I told the kids to be on the lookout for the MacLeod tent, but I wouldn't tell them how to spell it. I wanted to see if either of them could figure it out when they saw it. My son did. |
Let's hear it for MysticCat, Jr!
I've gone to the Highland games in Ligonier & in Delaplane, but since they "bookend" my birthday, I try to go to whichever one is closer. That way, I can tell a certain someone, "gee, that would look so great..."!
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03-10-2008, 11:57 AM
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I am ready.
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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
Don't forget that if you are Scottish, odds are you have a clan to which you can claim membership - many of them have American branches that do lots of Scottish type things. Eating haggis and drinking Irn Bru is entirely optional. www.cosca.net
Me? I'm Clan Fraser! |
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03-10-2008, 12:03 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
Don't forget that if you are Scottish, odds are you have a clan to which you can claim membership - many of them have American branches that do lots of Scottish type things. Eating haggis and drinking Irn Bru is entirely optional. www.cosca.net
Me? I'm Clan Fraser! |
I'm part of Clan Donald. My brother-in-law's family is also very scottish. At my sister's rehersal dinner, they gave out favors of little bottles of my brother-in-law's clan's whisky with clan Donald whisky tied together with a ribbon in the wedding colors.
My dad is a geneologist by hobby and has helped my aunt get into a few of these orgs, so maybe when my kids are a little older I will look into it more.
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03-10-2008, 12:54 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
Don't forget that if you are Scottish, odds are you have a clan to which you can claim membership - many of them have American branches that do lots of Scottish type things. Eating haggis and drinking Irn Bru is entirely optional. www.cosca.net
Me? I'm Clan Fraser! |
I'm Clan Sinclair - or so I believe because I haven't gotten the name outside of New England. However, there was a rather large Sinclair population in Vermont where my family is from (as well as the Carolinas).
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