Post your tartan - Page 3

BSP_Nicole · #31 02-02-2006, 02:59 PM

Okay, I've got the picts saved, but I don't know how to post them... Can someone help me?

honeychile · #32 02-02-2006, 04:05 PM

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Originally posted by BSP_Nicole
Okay, I've got the picts saved, but I don't know how to post them... Can someone help me?

Quick tutorial:

-Find the photo you want.
-RIGHT click on the photo, and a menu should pop up.
-Click on Properties.
-Scroll down to where it says "Address". It should end in .jpg or .bmp
-Copy it by hitting both Ctrl & c at the same time.
-Go to where you want to post the picture.
-Type in [img], then type both Ctrl & v at the same time (this should paste the address in that spot), then type [/img].
-You can check to make sure you have it by Previewing prior to posting, but it should work!

MysticCat · #33 02-02-2006, 05:08 PM

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Originally posted by BSP_Nicole
Okay, I've got the picts saved

I can't let this pass. "Picts" in a thread about things Scottish.

aephi alum · #34 02-02-2006, 09:04 PM

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Originally posted by MysticCat81
I love haggis -- really, I do. A little Scotch to wash it down, and I'm there.

Haggis = barf. I may be part Scottish but I just can't get my head around the idea of eating what's in haggis.

Scotch = pass the bottle!

honeychile · #35 02-02-2006, 09:28 PM

Mystic Cat - I was going to comment, but I thought it was meant as a double entrendre. If it is, it's a good one!

aephialum - ditto. I have some good Scottish friends, who decided that I really needed to enjoy haggis. I was really embarrassed when I puked over the smell!!

RACooper · #36 02-02-2006, 09:38 PM

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Originally posted by honeychile
aephialum - ditto. I have some good Scottish friends, who decided that I really needed to enjoy haggis. I was really embarrassed when I puked over the smell!!

Don't worry about it... it's a common joke that the haggis was based on a scotch-fueled drunken dare

Unfortunately I managed to miss Robbie Burns this year ~ but thankfully the Celtic Studies department is hosting a single malt workshop/taste-testing in a couple of weeks... so I'll make up for it

bcdphie · #37 02-03-2006, 12:25 PM

I had my annual dose of haggis at the usual Burns Dinner I attend. I don't mind it at all; and my husband and brother love the stuff. The only problem with the one this year, however, there wasn't enough gravy to take away the severe dryness...

It really isn't that bad. If you like stuffing, you'll like Haggis.

In Canada you can't serve "real" haggis, i.e. you aren't allowed to prepare and serve it in a sheep's stomach. Not sure if it's the same in the US.

Burns Night @ VRC

kstar · #38 02-03-2006, 12:56 PM

Here

There is a detailed explanation of the various shaw tartans. There is also a hunting tartan that does not appear on that page.

BSP_Nicole · #39 02-03-2006, 03:14 PM

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Originally posted by honeychile
Mystic Cat - I was going to comment, but I thought it was meant as a double entrendre. If it is, it's a good one!

Nope, sorry, I just meant pictures... I have no idea what you two are talking about otherwise...

BSP_Nicole · #40 02-03-2006, 03:28 PM

Ok, I personally have no Scottish blood, but my husband's family does:

MacArthur:

Morrison:

When we lived in WV, my hubby was in the West Virginia Highlanders. Their tartan was the MacLeod of Lewis Dress tartan (which I personally think is beautiful!).

He bought a Morrison clan kilt pin to wear:

P.S.: Thanks Honeychile for the picture posting help!

honeychile · #41 02-03-2006, 09:34 PM

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Originally posted by BSP_Nicole

P.S.: Thanks Honeychile for the picture posting help!

You're welcome! We have that in our Forum, should you need it again!

Also, you are entitled to wear your husband's tartans, since you are married to him.

I have a few others I could wear, but I tend to stick to the three I showed.

(The Picts were the people of prehistoric Britain!)

Beryana · #42 02-03-2006, 10:47 PM

Honeychile-
It would be okay for me to wear the Sinclair tartan, right? This is assuming that I am able to trace the Sinclair line back to Scotland and not somewhere else. Does it matter the Sinclairname is about 6 Generations back? I'm thinking of adding something about the Sinclairs into my Civil War reenacting persona and that is based on my 3xgreat-grandmother (whose mother's maiden name is Sinclair).

Sarah

aephi alum · #43 02-04-2006, 10:48 AM

I was looking around for other MacLeod tartans (there are a few, including the MacLeod of Lewis that BSP_Nicole posted, which I happen to detest - yellow is so not my color

) - Anyway, I found this:

Crest Cross Stitch

I may just have to get it. Unfortunately I can't figure out if they'll ship to the US...

PhoenixAzul · #44 02-04-2006, 11:19 AM

I had haggis for the first time last weekend. It was DELICIOUS. It tastes nothing like what you think it would. It's quite spicy and very tasty. Seriously, you just have to not think about it too much.

ETA: Badge of Clan Cumming

honeychile · #45 02-04-2006, 01:28 PM

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Originally posted by Beryana
Honeychile-
It would be okay for me to wear the Sinclair tartan, right? This is assuming that I am able to trace the Sinclair line back to Scotland and not somewhere else. Does it matter the Sinclairname is about 6 Generations back? I'm thinking of adding something about the Sinclairs into my Civil War reenacting persona and that is based on my 3xgreat-grandmother (whose mother's maiden name is Sinclair).

Sarah

That's the beauty of SCOTS genealogy - once a Sinclair, always a Sinclair! In most cultures, once a woman marries, she is no longer entitled to wear or use her maiden name's crest or whatever!

I have my Elizabeth Sinclair back to Philly around 1710 - married to a Robert Hunter. Any luck of our being related?