[TheForge] Kilts?!

[Jim Pigott]

Nothing like airing out our differences!

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Subject: [TheForge] Kilts?!

Sissy? Nah, I don't think so.

Ask the Germany army, circa 1917. They referred to Scotsmen in kilts as the
"ladies from hell".

I remember reading about a fellow who was shipping back to Britain at the
close of WW2, he was traveling on a troopship around Portugal when they were
hit by a winter storm. He was looking out of a porthole when he thought he
saw a man standing on the deck, despite the cold, sleet, and high winds.
Donning a slicker, he ventured out to see who it might be, and when he could
see, it turned out to be a Scottish soldier. In his kilt, defying nature's
fury.

I don't own or wear them myself, but I don't think of those who do as
sissys. Down here in south Georgia in the summertime, it might prevent the
dreaded crotch rot, since you have a bit more air circulation.

Kent White
(Scot on my daddy's side...the Whytes/Whites were aligned with the Campbells
and the Mac Gregors)
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