Stupid Guest Tricks

Scots use Scotts, drink Scotch, and wrap packages with Scotch tape. Heehee.

Zazu wrote:Still not right: The "Scots" are the folk who live in Scotland. "Scotts" lives in the bathroom.

D'oh! :homer: :willie:

Shorty82 wrote:I second this! I so want to go to Scotland and explore my Scottish heritage. I would also love to get a real Scottish kilt.

Wait a minute - I've seen you in a kilt, and have the photo to prove it! (Don't worry, I won't post it). You mean that was a fake kilt? Shorty, I'm so disappointed.

Zazu wrote:Still not right: "Scotts" lives in the bathroom.

Really? To me, that seems an odd place to store it. I personally prefer the garage.



Now, this, on the other hand, would be perfectly appropriate in a bathroom.

Whazzup wrote:Wait a minute - I've seen you in a kilt, and have the photo to prove it! (Don't worry, I won't post it). You mean that was a fake kilt? Shorty, I'm so disappointed.

What I have is an Amerikilt, an American version of the Scottish kilt. What I want is a real, honest-to-God Scottish kilt, preferably in one of the tartans of the clan I'm related to.

CBeilby wrote:Is yours still in the backlog, or just unclaimed?

I honestly have no idea and should probably find out sometime.

Shorty82 wrote:What I have is an Amerikilt, an American version of the Scottish kilt. What I want is a real, honest-to-God Scottish kilt, preferably in one of the tartans of the clan I'm related to.

Okay, thanks for the clarification. I share your Scottish heritage, but I wouldn't know an Amerikilt from a Scottish kilt. In any case, you and your kilt occupy a place of honor in one of my Disney scrapbooks. ;)

Shorty82 wrote:What I have is an Amerikilt, an American version of the Scottish kilt. What I want is a real, honest-to-God Scottish kilt, preferably in one of the tartans of the clan I'm related to.

I remember that kilt! You wore it when we met up at BLT !

lady ulrike wrote:I honestly have no idea and should probably find out sometime.

Try emailing Mistress Tetchubah or Mistress Eowyn.

Every year I buy a bunch of farmer's almanacs; they have lots of interesting stories in them. One of them has the story of the origin of Scotch tape. The company that made tape back then--1920s, I believe--had a type of tape used by painters which had adhesive only on the edges of the tape, not in the middle. When the sales rep came by a contruction site where this tape was being used, one of the disgruntled painters told him, "Why don't you tell those Scotch bosses of yours to put adhesive on the entire tape?" So they did. And this is why it's called Scotch tape. In this instance, Scotch was used to mean cheap or overly thrifty.