It's Clan Day at last!! Wear yer Tartan proud

It was nae a complaint I wanted, Lady; a stroll thro' the rye would be more wha' I ha' in mind...
 
cannot find this in my ancestry (mostly Norwegian) does this mean i must show up naked?

i dont mind :D
 
This music would have been appropriate for Clan Day:

Czerny (He cursed by all budding pianists for his studies) Fantasia on Scotch Airs Op 471 played on a contemporary piano.

Og

PS. Oops! I might be related to Zeb Carter, or perhaps not.
 
Hoots mon, there's a moos loose aboot this hoos !

I don't know if that Scots or Tidewater Virginian! Perhaps those Newport News English were just disguised Scots. :eek:

I read George MacDonald once, does that get me an insider seat next Clan Day?
 
I don't know if that Scots or Tidewater Virginian! Perhaps those Newport News English were just disguised Scots. :eek:

I read George MacDonald once, does that get me an insider seat next Clan Day?

Well if you picked my clan member to read, you're a good lass in my books. You can adopt my Tartan anytime.
 
This music would have been appropriate for Clan Day:

Czerny (He cursed by all budding pianists for his studies) Fantasia on Scotch Airs Op 471 played on a contemporary piano.

Og

PS. Oops! I might be related to Zeb Carter, or perhaps not.

The Clark's are from England, not Ireland I found out.
 
The way they spelled it here was without the 'e' but it just may have been dropped for some reason or another.

The dropping of letters in a name was sometimes done as an insult to the clan for disgracing their heritage. Mac's became Mc's and E's were dropped in response to participating in feudal wars and siding with the English. Clarke shoes are very Scottish, Jim Clarke was a well known F1 racer in the 60's, yet I knew a lot of people named Clark that lived in my home town. So spelling variations might be a way of siding with different factions of a clan.
 
The dropping of letters in a name was sometimes done as an insult to the clan for disgracing their heritage. Mac's became Mc's and E's were dropped in response to participating in feudal wars and siding with the English. Clarke shoes are very Scottish, Jim Clarke was a well known F1 racer in the 60's, yet I knew a lot of people named Clark that lived in my home town. So spelling variations might be a way of siding with different factions of a clan.

I met a Clarke this afternoon, working in our local DIY store.

She is of West Indian descent, and the name Clarke goes back to at least the early 18th Century there.

Og

PS. I don't think we are related unless we go back to the origins of humankind in Africa.
 
I met a Clarke this afternoon, working in our local DIY store.

She is of West Indian descent, and the name Clarke goes back to at least the early 18th Century there.

Og

PS. I don't think we are related unless we go back to the origins of humankind in Africa.

Slaves used to take the name of the master as a show of ownership. That's how African's have English, Scottish, Irish and a host of other European names. So even though you might not be related per se, you would have had hereditary ownership of her kin.
 
Mathematically, we all have to be at least 19th cousins (that is, if we go back 20 generations, we all have at least one ancestor in common with everybody else).

So, just call me Tio (that does mean Uncle).
 
I met a Clarke this afternoon, working in our local DIY store.

She is of West Indian descent, and the name Clarke goes back to at least the early 18th Century there.

Og

PS. I don't think we are related unless we go back to the origins of humankind in Africa.

Maybe not but the Clarks I belong too go back to the Revolutionary war...was never told which side they fought on but settled in South Carolina after the war.
 
Where are the kilt pictures, gentlemen? I wanna see some legs!:D

Legs?, What do you want to see legs for? All the good bits are well above the knees. What you should be asking for is pics of Highland men in nothing but a Sporran and a smile.
 
Legs?, What do you want to see legs for? All the good bits are well above the knees. What you should be asking for is pics of Highland men in nothing but a Sporran and a smile.
"Wha' sa the Forty-Second,
Wha' sa and gang awa'
Wha' sa the Forty-Second
Sailin' dun the Bromielaw

Some o' them ha' shoes and stockin's
Some o' them ha' nane of tha'
Some o' them ha' hairy Sporran
Sailin' dun the Bromielaw"

Jus' anither wee ditty fer ye, Lance
 
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