[Sca-cooks] odd

[David Friedman]

>That's really fun and interesting to see how old Ethnicities are performed.
>Some years ago I visited a very WASP friend, Barbara, born in Virginia and
>North American for several generations. She lives in Madison, New Jersey,
>and she wanted to introduce us to an old friend, a Scottish gentleman.
>He opened the door and he wore the traditional Scottish kilt and a short
>coat with some Tartan pattern. He explained to us it was the tartan
>belonging to his clane, a typical Highland clane.

You presumably did not explain to him that the system of clan tartans 
was bogus, having been invented by a pair of con men in the early 
19th century?
-- 
David/Cariadoc
www.daviddfriedman.com