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wheres sgt maj williams when you need him?

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Pffft! You'll have to use Drunquis of Queensberry Rules: referee must imbibe two shots for each beer or shot consumed by each contestant. I'm sure you're up to it, Gaz! (look at the welsh kilts debate, hysterical)

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I would have thought that you were incorrect on this and that there would be a higher percent of Americans of French and English descent than German but according to the US Census Bureau, I believe you're correct: http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFIteratedFacts?_event=&geo_id=01000US&_geoContext=01000US&_street=&_county=&_cityTown=&_state=&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010&_submenuId=factsheet_2&ds_name=DEC_2000_SAFF&_ci_nbr=535&qr_name=DEC_2000_SAFF_A1010 =DEC_2000_SAFF_A1010%3A535&_keyword=&_industry=English and French are FAR behind people who self-identify as German and Welsh and Scot far behind that but Irish appears to be the next largest group after German.In my own family background I've found English, Scot and Welsh. I've been told there's native Canadian and French but I haven't found any yet.Of course it's going to be true that Americans have a mix of ancestry, we're not called "the melting pot" for nothing but it can also be surprising how long someone's family can be here and NOT be that mixed. I expected to find more mix in my own background as it starts at the Mayflower but I haven't, so far all British Isles all the way. I think this is interesting and I wonder how much of that is the passing down of custom and manners and inability to tolerate different customs or manners, that "those other people" are so different you don't marry into them, you marry into the people that are familiar and tolerable?

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Now THIS is an Asian in lederhosen, he looks pretty cute to me!

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ROFL! Yes,as a chick, I have to say that men in kilts are, indeed, way HOT!

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I'm sure you're right.

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awwwwwwww, hobbits are cute! and you don't have something against opium, do you, Dave? I'm not sure but I think the hobbit thing comes from some guy's rant about people expecting to come to Wales and see "men's choirs of coal-munching hobbits, singing hymns in four-part harmony." I can't remember where that comes from but I know I laughed like a dog when I read it.

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This is a VERY important subject to me - I want to make being Welsh in the US as recognizable and proud, etc, as being Irish or Scottish and to make that happen, you have to identify things for people to recognize and it AIN'T kilts because that's Scottish in people's minds and Wales is NOT Scotland. So what ARE Welsh things that people will recognize? I think the red dragon - did you know it's Wales' National Bird? I think that's f'ing cool, personally. The Eistedfodd and storytelling, the gift of the spoken word. What else?

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be careful, there's so much MORE where those came from!

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I love the story of your wearing the Henderson tartan and I think that would be a honor to wear and for your children to wear. I'm also some Scottish, MacTamhais, and looking for that tartan to make kilts for my boys (it's frikking expensive!).Are leather kilts uncomfortable? I remember the guy who did the blacksmith demonstration at the Anne Arundel games wore a black leather kilt with a belt for his tools and a little nail and tool bag instead of a sporran and he looked fantastic! (he just looked fantastic anyway, but that only helped)And you're right, there are definitely grey areas in anything, and in the US we figure it out for ourselves -

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Hahaha, sometimes a picture IS worth a thousand words!