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Plaidman
Trad climber
West Slope of Powell Butte, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 2, 2018 - 07:22pm PT
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Ok. I’ll get this thread started. The pic is from The Mongolians ascent of Tempest a few years ago. It’s not really a kilt. Just plaid cloth I wrapped around myself.
I never wear a damn thing underneath a kilt as that would be illegal.
I’m surprised how many women try to pull up my kilt whenever I wear one.
I always remind them a guy would never get away with pulling up a woman’s skirt.
Never call a kilt a skirt. If you do I’ll have to kilt you.
Plaid
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Donald Where's Your Troosers?
I've just come down
From the Isle of Skye
I'm not very big and I'm awful shy
And the lassies shout when I go by
Donald, where's your troosers
[Chorus:]
Let the wind blow high
Let the wind blow low
Through the streets
In my kilt, I'll go
All the lassies say hello
Donald, where's your troosers
A lassie took me to a ball
And it was slippery in the hall
And I was feared that I would fall
For I had nae on my troosers
[Repeat chorus]
Now I went down to London Town
And I had some fun in the underground
The ladies turned their heads around
Saying, Donald, where are your trousers
[Repeat chorus]
To wear the kilt is my delight
It is not wrong I know it's right
The Highlanders would get a fright
If they saw me in the trousers
[Repeat chorus]
The lassies want me every one
Well, let them catch me if they can
You canna take the breaks
If a Highland man
And I don't wear the troosers
[Repeat chorus]
Donald, where's your troosers
Donald, where's your troosers
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Do you know why Scotsmen wear kilts?
Because the damn sheep can hear a zipper from a mile away!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oi mate do yah know the difference between an Englishman and a Scotsman?
No Jimmy.
An Englishman says "hey you get off of my cloud......."
and a Scotsman says
"Hey McCloud get off of my ewe."
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zBrown
Ice climber
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What about the bagpipes?
Women playing the bagpipes in plaid kilts at Walkhighlands
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
The fake McCoy from nevernever land.
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Oi, I been meaning to order sone properly patterned plaid pertaining to my parentage.
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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I used to wear a kilt when I guided certain river trips and women customers were always trying to pull it up to see if I was wearing anything underneath. Always thought that was a bit of a double standard, but at least nobody got kilt doing it.
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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So, how did the whole kilt-wearing business get started? Seems more suited to places like Ethiopia or Venezuela, rather than drafty Scotland.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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https://albanach.org/early-history-of-the-kilt-e0c5b0101b5
Fun stuff Plaid. ! I would never venture to peek under a man's kilt (uninvited). So rude!
I was ignorant on the exact history so I googled^^^ I thought they were imported from the mainland but there's evidently no evidence of that.
I also never understood the adoption of a style of dress that leaves so much unprotected skin in such a cold wet country... but what do I know? I've never tromped around in a bog trying to find a sheep or kill an Englishman. 😀 Evidently there are advantages.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Celebrity kilts. SIR Sean Connery at a Dressed To Kilt function and Scottish mystery writer Ian Rankin sporting one as a boy-o.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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^^^"You can take my life, but you can never take my freedom!!"
Nice post, Mouse.
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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It’s difficult to find a hardier bunch than the Scots, IMO.
Scotland is the most poetic countryside I’ve ever seen. Sweet and merciless. The lilt of the lasses melted my heart.
My ex-wife had a kilt made for her while visiting. It was the most wondrous garnet I think she ever owned. The plaids matched up everywhere throughout the folds. Very fetching.
Edinburgh is a great city to live in. I loved it.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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^^^Scots and Russians.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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How big a parrot can a Scotsman keep under his kilt?
Depends on the size of the perch
I have been to Burningman and seen way too many Utilikilts
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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I would never venture to peek under a man's kilt (uninvited). So rude!
LOL
I would never venture to peek under a man's kilt (invited!). So scary!
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TLP
climber
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Oh, thank you much, sycorax. One of the very best of Burns, in its entirety.
Some decades ago, I remember hearing a hilarious song written in the style of a Scottish ballad, recent I believe but am not sure. The protagonist of the song drinks a lot of beer, has a great time, then staggers off and passes out under a gorse bush or whatever. A couple of young lassies happen by and have to satisfy their curiosity about what a Scotsman doesn't wear under his kilt. Confirming their belief, one of them takes a blue ribbon from her hair and ties it there. After the guy awakes and has a raging need to recycle the beer, comes the last line, something to the effect of "I don't know where you've been while I was gone, but I see you won first prize."
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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A Scot was heading home from the pub and had a wee too much to drink. He lay down for a nap.
Two lassie's happened by, and decided to see what he had under his kilt. One of them took the blue ribbon out of her hair, and tied a bow on his tallywacker.
Eventually he woke up and decided he needed to relieve himself.
Looking down, he said, "I don't know where you've been laddie, but you won first prize!"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 14, 2018 - 01:54am PT
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