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Thread #9274   Message #811229
Posted By: PeteBoom
25-Oct-02 - 01:53 PM
Thread Name: Info Req: Loch Lomond/You Take the High Road
Subject: RE: Loch Lomond/ You Take the High Road
Regarding Legend 4, Twaddle Nil... I'm throwing in my bit on the twaddle side. Most of the folks I've heard (or read) supporting the 2 soldiers/lovers/whatever are seriously into the Brigadoonery I've been working against here in the States for longer than I'd care to admit.

They're the same folks that go on about wearing the "right" tartan for the clan they "belong" to (having paid the $20 fee), and how (Bonnie) Charles Edward was much beloved by his soldiers and respected by his generals and how the bagpipe is a great instrument invented in Scotland and it was banned after Culloden, and suspect that Stonehenge was "built by the Druids". They also find the strict historical accuracy of the films Braveheart and Rob Roy astounding.

If guilt by association, if not inference, is fair game, then the "legend" is pure twaddle.

Have a day -

Pete