Questions

[Diane]

Have a few questions for a Scot. Anyone interested?

[Kelly d]

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HI Diane,

Please feel free to ask your questions. There are many Scots out here who will answer. Welcome to the ES Forum!

[dmf]

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Feel free to ask. We wont bite!!


dmf

[Diane]

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Thanks for welcoming me. Actually I have a lot of questions, but will start with a simple one. What is "haggies" and how exactly is it made.

[Kelly d]

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Diane,

Here is a cute page:)

http://www.electricscotland.com/haggis/

[Diane]

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Thanks for that site Kelly. Needed the smiles. And dmf, I am not real sure you all don't bite. :) Next question is what about kilts???? Why were they originally worn, are they still worn, and of course, what is usually worn or not worn underneath. Just curious.

[Kelly d]

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These are fair questions. :)

Here is a page about the wedding kilt.
http://www.electricscotland.com/weddings/guide11.htm

http://www.electricscotland.com/tartnday.htm

[Diane]

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Wow!!! Kelly you are full of information, thanks. One more question (today at least HaHa), were there really Templars in Scotland in ancient times.

[Kelly d]

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Ohhhh yesh, until they were outlawed by the Pope. KT were all over Europe.

[Diane]

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Hey, me again with another question. If someone was diving for pearls and they said that they had enough for "five fags", what exactly would that mean. I am assuming it means a measure of some sort. Tried to find out the meaning of "fags" but have come up empty.

[Alastair]

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Might mean cigarettes.

[Kelly d]

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Fags or tabs is smokes, cigarettes. Shag is not a dance or a hair cut, fanny is not a woman's name, boot on a car is the trunk, bonnet on a car is a hood, mobile is cell, the UK does not use Z in their spelling and chili here is not Texas chili but picante sauce. The list does go on and on. A kilt was used to distinquish between the clans.

Men wore the kilts and nothing else, they still do.

Kerr is pronounced Car.

That is why I had such a tough time coping, I had to learn all over again. Scottish and Irish men are still the best looking men in the world....
Had to add that since Diane is from Katy Texas.

[Ranald]

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Hi Diane

'five fag's' could well be slang for the amount of air left in the diving cylinder. It would have to be based on the time it took to smoke a fag (cigarette). Should that be the case, then divers would have to know the 'time' for smoking one cigarette.

However I suggest that it was probably used by a diver, as a guide to another diver (or the diving boat crew) as a general guide that there was sufficient air left, so there was not an immediate need to resurface.

Just my interpretation.

Ranald Hi just noticed you were on line........

[Diane]

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Thank you all for your answers. Everything seems to make more sense now. I am sure that Alastair and Ranald would absolutely agree with what Kelly said about the Scottish and Irish being the best men in the world, haha, however, I am not sure why she felt the need to say that just because I am from Texas. I mean, they do say that EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas. Haha. I will ask her tomorrow as my "question fo the day" since I alread asked one today.

[laney]

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Fags mean Cigarettes