Re: no friends of Charlie's

Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 23:09:51 -0700 (PDT) 

Damned interesting, Paul, thanks.  Remind me to tell you of a few 
interesting moments in Jacobite uprising history in my family.  Oh, and a 
quick bit of trivia: the last regular army to wear kilts into battle were 
the royal Cameron brigade, in, I believe, spring of 1942.

Thor
PS touche.  I feel like, as a contributor to this thread, I'm like the guy 
standing under the "No Loitering" sign, complaining about "scofflaws", 
rushing other along.

>
>One of the most amazing moments in my otherwise uninteresting life occurred
>on Orkney, in the mid-1970s....  I was bicycling around what was then a
>wonderfully remote island, trying to avoid cowpies when I pitched my tent 
>on
>Scapa Flow every night....  There's this UNBELIEVEABLE archeological site
>called MAES HOWE.... (This on the very magical island that is also home to
>the Ring of Brogar and Skarra Brae--please feel free to correct my 
>spelling,
>Scottie.... Gaelic never was my strength.....)
>
>Anyway, back in the mid-70s, you had to knock on the door of a croft not 
>far
>from Kirkwall, wherefrom would emerge a beautiful (Island?) (Highland?)
>(Celtic?) (North British?) (Viking?) lassie with--I swear it!--more of a
>Norwegian accent than anything associated with the British Isles....  She'd
>walk you to the middle of a field.... In the centre of the field was this
>huge, man-made mountain....  It was a Celtic (...but again correct me if 
>I'm
>wrong, Scottie, it may have actually been Pictish....) burial mound....  
>She
>grabbed a naked light bulb on a long extension cord, and on hands and knees
>escorted you to the burial chamber at the end of a long passage, in the 
>very
>centre of the mound....
>Inside, when the naked lightbulb was illuminated, she showed the Viking
>carvings on the walls.... A fabulous dragon..... Norse calligraphy.... or
>actually, graffitti....  "This one says", she quite literally SANG the
>translation--and, as I say, her voice was much more Scandinavian than
>Scottish--"this one says that the wisest man in the western ocean carved 
>it,
>with an ax...."
>
>Orkney was part of Norway until the 16th or 17th century, Thor.... The
>Vikings had vandalized this tomb, and taken away all the treasures....
>
>You come by your name quite honestly....
>
>But what's the point to any friggin' thread?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Paul
>
>
>
>
> >Nevertheless, AGAIN:
> >
> >And the point to this whole silly friggin' thread is.... ?????
> >
> >Thor
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>PS--To quote my good buddy Wm 'MacDuff' Shakespeare:  "Reason not the 
>need!"
>
>I think someone ought to write a good book about the brilliance of
>Shakespeare as an economist.....  Those are four formidable words!  REASON
>NOT THE NEED!  Needs are never rational, right Scottie?  Tears touch those
>parts of life that cannot be explained....
>
>
>


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