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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Tht was very funny :)  ..........bobford

p.s. does your outfit include one of those big wooded mallets for boppin' 
heads?


--- On Wed, 10/8/08, rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com> wrote:

> From: rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Padruig McTavish, was What if OBama
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 4:08 PM
> Padruig is a very early versoin of the name Patrick.   I
> have always 
> liked that name.   The time period and location I chose for
> my 
> "persona", if you will, is mid 13th century (app
> 1242), highland 
> Scotland.   I've always liked scotland, for some
> reason.   Don't really 
> know why.   Perhaps the fierce independant nature of the
> early scots?  
> I think this is one reason I am a big fan of Patrick
> Stewart  ;-)
> 
> Anyway, The Irish gaelic version of Patrick is Padruig.  
> There was 
> contact between Ireland and Scotland at the time, so names
> also crossed 
> borders, making it a period name.  It is pronounced similar
> to pad- 
> dregg, with a rolled "R", and emphasis on the 2nd
> syllable.
> 
> The McTavish, while a bit later in period, comes from a
> favorite joke.  
>  it follows...
> 
> Sandy McTavish was walking the Macy's basement sale
> when, before his 
> eyes on the sale table, was a bolt of the McTavish tartan!
> He'd been in 
> New York for about six years and his kilt showed it, so the
> need was 
> there, the price was right and he approached the sales
> clerk (you'll 
> have to supply your own Scottish burr).
> "Lassie, Ey'd like a yayrd an a haf o' the
> McTavish tartin"
> "Beg your pardon sir?"
> "Yaryrd an a haf o' the McTavish tartin, I'm
> needin' a new kilt"
> "I'm sorry sir, you'll have to show me the
> material you mean"
> So he walked her over to the sale table and showed her what
> he wanted.
> "Sorry sir, that plaid only comes in three yard
> lengths"
> "Ya dunna understand lassie, I dunna need three
> yayrds, I need a yayrd 
> an a haf"
> "I'm sorry sir, you don't understand, that
> plaid comes in three yard 
> lengths, why not take a yard and a half, make your kilt,
> and take the 
> other yard and a half and make a scarf for your girl
> friend?"
> It was clear that Sandy needed a new kilt and that he was
> going to have 
> to buy three yards if he was going to get the McTavish
> tartan...
> "All ryut, I'll buy the thrree yayrds!"
> He did and went home, made a new kilt and a scarf for his
> girl friend. 
> He was so pleased with his new kilt that he decided
> he'd go over and 
> show it to her and let the scarf be a surprise. As he was
> running over 
> to her house he forgot that the pattern he'd used was
> over six years 
> old and he'd lost some forty pounds in the mean time
> (two stone?). As a 
> result, the new kilt slipped down off his waist, over his
> hips and was 
> gone. He got to her door and knocked.
> She saw him in the window and opened the door and as she
> did, he threw 
> open his coat and said:
> "Well! How dee ya lyke et?"
> She looked and thought a moment and replied, "I guess
> I like it just 
> fine."
> "Aye Lass, and there's another one
> n'a'half yards ye'll be gettin for 
> Christmas!"
> 
> 
> Have a nice day
> 
> Ray
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 2:30 pm
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] What if OBama
> 
> 
> 
> I'm guessing this is a Renaissance Festival function,
> but tell anyway; 
> I'm
> interested in hearing about the name ...bobf
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 10/8/08, rayzentz AT aim.com
> <rayzentz AT aim.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Homestead] What if OBama
> > To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 1:40 PM
> > I never said I wasn't part of one.  Afteall, I
> talk to
> > you, don't I?
> > ;-)
> >
> >   And, I am very willing to talk about my
> subculture..., to
> > anyone.   I
> > can even tell you why I specifically chose that name.
> > Again my issue
> > isn't so much the name, but the "why?"
> >
> > Ray
> >
> >
> > ****** Padruig?  and you are talking about other
> people
> > using weird
> > names being
> > part of a sub-culture <G> ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> > To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> 
> 
> 
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