I know this isn't a travel question, but I have to ask. <BR>What do the Scots think of Sean Connery? <BR>I saw on tv that he lives on a Carribbean island now (a present or former British colony?). He doesn't spend too much time in Scotland, but he was prominent at the opening of the Scottish Parliament. <BR>Kittie

<BR>Actually he is a tax exile in Spain. Ideal material for the SNP...whose only high profile star support he is! <BR> <BR>Ok enough politics. Not to bore the rest of our readers, I'll e-mail you over the weekend, if that's OK

You can't leave it alone, can you Sheila. <BR> <BR>I'm trying to think of some liberal 'stars' but, well, I having a real job doing so. <BR> <BR>Kittie, he's Scotland's most famous export, a worldwide star. He is generally well liked in Scotland. <BR> <BR>Kittie, he is a Scot, who supports Scotland first. Enough said.

Tony! How could you! Calling Sean Connery "Scotland's most famous export". <BR>And all these years I thought it was that peat-smoked elixir of life, the dew from the heather, that golden stuff distilled from the fog at dawn -- Haig & Haig or equivalent Scots whisky (without an "e"). For shame!

I thought it was plaid, based on every Catholic school uniform in the U.S. <BR> <BR>

Elvira- <BR> <BR>Isn't it a shame that when we imported the plaid skirt and knee socks from Scotland for Catholic school uniforms, we didn't leave it on the men, where it belongs?

So glad to see that sarcasm isn't dead. My kids would second that plaid is why they were sick of parochial school. I can't even use it in the Christmas tree ribbon now. Personally I couldn't understand why anyone would do in King Arthur for Sir Lancelot when Connery played Arthur. There was simply no competition. -Cher

So glad to see that sarcasm isn't dead. My kids would second that plaid is why they were sick of parochial school. I can't even use it in the Christmas tree ribbon now. Personally I couldn't understand why anyone would do in King Arthur for Sir Lancelot when Connery played Arthur. There was simply no competition. -Cher

Cherie- <BR> <BR>Only half sarcastic, after all, it really does look better on the men!

Is "plaid" what we call tartan? ;-)

Yes, plaid = tartan, sort of. We took wonderful patterns woven into wool that connote family, history, etc. and roller printed it onto polyester in pink and yellow. THEN we made Catholic kids wear it to school...

crip mcdougal ? <BR>

I ALWAYS wanted to go to the Catholic school because I loved my girlfriend's plaid skirt with those cool knee socks! Unfortunately, my Southern Baptist mother didn't cotton to the idea. I think the best thing to come out of Scotland is the Cairn Terrier!

My vote for the best thing to come out of Scotland is IrnBru -- just wish we could get it here!

As they say, all tartans are plaids but all plaids are not tartans.

What is Irn'brew? <BR> <BR>I just had to ask this question because when the new Scottish Parliament opened, three American news-shows had segments on Sean Connery. They profiled him in his home somewhere in the Carribbean. Why is he living in the Carribbean instead of Scotland if he is such a great Scottish Patriot? Taxes is my first thought. Isn't that why Elton John moved to Atlanta? I was just wondering... <BR>Kittie

I'm just about to send you another e-mail, kittie. i've got this thing about privae politics and I wouldn't want to upset Stellarossa again. <BR> <BR>Irn Bru (great name, incidentally, expat!) is a caffein based orange coloured soft drink, which fortunately now comes in a sugar free version, and thus rots fewer teeth. <BR> <BR>It was marketed here for years as "yer other national drink. Made in Scotland...from girders". It is much loved and is the best hangover cure known to man (or woman)

If the government were going to take 40% or more of everything I earned if I continnued to live here I would move to a tax-friendly environment - that is what Connery has done, you cannot slag the guy off for that.

No, not for that. For wife-beating, maybe?

As a West Highland White terrier fancier, I must take exception to the posting about cairn terriers. Send a tin of shortbread and all will be forgiven.