What do the Queen’s Guards or the Black Watch or whatever really wear under those kilts? And if the answer is nothing, like my boss claims, would the desire to follow such pure tradition really result in inspections at the lineup by sergeants or officers with mirrors attached to their shoes to ensure compliance? I could buy the naked bit, but am sure the inspections part (can you just picture a foot thrust between a guard’s legs?) is just some weird man thing. Please tell me the truth. –Yvonne Walton, Londonderry, New Hampshire
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You’ll want to sit down for this, Yvonne. Just make sure you’re not sitting directly across from a kilt-clad Scot. Apparently they don’t wear anything under there, or at least they’re not supposed to. I know because I posted this to the Net (soc.culture.celtic) and got numerous replies such as the following: “Me wears the scotty-skirt and I can assure you that correctly there is nowt unner it, however we 20th century derivatives feel the caul a bit and so unless it’s a formal occasion, I actually (NO! No! I can’t admit anything . . . not in writing anyway!)”
SMOKING IS GOOD FOR YOU
. . . and avoid weeks of bloody diarrhea
