What is it? (quiz)

[Oldtimer]

I've been to several military and law enforcement funerals- where they played a bagpipe funeral dirge- a sound that not only can bring tears to your eyes but can send chills down your back...

My old partner used to say the tears on his cheeks were because of how rotten bagpipe music is

[Silver]

"The Maple Leaf Forever" played on bagpipes has got to be the most incredible piece of patriotic music ever put together. Listening to that I can see why the Germans never stood a chance a Vimy Ridge.
My Scottish side, the Hunters, are apparently from the Isle of Islay. Can't say where that is, but I did see a picture of the family castle. And by castle I really mean "pile of rocks" Oh well.

[cowhunter]

Well if she lived by me I be a murderer. Like what the little fox got, but no peckin. I'd a cut her head off. A little pipes is good. But nobody can carry a good tune on the thing long before they get confused and waver off. That's when I'd like to take a yeller handled case and open up the bellows. But now and then, the highland blood calls me. Urnin for the kilt an no drawers. Its kind of strange thinkin of a girl tryin to look up your dress.

[Hereford76]

[burnt]

It has been said that the Germans, being very thrifty and practical, made use of every part of the butcher hog but the squeal.

The Scots did them one better and took the squeal and put it into a bag with pipes and holes in it.

And that is how we got the bagpipes . . .

[cowhunter]

If somebody played the star spangled banner. On the pipes, I'd defect and move to russia. Cows, horses, dogs and youngins. Silver, did ur uncle have his kilt on? I bet its cold up there for kilt wearin and No drawers.

[Grassfarmer]

I don't hear much variety in Canada on the bagpipes - Scotland the Brave, Amazing Grace and the one OT is most likely referring to - The Flowers of the Forest. The latter is a slow lament they have always played at state or military funerals in Scotland and now on the "ramp ceremonies" for the Canadians fallen in Afghanistan.
I'm proud of my heritage and that the bagpipes bring instant recognition around the world and tie these old world tunes with their mournful origins into the modern world.

As for cowcatcher and his fixation with wearing kilts and no drawers - you could always borrow a skirt from your wife and give it a try

Kilts as they are worn nowadays are a bit of a joke actually - a fine piece of Scottish marketing though All the "clan tartans" and allocating visiting Koreans or Germans with their own clan pattern is complete and utter BS. The real origin of colored, clan specific tartans really began just prior to George IV's royal visit to Edinburgh in 1822. Perhaps even more successful than the CAB marketing job

[cowhunter]

No hell no! I'd only wear a sure nuff scottish wool kilt to get the real itchin efect. U see, it helps with the dancein. And I'd have the highlander brand inbroudered on the double rump. And also, the clan groop, the trouble makers. Proudly stiched in the front. So as not to be afiated with any of the hunter clan. Or the sorry dancer clan,that sips no whiskey, from the ile of where ever. And we sure wood not party with no goat herder clans. Stricky sheep for the trouble makers. We have our pipes but mostly fiddle music for our dancein. We go fiddlein and dancein all over scott land and if anybody needed there ass tore up, we'd break out the pipes. Me might even make the jurney over to irland. Haulin our lasses and sheep to. And bog a boot off in some of then smart ass lepercon cowboys all the time lookin for a clover bud,4 leafed.

[Silver]

[Steve]

[Andy McNiven]

Silver:
Most of the old families in this township originated from the Isle of Islay around 1830.. Mom and Dad tell me that it is no trouble to see Ireland from there. Dad also says that after being there, and seeing all the rocks and thin soil, it is no surprise that nobody ever moved back.

[cowhunter]

I'd make that my home base. My airboat, hooked to my king ranch, always parked in the front. I bet it would fly on snow. I bet the kilt and no drawers would be a cool ride on a airboat. And it loud, makein everybody mad. Spechely the whiskey fueled late night rides with a load of drunkin highlanders with our sheep and lasses. Lord no's they talk about it for years.