Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 The Campbell clan did something terrible to another clan in ancient times. Something like murdered another clan or clan leader. Could you sit by the fire and tell me the story while I brew some more coffee? What clan was it, and how did it go with the rest of the clans. Inquiring minds want to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Hand Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 The Campbell clan did something terrible to another clan in ancient times. Something like murdered another clan or clan leader. Could you sit by the fire and tell me the story while I brew some more coffee? What clan was it, and how did it go with the rest of the clans. Inquiring minds want to know. Clan Campbell, and the other clans were always killing others, but this might be what you are thinking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunoon_Massacre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foul Mouth Frank Shutz Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 They may have been involved in the massacre at Glencoe. Campbells tended to be on both sides of anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 Geeez, nice folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Geeez, nice folks. Right, it was the Glencoe massacre; not only murder, but a betrayal of hospitality. I've been to Glecoe; a stark and beautiful place..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Glen Campbell nearly murdered True Grit...... LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 That's what happens when ya give up golf... "The modern game originated in Scotland, where the first written record of golf is James II's banning of the game in 1457, as an unwelcome distraction to learning archery." Good thing they finally decided to un-ban it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 That's what happens when ya give up golf... "The modern game originated in Scotland, where the first written record of golf is James II's banning of the game in 1457, as an unwelcome distraction to learning archery." Good thing they finally decided to un-ban it! Some wives might debate that with you, Hardpan. Then again some wives might agree with you. I was forced to give up golf by legal force. I was too much of a threat to the wild life on the course. And the Marshals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Glen Campbell nearly murdered True Grit...... LL Bada Bing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Well... someone had to do it... I dood it...! Scots Humor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 They make pretty good soup though, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 I like the chicken noodle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Bada Bing! Nope...that was the Sopranos, another murderous clan...... LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 They make pretty good soup though, But they don't make canned haggis, darnit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 By the way, I had some canned haggis recently - Helen Brimstone invited me and the Sassparilla Kid to partake... and I have to report that it was actually danged good! Served up with a fried egg (perhaps not traditional, but who cares! ) it was very similar to hash... and quite acceptable~! Thinkin' I might have to try makin' it from scratch one o' these days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foul Mouth Frank Shutz Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 They make pretty good soup though, So said Shawny Bean, a not so good Scotsman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Plasters, SASS#60943 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Didn't the Campbells invite the McDonalds over for a dinner to make peace and then feed them the flesh of their relatives that they had slaughtered? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted March 19, 2011 Author Share Posted March 19, 2011 By the way, I had some canned haggis recently - Helen Brimstone invited me and the Sassparilla Kid to partake... and I have to report that it was actually danged good! Served up with a fried egg (perhaps not traditional, but who cares! ) it was very similar to hash... and quite acceptable~! Thinkin' I might have to try makin' it from scratch one o' these days... Best be checking with the sheep first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Ears Wilson, SASS #77948 Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Cobbled together from Wikipedia: Early in the morning of 13 February 1692, in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution and the Jacobite uprising of 1689 led by John Graham of Claverhouse, an infamous massacre took place in the Valley of Glencoe, in the Highlands of Scotland. This incident is referred to as the Massacre of Glencoe, or in Scottish Gaelic, 'Mort Ghlinne Comhann' (murder of Glen Coe). The massacre began simultaneously in three settlements along the glen—Invercoe, Inverrigan, and Achnacon—although the killing took place all over the glen as fleeing MacDonalds were pursued. Thirty-eight MacDonalds from the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed by the guests who had accepted their hospitality, on the grounds that the MacDonalds had not been prompt in pledging allegiance to the new monarchs, William and Mary. Another forty women and children died of exposure after their homes were burned. The Glencoe massacre became a propaganda piece for Jacobite sympathies, which were to come to a head in the next generation in the Rising of 1745. In the Victorian era interest was revived and the massacre was romanticised in art and literature, such as Sir Walter Scott's "The Highland Widow". The massacre was regarded by many (who were schooled in the romantic 19th century school of Scottish history) not as a government action, but as a consequence of the ancient MacDonald–Campbell rivalry. Memory of this massacre has been kept alive by continued ill feeling between MacDonalds and Campbells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Ears Wilson, SASS #77948 Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 There's a beautiful, haunting song about it called "Glencoe". My favorite version is by Scottish folk singer Alex Beaton and it's avaiable on iTunes. Verse 3: They came from Fort William with murder mind The Campbell's had orders, King William had signed Put all to the sword, these words underlined And leave none alive called MacDonald Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowCatcher Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 There's a beautiful, haunting song about it called "Glencoe". My favorite version is by Scottish folk singer Alex Beaton and it's avaiable on iTunes. Verse 3: They came from Fort William with murder mind The Campbell's had orders, King William had signed Put all to the sword, these words underlined And leave none alive called MacDonald Shadow Catcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliope Cupcake #13981 Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Glen Campbell nearly murdered True Grit...... LL AND DAT'S DA TRUTH the MacDonalds and the Campbells will set aside their differences to march with the rest of us clans behind Los Angeles Pipe & Drum Band in the San Juan Capistrano Swallows Day Parade Mar. 26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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