# It's Tartan Day!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tartan-day/351570>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 6, 2006, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tartan-day/351570 "2006-04-06T13:23:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tartan-day/351570/1 "2006-04-06T13:23:43Z")

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Yes, Tartan Day has arrived! The 686th Anniversary of the [Declaration of Arbroath, 1320](http://www.constitution.org/scot/arbroath.htm), colloquially known as Scotland’s Declaration of Independence.

Go out and hug a Scot (or reasonable facsimile) today!

And here’s a nice [tune](http://www.whitethistle.net/musicfiles/music/files/sbrave.mid) to hum while you’re at it!

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tartan-day/351570/2 "2006-04-06T17:54:33Z")

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Nice to say this is a day for Scotland, seeing as I’m quarter-Scot myself, but – pishtosh! The Declaration was just an appeal to the Pope, and a document saying that if anyone copied what Baliol did and kneel down before English kings, they’d find out the errors of their way quick smart. A bit of a whiney “See what the nasty English did! They’re not helping you like _we_ would!” kind of paper.

I still reckon [Bannockburn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bannockburn) is more worthy of note.

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**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tartan-day/351570/3 "2006-04-06T18:09:49Z")

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\<looks around at the cat\>

There-I’m hugging my own self. Of the clan Macleod, meself.

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**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tartan-day/351570/4 "2006-04-07T01:03:32Z")

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I wore my Keith tartan mini kilted skirt to work today!