...knowledge, then please try to at least make it something that we don't all know already. The point is, *by now* the bagpipes, like the Scots themselves, are considerably more Scottish than Irish in the eyes of... Well, apparently everybody except you.

If you want to contribute to the discussion, then try to figure out where the fuck JayBee dredged up the Paddies' grub from in the first place. Can he really not have noticed that they -- Scots, pipes, and all -- left Hibernia for Caledonia back around when they were still both called that?