grandparents who raped and pillaged

[sismex01 at hebmex.com]

> 
> Laura Creighton wrote:
> > 
> > Correct, but we went from Lawless, to Law imposed by the English, as
> > occupiers.  In our area of Scotland, at any rate, the Scottish Law
> > you mention was only for deals within the Scottish Noble classes
> > (we didn't have any merchants, as far as my grandfather was able
> > to research).  But the Lairds ruled their clansmen as absolute
> > despots in our area of the world.  Reading about it makes me think
> > that my ancestors resembled a motorcycle gang of roving arsonists,
> > robbers, and rapists rather than the picturesque laddies in 
> > kilts ...
> 
> Welcome to the club.  In my case, replace the motorcycles with
> cute little ships with dragon heads on the front, stick a pair
> of horns on our helmets, and you've got the picture right. :-)
> 
> -looking-on-others-with-dis-dane-ly yr's,
>  Peter
>

Cool, so the pillaging game really is a global thing.
Change the kilts/motorcycles or horns/dragonboats for
horses and feathers/braids in our case.

-gus