We found out last Friday that Elton John was coming to our nearest city for 2 shows. Can you believe that?? 2 SHOWS!!
I almost had a spazz attack. I LOVE Elton John. The day the tickets went on-sale J (hubs) went online and managed to get us tickets. Both shows sold out in 4 minutes. (jaw drop) 4 minutes!!!!! Holy Crap!! In my pregnant state, I probably would have fell to the floor and cried for a week if we didn't get tickets. Mind you...dropping an egg make me cry..sooo.....*rolls eyes* anywhooo...for a couple days now J has been randomly singing various bits of Elton John's songs. No biggie right? Well....he sings in a horrible fake Scottish accent. He also randomly spouts off quotes ( in this fake accent) from 'So I Married an Axe Murderer'.
It was this Scottish accent that actually had our eldest daughter believing we were half Scottish when she was 8.
Sierra was in Brownies a few years ago and her group was having 'Culture Days'. Everyone was to bring a dish of thier favorite cultural food & talk about thier various cultural backgrounds. Sierra brought Chili. (We're not even going there).
Sierra took my mother-in-law as her guest, and they went around the circle talking about thier cultural backgrounds. Okay....we are Plains Cree, Metis & Italian. No Scottish anywhere. So Sierra's turn comes up, everyone turns to look at her and the Brownie leader asks Sierra about her background. I should mention here that Sierra tends to panick when everyone is looking at her expectantly. So she says she is a mixture of Cree & Scottish background & talks a bit of cultural things we eat & do. I don't even know what she could have talked about.
She comes home and we ask her how it went & she says she told everyone about her being Cree & Scottish. We all burst out laughing and tell her she's not Scottish and she laughs and rolls around on the couch. After everyone catches thier breath, we ask her what made her think she's half Scottish. She tells us that when she was asked she said Cree & drew a blank at the rest of her background.....but she heard her dad's voice in her head saying in a fake Scottish accent: "Scottish...say Scottish".
So she blurted out Scottish.
For 2 years after that (Until I became a Brownie leader) everyone involved in Brownies thought we were half Scottish.
Yup. Makes sense to me. I can just hear the town locals: "You know....that Scottish girl.....Sierra Tupone.....her dad is that big Scottish looking guy.....name of Mr Gugliano Tupone, you know him."
