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Chief's Comments
September 1, 2008 Hello all,
Hope your summer has
been a fun one! We now look forward to kids getting back to school, cooler
weather and the holidays fast approaching.
Our Gathering at
Boosters in Mission
Viejo was a blast! We will do it again soon. Keep checking the site
for more info.
Look for us in Ventura
at the Seaside Highland Games
in October. We will be incognito in the Strachan tent! Pass the word!
talk soon d
June 2008 Hello all, We are on the brink of summer and I am sure all have plans for vacations, graduations and don’t forget Fathers day! If anyone has an idea for a CI gathering please email me so we can put the word out. Kelli was thinking of having another get together at the Port Brewing company (were the birthday bash was held) in San Marcos… as soon as we pick a date we will pass the word. Our next outing will be at the Irish Faire at Irvine Meadows June 21 & 22, 2008. We will be with our good friends at MacKinnon’s Quality kilts having fun as usual. If you do not have a kilt yet …then come see us at MacKinnon’s! Still working on registering the CI Tartan. We have the sample and hope to cut a check and a request to the Tartan Authorities shortly. All is well at the home front for CI. Seems getting banned at games has just made folks try harder to find us! You can’t keep a good time down! Working on the web site and we are adding a new links page for our friends and members. We also have added a myspace sight as well. Keep in mind it’s a work in progress so check it out and add to it!! www.myspace.com/claninebriated If any of you were at the William Wallace day celebration last August in Bakersfield, then you know what fun it was. Please write to the Kern Scots Society so they will keep it going. Email a quick note to Jennifer and tell her you want to see it at Stramler Park (where the games are held in the spring) and you like the idea of moving it to November…much cooler!
Talk soon d
March 2008 I want to thank all of you who attended my 50th birthday party in November! It was great to share it with all who came. I hope all of your 2007 holidays with family and friends were memorable. We just finished a wee jaunt to Phoenix for their games and had a great time. CI was firmly imbedded in the Clan Strachan Society tent with Jim Strachan, Todd Greer and were joined by the Tinkers and our good friend Bob Matheson! A good time was had by all! We are now into the “High Holy Month of Intoxication” Or March as it is known to some! LOL! Yes it’s that time of year when all of the amateur drunks come out to play. A word of caution when on the road this St Paddy’s day… if you see someone with one of those silly plastic derby’s on…move away as quick as possible!!! We at CI prefer to celebrate our Irish roots and have fun doing so in a more dignified way. This year our very own Clan Commander Todd Greer is the new Smilin Irishman of San Diego 2008! He is the “High King” of the largest St Paddy’s day parade west of the Mississippi! He will ride in a convertible and do his best “parade wave” to all the little people! To keep him in line he will be joined on all 4 sides of the car by the “garda filleadh beag an ard-ri” “the kilted guard of the high King” More affectionately known as “the FENDER SKIRTS” ! It’s made up of past Smilin Irishman in our finest Irish National tartan kilts! We pass out candy and goodies to all the kids along the parade route. I hope all of CI will make the trek to San Diego and join us in celebrating our Celtic heritage! For more info go to www.stpatsparade.org Next month we head to Bakersfield and will be the featured tent at the Kern County Scots highland games. Please join us there and support their games. The folk in Bakersfield know how to throw a great party!
Chief's Comments Hello all, As most of you know I will post a few comments now and again to let everyone know what’s been going on. I also encourage any and all of you who wish to have a say to your fellow clan members to email us with them and we will post them! First off I want to say that CI had a wonderful time in Bakersfield at the first annual William Wallace Day celebration. CJ Henderson and his crew did a great job for a first time event! We welcome our newest members who joined our wee band of folk who enjoy life! In looking over notes from years past I have lead a few astray with the pronunciation of our motto…. So let me clear things up a bit Gu Deoch is GOO JOCK or “to drink” Gu Cairdean is GOO CAIR JEN or “to friends” Gu Spors is GOO SPOORS or “to fun” I hope this will clear up any further mispronunciations . We now have window stickers for your car! Check out the merchandise page for more info. I want to invite all of you to my 50 year celebration of life in November! I want to share this occasion with you, all of the folks who live life as I do! The announcement should be posted on the site. AND last but not least more fun politics for the CI clan…. It seems that the Seaside Highlands games were blackmailed into having CI removed from their games. It seems the “Old Guard” still has their panties in a bunch about us trying to be a “REAL” clan! Even though as you all know we have never claimed to be a real clan, but a wee parody of the clan system of which would be dead right now if not for us AMERICANS keeping it alive! Anyway the story is there are a few (all of which will not come forward) who threatened Seaside with a boycott of their games if our banner was allowed to fly! Very childish and silly but there you have it. So CI will be there in spirit (since you cannot kill our zest for LIFE) and we invite you all to come to the Clan Strachan Society tent on clan row. We encourage you all to come to the games in your CI shirts and show your support for living life to the fullest! For more info on the games or if you wish to comment to the Seaside board go to www.seaside-games.com Talk soon d
Chief's Comments Hello all and welcome to Clan Inebriated! From time to time I will have a few things to pass on to our growing number of members who understand that life is worth living with plenty of humor! We have just been through 3 great Highland Games, the Queen Mary in February, the Bakersfield Games and the Las Vegas games in April. CI won the “best tent” award at the Bakersfield Games and were warmly welcomed in Vegas! We encourage you all to help support these games and plan on attending them next year. CI will lead the Clan march in Bakersfield next year! We would love to have 100 or more marching with us! We were asked to attend games in Washington, Oregon and Arizona! Unfortunately the lack of funds keeps us close to home at this time but as we grow and with your support we can start to do more and more! I hope you all will continue to keep an eye on the web site. It is constantly changing and we hope to try and add a page for direct comments from you and we ask that you all take PICTURES of yourselves wearing your CI shirts where ever you are in the world so we can put YOU on the picture page! A member’s only page is being set up where we can all have a say and not be worried about being politically correct. We ask that you all have fun with it but also ask that you all be polite and above all humorous. The Tartan you see on the sight is the official CI tartan and you’re Clan Commander Todd and myself not only designed it but are trying to have it registered and then have it made at a descent price so all may order a CI Tartan kilt!!! For those of you who do not have a kilt and this is your first WE would all be so PROUD!! We will keep you all posted on the development. Our Pirate Flags are finally in and we will have our Fleet Admiral Warren Casey flying it proudly on his boat! We are trying to find a manufacturer who can make them at a descent price so we can offer them to you as well. We have many more shirt designs being made and will get them on the site for sale. We also have added our “lifetime membership” certificates as well. Something fun to display at home and a card to carry in the wallet. My God you could all be “card carrying” members of CI!!! Now that’s impressive! LOL! Still working on the email list for announcements. I know, I know your Chief is a bit slow on the old ‘puter! We are hoping to get together this summer for a large gathering somewhere in Orange County so all can attend. I will look at some dates and venues and send out the word. Now for a bit of bad news and a plea for some help from YOU our members. As most know we still deal with some who are a bit “old fashion” and those that can not get over the word “inebriated” Some will not look a little further and discover the fact that we all like to have a wee bit of fun in our lives. That we are a group who live our lives with a sense of excitement and exhilaration. That said, I will tell you all we have been banned from the Pomona games. I will not go into details but ask only this…if you disagree with their decision and you would like us to attend all games then please email them and let them know how joining Clan Inebriated affected your lives. Be polite and simply ask “WHY?” you are not allowed to gather with YOUR Clan at their event. It might make a difference if your voices are heard. The folks at the San Diego Games have a similar view so we are not sure if we will be there or not as well. We would like to attend all games and welcome all to our fun but can only do so if we are welcomed. For the Pomona Games www.unitedscottishsociety.com For the San Diego Games www.sdhighlandgames.org Ok enough of that lets look forward to more fun in our lives and we will all stay in touch and try to have some fun together! We will be at the Seaside Highland Games in Ventura in October. We hope to see all of you there!! I believe we can sneak in on the Clan march so wear your shirts and come and support our friends in Ventura!
Chief's Comments Welcome to all CI members… there are more of you now than there was last time I did a comments page! We just finished up at the Seaside Games in Ventura and I want to thank John and Nellie Lowery for the hospitality shown to the Clan Strachan Society tent and for “banning” CI from their games!!! It seems that by “banning” us we became the secret everybody had to know of the entire games! People were asking all over the games…”where’s Clan Inebriated?” It was amazing! Even though we were technically banned more CI members showed up and proudly wore their shirts then any other games we have done before! You guys were great and showed the “old guard” that we are a growing number of fun folk who all enjoy living life to the fullest and will continue to attend these games and have the fun we do and they can not stop us from a good time! Warren Casey (from our very own Wicked Tinkers) mentioned that during their sets he was amused to see the crowd half in Tinker shirts and half in CI shirts! There is a possibility that we might have some combo Tinker/CI shirts coming up in the near future. I am working with Keith on the idea! I am proud to announce that we now have a very real and very authentic Scottish EARL as one of our members! That’s right… Sir Malcolm Sinclair Clan Chief of the Clan Sinclair and the EARL of Caithness is now a proud member of our little parody! He said to me on Saturday that “you people over here in America are having fun with keeping the traditions of Scotland alive and this tent (Clan Strachan Society/CI) is more like the games back home than all the others!” Having been to a few in Scotland …I couldn’t argue! It was a proud moment for us all! Check the video on this site for Malcolm in action! Next stop is the Celtic Christmas gathering at SOKU College in Orange County. Check the link we have provided for directions and ticket info. Pat Moran (another proud member) is once again putting on a great show!! I confirmed our dates for Bakersfield and Las Vegas next spring more info to follow. We will be in Phoenix in February instead of at the Queen Mary. I can’t afford to do both and we had a request to come to Phoenix so….off we go! Speaking of Christmas… for those who couldn’t get a CI shirt I have placed an order and will have them at the Celtic Christmas and for those who were kind enough to order on line I will ship as soon as they get here. I also now have window stickers…they are cool, so check the merchandise page. Wondering what to get for the hard to buy for person? The CI life membership is a great deal… certificate to hang on the wall, a card for the wallet, I am adding a window sticker and a shirt….all for $50.00…not a bad deal! If I don’t see you at my 50 birthday party or the Celtic Christmas gathering then I want to wish you all a great Thanksgiving, an even better Christmas and I will see you all next year!!
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