Talk:Cuttie-stool

A fact from Cuttie-stool appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 March 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a cuttie-stool is the Lowland Scots name for a three legged stool that was thrown by Jenny Geddes at the Dean of St Giles High Kirk, in protest at the introduction of Anglican style prayer books in 1637?

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Suggestion: the information (which I have cut from this page) about the stool thrown by Jenny or Janet Geddes at the Dean of St Giles High Kirk, in protest at the introduction of Anglican style prayer books in 1637 should be posted under "creepie-stool". The "creepie-stool" was a small, folding seat used by maidservants to reserve a place for their mistresses in church. This was what was allegedly thrown. Silverwhistle 20:53, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Source please! There is also debate as to whether Geddes, or someone called Barbara Hamilton started the riot, but Geddes is part of the folklore. --MacRusgail 21:33, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"their three legs ensured that if one leg broke, the stool was effectively unusable." A four-legged chair with one leg broken isn't a lot of use either, so I don't think this sentence adds much. I'm going to replace it with a more useful property of (and arguably the reason for) three-legged stools. PeteVerdon 21:54, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]