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Silly Parrying Devices for SCA rapier combat

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From: STEVE.GREENFIELD@rook.wa.com (steve greenfield)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Silly parrying devices
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 19:34:25 GMT

-=> Quoting Soliiigm@aol.com to All <=-
So> There was a Black Rose event, (I hope my memory is serving for this
So> one) where in addition to a white scarf being used as a parry weapon, I
So> saw a boffer wench (honest to god blowup doll with a wench dress on), a
So> boffer cat (don't ask) and an off-hand cadet (You hold one of these by
So> either the scruff of the neck, or the back of the belt...be nice if the
So> cadet at least got a weapon).

Michael Farlow (he has changed his SCA name and I don't know what it is now)
late of Portland, OR, now somewhere in Texas, has made some boffer bottles
that the bottom 'breaks' off of, leaving 'jagged edges' to thrust with.
At Cavalier Lights War a couple years ago some one had 'Davey the Cabin Boy'
tied to his buckler, a boffer ham and a boffer tuna. Sebastion de Caen has
boffer barrel, mugs, etc. You get the idea. You sure that wench wasn't his
lady?
Esteban el Barbarosa de Curvo del Rio

From: magesteve@aol.com (Mage Steve)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Silly parrying devices
Date: 20 Dec 1994 11:01:22 -0500

At a recent Atlantian event, there was a Tavern brawl involving boffer
weapons. Besides the more usual ones, the stranger weapons includes

* Boffer Cat
* Boffer Dog
* Boffer Plague Rat
* Boffer Chair
* Boffer Loaf of Bread
* Boffer Boomerang
* Boffer Stool
* Boffer Bottles
* Boffer Canderobra (sp?)

Obviously, any of these could be used as a silly parrying item for
Duello.

From: corun@access1.digex.net (Corun MacAnndra)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Silly parrying devices
Date: 21 Dec 1994 06:23:04 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA

Zach <zkessin@id.wing.net> wrote:
>In article <3d6v4i$193@newsbf02.news-fddi.aol.com> magesteve@aol.com (Mage
Steve) writes:
> At a recent Atlantian event, there was a Tavern brawl involving boffer
> weapons. Besides the more usual ones, the stranger weapons includes

<snip>

> * Boffer Canderobra (sp?)

That would be candelabra. Also at this event were a boffer iron skillet
with matching rolling pin, and a few very nice boffer ale mugs.

In service,
Corun

From: SADV153@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Silly parrying devices
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 94 09:07:53 CST
Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham

corun@access1.digex.net (Corun MacAnndra) writes:
->Zach <zkessin@id.wing.net> wrote:
->> magesteve@aol.com (Mage Stve) writes:
->> At a recent Atlantian event, there was a Tavern brawl involving boffer
->> weapons. Besides the more usual ones, the stranger weapons includes

<snip>

I've also seen (at various events in Meridies) boffer "herrings" (rather large
for herrings, if you ask me!), boffer haggis, and a boffer Tavern Wench! :-)

Jamelyn

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: levey@netcom.com (Don Levey)
Subject: Re: Silly parrying devices
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 19:35:45 GMT

Zach <zkessin@id.wing.net> wrote:
> magesteve@aol.com (Mage Steve) writes:
> At a recent Atlantian event, there was a Tavern brawl involving boffer
> weapons. Besides the more usual ones, the stranger weapons includes
>
>At the Dec 10 King's & Queen's Fencing championships there was a
>tavern named "Le Poulet Gauche" ie "Left Chicken" the name was
>invented when some years ago someone used a rubber chicken as a
>Parrying device. Or so I was told.
>
>Guiliam --Assistant Propriotor Le Poulet Gauch- Calais France 10 Dec 1594

Well, that would be (partly) me. A number of years ago, when
Sayid Mustapha (so difficult to spell in Latin characters) still
inhabited our fair shores, he would occasionally fence with a
stiffened rubber chicken in his off-hand. At this time, I had a
pillow shaped (and colored) like a chicken drumstick. We had
not a few very silly bouts because of this. I even offered to
allow him 2 weapons, and I would take his Poulet Gauche and mine
and fight him chicken Florentine.

-Don
(Don Donal Artur of the Silver Band, EK)

From: iainranock@aol.com (IainRanock)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYINTSCA
Date: 27 Nov 1995 16:03:54 -0500

caradoc@neta.com (John Groseclose) writes:
>...Or you go to a tourney, the second round of which will be fought
>"Florentine," and wonder who's going to beat whom wielding *vegetables?*

I don't know, I have photos of a bout I fought "A la Florentine" (Rapier
and Spinach)

Tongue firmly in cheek ~);^)

Iain of Rannoch (Lost north of Sae March/Trimaris)

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