SPD-msg - 12/6/95 Silly Parrying Devices for SCA rapier combat NOTE: See also the files: bucklers-msg, r-tourn-ideas-msg, fencing-art, fencing-msg, rapier-books-msg, p-rapier-msg, merch-rapier-msg. ************************************************************************ NOTICE - This file is a collection of various messages having a common theme that I have collected from my reading of the various computer networks. Some messages date back to 1989, some may be as recent as yesterday. This file is part of a collection of files called Stefan's Florilegium. These files are available on the Internet at: http://www.florilegium.org I have done a limited amount of editing. Messages having to do with seperate topics were sometimes split into different files and sometimes extraneous information was removed. For instance, the message IDs were removed to save space and remove clutter. The comments made in these messages are not necessarily my viewpoints. 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Harris AKA: Lord Stefan li Rous mark.s.harris@motorola.com stefan@florilegium.org ************************************************************************ 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 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 > * 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 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 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 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) Edited by Mark S. Harris SPD-msg