SCA-War-Xcuse-msg - 4/6/09 Interesting excuses given for SCA Wars. NOTE: See also the files: SCA-hist1-msg, border-stories-msg, Hst-SCA-Fence-art, SCA-stories1-msg, GW-history-msg, Hist-of-Birka-art, Estrella-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 separate 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. I make no claims as to the accuracy of the information given by the individual authors. Please respect the time and efforts of those who have written these messages. The copyright status of these messages is unclear at this time. If information is published from these messages, please give credit to the originator(s). Thank you, Mark S. Harris AKA: THLord Stefan li Rous Stefan at florilegium.org ************************************************************************ Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:12:03 -0400 From: "Elaine Koogler" Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Potrero War Welcome Potluck To: "Cooks within the SCA" Our Barony and our neighbors in Storvik had a war one year...it was kind of silly, but lots of fun. The point of dissension was the fact that a town called Upper Marlboro was in their Barony and Lower Marlboro was in ours. We claimed that they should cede Upper Marlboro so we could reunite the two Marlboros! Very silly. Kiri Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:18:33 -0400 From: ranvaig at columbus.rr.com Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Potrero War Welcome Potluck To: Cooks within the SCA > Our Barony and our neighbors in Storvik had a war one > year...it was kind of silly, but lots of fun. The point of dissension was > the fact that a town called Upper Marlboro was in their Barony and Lower > Marlboro was in ours. We claimed that they should cede Upper > Marlboro so we could reunite the two Marlboros! Very silly. No silly than the struggle that started Pennsic.. between the East and the Middle to decide which kingdom that Pittsburgh was in.. the loosing side got Pittsburgh. Or so I have been told. Ranvaig Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:56:15 -0400 From: "Cassandra Baldassano" Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Potrero War Welcome Potluck To: "'Cooks within the SCA'" That the losing side got Pittsburgh (Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands) seems to lend credence to the name of the group. :) When I was out West the Province of Southern Shores and the Shire of Esfenn had a similar (much smaller scaled) war over Milipitas. So the losing side was to get the SCA corporate office. Euriol of Lothian, OP Minister of Arts & Sciences, Barony of Endless Hills Clerk, Order of the Pelican, Kingdom of ?thelmearc Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:53:41 -0500 From: Stefan li Rous Subject: [Sca-cooks] silly reasons for SCA wars To: SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks > Sorry...my bad. Our Barony and our neighbors in Storvik had a war one > year...it was kind of silly, but lots of fun. The point of dissension was > the fact that a town called Upper Marlboro was in their Barony and Lower > Marlboro was in ours. We claimed that they should cede Upper Marlboro so we > could reunite the two Marlboros! Very silly. No silly than the struggle that started Pennsic.. between the East and the Middle to decide which kingdom that Pittsburgh was in.. the loosing side got Pittsburgh. Or so I have been told. Ranvaig >>> Yes, that is one of the stories which has grown up around Pennsic. Even Master Cariadoc gives two different stories. The real one, and the one that makes the better story. You can find both of them in the Florilegium, although right now I can't remember whether they are in the Pennsic history file, the Pennsic stories file or one of the SCA story files. Unfortunately, no matter what precautions you take to come up with a silly reason for a war, someone is likely to forget it is just in fun and get too serious about it. Just after I joined the SCA, about 18 or 19 years ago, there was a war between the Barony of Bryn Gwlad and the Barony of the Steppes in Ansteorra over mustaches, called the Mustache War. The creators of this war chose that since they figured no one would take it seriously and forget it was in fun. From a recent message on this war from the guy who was baron at that time: "It was originally about Don Blayne's mustache, ya know. He had that magnificent handlebar that Robin said infringed on his badge. My having a respectable mustache was just icing on the cake, and Robin expanded his "attack" to include all the mustaches of Bryn Gwlad. (And yes, the exchange mentioned below did happen at least once after war had become inevitable, although I doubt anyone remembers the actual words used. But this is close enough.) CC cookies weren't only the prize -- winner take all although we shared with the losers of course -- but also the coin of choice for hiring mercenaries. Bryn Gwlad had barrels of them. Literally barrels." Unfortunately, one of the cadets had a Don who lived in the other barony and decided to fight with his Don rather than with his barony. A lot of people got upset and turned against this individual and a number of nasty things were said and accusations thrown around about loyalty and such. But then it seems I've heard a lot of accusations thrown around about loyalty and such in regards to the fiasco in Iraq in the last couple of years as well, so I guess no matter what silly reason you come up with for a war it is likely to lead to accusations of lying and lack of loyalty and bitter feelings. Stefan -------- THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas Edited by Mark S. Harris SCA-War-Xcuse-art Page 3 of 3