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SCA stories related between 5/1/94 and 5/1/96.

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From: MCNUTT at gateway.ce.utk.edu (Bill McNutt)

Subject: Re: And now: You Know You're In The SCA When...

Organization: University of Tennessee Division of Continuing Education

Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 02:55:37 GMT

silbrmnd at acf4.nyu.edu (The Dark Mage) writes:

>Heehee!!! My fave's are the codpieces with the squeaky toys inside...

For awhile Hasbro Toys were marketing talking X-Men dolls, that said a tagline

if you squeezed them. The Wolverine doll said "I am the best there is at what

I do. A Noble Lord who shall remain nameless is threatening to take the

mechanism out of one of those for a cod.

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

From: Ginny Beatty <virginia.l.beatty at daytonOH.NCR.COM>

Subject: Boys and their toys (was: you know if you're a stick jock)

Organization: AT&T - GIS

Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 19:21:12 GMT

An amusing anecdote:

This past Sunday (5/1/94), after the Middle Kingdom 25th year celebration, Aasa

Sorensdottir and I visited the Chicago Art Institute. After browsing through one

of the displays, we wandered into the medieval arms and armor hall. We briefly

perused the armor and moved on to more interesting things (like the glass and

ceramics), which were in the same room as the armor.

Another friend of ours, Emrys Eustace (Broom), then arrived in the hall. He was

there just to study the armor. Baalduir of Fenix, his wife Carline and her

cousin also arrived in the hall. After some conversation, Aasa and I bid Broom

and Baalduir farewell and went on to other exhibits in the museum.

About 2 hours later, we returned to the armor display. Broom and Baalduir

>never< left the hall, and were busy passionately discussing the jousting armors

and methods of construction.

In the Museum shop, I picked up a present for Broom: a Dover edition of making a

paper cutout helmet. I thought it would be appropriate.

Happy New Year, SCA!

Gwyneth Banfhidhleir

Barony of Flaming Gryphon

Middle Kingdom

From: una at bregeuf.stonemarche.org (Honour Horne-Jaruk)

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

Subject: You know you're in the SCA when:

Date: Fri, 06 May 94 15:31:04 EDT

Respected friends:

My program won't let me quote from the YKYITSCA post, because it's too

long for it (or something like that). But i had to comment about one of the

`urban legend' ones, because I think the real version may have been my

then-husband, Alexandre sur le mer.

A. came back from a voyage with not one single stitch of normal

clothing clean. (It doesn't happen to Merchant Marine officers as often as

it does to college students, but it does happen.) I met him with the car

packed for the event- no normal clothes along. It was dark, he was flexible;

into full silk-and-gold Elisabethan. (No ruffles, just pleated shirt edgings.)

We stopped at a truckstop for coffee and facilities. Being Alexandre,

he put on his rings, medallion, and swordbelt before entering. He came out of

the restrooms grinning ferociously.

Me: What happenned?

A.: The beerbelly at the next urinal wanted to know why I was dressed

like a queer.

Me: And you said...

A.: "My wife made it." then I -adjusted- my sword and added "And I

_don't_ like fighting _women_."

Me: (Choking on my cocoa) Can we leave now?

It almost has to be the same incident. Besides, when he chose to, A.

could produce the most convincing set of snake-eyes ever seen off a riverboat.

In the interests of accuracy, in legends as in everything-

Honour/Alizaunde

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

From: mikes at nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (michael squires)

Subject: Re: You might be a stick jock with a small car if...

Organization: Indiana University

Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 15:03:54 GMT

In article <2q262v$q0f at cmcl2.NYU.EDU> silbrmnd at acf4.nyu.edu (The Dark Mage) writes:

>My mom's car (a Volvo) was designed for polearms... If you lower the

Six of us went to Pennsic X in a 1959 Pontiac Catalina. We discovered that

the fins were perfect for carrying rattan; we found most of a bundle that

had been discarded Monday morning and tied it to the driver's side of the

car. Since the Catalina is large the 12' poles stuck just a bit past

the driver's wind-wing (remember them?).

We also had two car top carriers on the roof, and one on the trunk. The

trunk would take great swords straight in.

And, even with six people and a horrible overload (stuff was tied inbetween

the three cartop carriers) we still were easily able to get up to 100 mph

to escape two 18-wheelers who seemed to be on drugs and who tried to run

over us. I was very happy I had just bought new Michelin X oversize radials.

Michael L. Squires, Ph.D Manager of Instructional Computing, Freshman Office,

Chemistry Department, IU Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855-0852 (o) 81-333-6564 (h)

mikes at indiana.edu, mikes at ucs.indiana.edu, or mikes at nickel.ucs.indiana.edu

From: una at bregeuf.stonemarche.org (Honour Horne-Jaruk)

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

Subject: Re: fun with history

Date: Mon, 09 May 94 12:37:36 EDT

jeffs at math.bu.EDU (Jeff Suzuki) writes:

> To a greater or lesser degree, experiental archeology is what

> some of our most driven SCAdians are doing.

> William the Alchymist

Conversation in my college medieval history class, 1977:

"OF course, as the caption in the book makes clear, knights couldn't actually

get out of a mailshirt alone; this illustration is fanciful, and is intended

to show how poor the knight is."

"Sir, may I use your office phone for a moment?"

"Go ahead, but remember, we've just begun class- don't take long."

(I return to class, two minutes later, and sit down & shut up.)

Twenty minutes later-

"Excuse me, sir, I'd like to return to our first topic- allegorical

versus realistic illustrations?"

"What more could possibly be said about it?"

"friend, could you come down front?"

(Friend proceeds to skin out of mailshirt in manner identical to illustration)

"Now, professor- about the `allegorical' illustration by the same

artist, of women assisting in the defense of a castle..."

...And I still got an A- . I love experimental archeology, I do, I do,

I do!

Honour/Alizaunde

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

From: mikes at nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (michael squires)

Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA when...

Keywords: stories

Organization: Indiana University

Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 15:59:46 GMT

This happened to me.

A largish group of us were staying at a cheap hotel for Talymar's first

coronation in Chicago. We were a reasonable walk from the feast site

(University of Chicago) and a group of about 20 started out at once. We

were all in our best garb and carrying steel; many were carrying

swords. I don't think there was anyone who did not at least have a dagger

at their waist. I was carrying a wall-hanger known in the Shire as

Watermelon's Bane from its function at summer demos.

About half way there we saw a group of young men, all dressed in the same

jackets and hats, walking toward us. We thought it was probably a street

gang, but after hurried consultation kept on walking toward them. When

the young men got to the intersection that divided our groups they

crossed over to the other side of the street. Once we had passed by,

they crossed back over to our side of the street.

Michael L. Squires, Ph.D Manager of Instructional Computing, Freshman Office,

Chemistry Department, IU Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855-0852 (o) 81-333-6564 (h)

mikes at indiana.edu, mikes at ucs.indiana.edu, or mikes at nickel.ucs.indiana.edu

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

From: parkerd at mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca (Diana Parker)

Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA when...

Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 08:05:52 GMT

Some few years ago, my lord and I walked down the street from an event in

an economically challenged neighbourhood in Dayton, Ohio to a grocery

store. Because it was so close we didn't bother to change out of garb.

During the three block trip multiple people crossed the street away from

our path.

When we arrived at the small grocery store, a very nervous security guard

approached and said that we couldn't take any weapons into the store. As

I knew all we had come to get, I stripped off my 3 visible & 1 hidden

blades and passed them over to Hasdrubal who would wait for me at the

front. While I was shopping, Hasdrubal was approached by 5-6 pre-teens

who asked questions about the knives & swords.

About 5 minutes into the conversation, one boy asked if he had ever had to

use any of the weapons. When he answered in the negative, the youngest

and smallest, who looked about 10 or 11, nodded knowingly and said sagely

"when you are packing that much, you don't need to use it."

We gently walked the three blocks back to the site, unmolested by anyone,

but with the determination not to make anyone too nervous.

cheers Tabitha

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Diana Parker <parkerd at mcmail.mcmaster.ca>

Security Services CUC - 201

McMaster University (905) 525-9140 (x24282)

From: locksley at indirect.com (Joe Bethancourt)

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA when...

Date: 27 May 1994 13:22:14 GMT

Organization: Internet Direct, Inc.

A member of my Household, Sir Terans den Sjofarende, was with Phoenix PD.

As a lowly patrolman, he had to stand uniform inspection at the beginning

of each shift....an inspection that was done by a rather tight-a** serjeant.

Terry has a wicked sense of humor, so one evening he asked to borrow an

object I have.

The next inspection, Terry was quietly standing in line as the serjeant

walked down the rows. Upon seeing Terry, and the Object hung from his

belt, the serjeant goggled, took two steps back and pointed, and said,

"Wotthehellisthat?!"

Terry smiled, unhooked it and held it out to the serjeant.

"It's my mace, sir."

(the fun part is that it's a combination weapon.... .58 cal 4 bladed mace)

We have several photos of the old Locksley Monsters in shield-wall, one

of which shows Terry holding a plexiglas riot shield with POLICE across

the front.....<grin!>

locksley at indirect.com PO Box 35190 Locksley Plot Systems

White Tree Productions Phoenix, AZ 85069 USA CyberMongol Ltd

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From: rvoris at world.std.com (Rebecca A Voris)

Subject: YKYITSCA and mutated blackballing

Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 17:10:51 GMT

The combination of the threads on "You know you're in the SCA when..."

and on interacting with people who do this stuff for a living

(sometimes badly, sometimes not) reminded me of something that

happened to me a while ago.

My lord wants to learn how to make shoes. He heard from someone that

an expert in historical shoes worked at Old Sturbridge Village, a

nineteenth-century recreation village here in Massachusetts. He

organized a field trip there to visit this guy and to see the place in

general. Now it turns out that if you simply show up with a large

enough group, they will give you a group discount, but in order to

find this out he wrote to them to tell them we were coming.

After we visited the shoemaker, we all went our separate ways. I was

wandering through one of the houses, and saw a woman sewing a shirt.

So I went up to ask her about it. We talked about stitches and cloth

and patterns for a while. Then she said to me, "You must be one of

the people from the SCA." I was mildly boggled; I had chosen to play

tourist, and wasn't even wearing an SCA-related T-shirt. Apparently,

nobody else asks those kind of questions, and since she knew we were

coming she put two and two together.

Godith Anyon

(Not a sewing weenie. Doesn't everybody ask these questions?)

Carolingia (Boston)

From: timsmith at oasys.dt.navy.mil (Tim Smith)

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

Subject: Re: Know your an Old Timer in SCA when?

Date: 2 Jun 1994 21:50:45 GMT

Organization: David Taylor Model Basin

Poklon k Rialtogradu ot Timofeya Ivanovichya!

Another Old-Timer's moment:

As I was gently flirting with a sweet young beauty working alongside me

in the kitchen, I found out that she was:

1. less than half my age, and

2. two years older than I was when I first joined the SCA.

Tempus fugit....

Dosvedanya,

Timofei Ivanovitch Ponte Alto

Atlantia

Tim Smith Code 522 CD/NSWC Bethesda, MD 20084 (301)227-1312

From: ALBAN at delphi.COM

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

Subject: old timers

Date: 1 Jun 1994 20:10:24 -0400

Organization: the internet

two stories, actually, of which one is an old-timer line....

1) there's a young lady i often saw at pennsic; after seeing

her regularly after 4 or 5 wars, we finally got to talking. she is

now in college; i discovered, when we finally got together, that she'd

been born about a month before i joined the sca. <creak><groan>

2) married in the sca, version 7: there was an event in three rivers, oh

ten years ago or so, when cloved fruit was semi-popular. a friend

of mine, mistress morganna,knew these two relative newbies who she

thought might like each other. she inttroduced

one to the other, explained the clove fruit routine, gave them one,

and left them alone. apparently, two hours later, when we had to

leave the site, the couple was still exchanging the fruit.

they're married, now, and have been a good couple since the cloves.

(hmmm, does this mean the cloves cleaved them one to the other?)

okalban, who actually sleeps now, because the whipporwills seemed finally

to have shut up!

From: meg at tinhat.stonemarche.org (meg)

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

Subject: Re: Cannon (Pennsic Bell)

Date: Wed, 15 Jun 94 17:05:54 EDT

Organization: Stonemarche Network Co-op

And then there was the morning I was camped next to the cannon at Pennsic

16. We were sound asleep, snug in our sleeping bag, Cassie (my dog) and

I. The cannon went off, and poor Cassie instantly emptied her bladder all

over the bed. Sigh.

Megan, who now sleeps far away from the artillary.

In 1994: Linda Anfuso

In the Current Middle Ages: Megan ni Laine de Belle Rive

In the SCA, Inc: sustaining member # 33644

YYY YYY

meg at tinhat.stonemarche.org | YYYYY |

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From: meg at tinhat.stonemarche.org (meg)

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

Subject: Re: Joe Newby's Name

Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 13:49:12 EDT

Organization: Stonemarche Network Co-op

hrjones at uclink.berkeley.edu (Heather Rose Jones) writes:

> meg (meg at tinhat.stonemarche.org) wrote:

> : There is a gentleman of my aquaintance from the Midrealm whose mundane

> : name is Henry Tudor.

> : Any other coincidental names out there?

> : Megan

> Maybe he should meet the lady out here in the Mists whose mundane name is

> Catherine Aragon ...

> Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn

Love it!

Unfortunately, (or perhaps fortunately) he is already attached to a wife.

(not that that ever stopped his historical namesake). they were on their

honeymoon during hurricaine Gilbert on Jamaica. After the storm was over,

and I got (read here stole) (ok, appropriated without the owners

permission) busses to transport the resort's guests to a city, I finally

sat back to relax with a book. They were sitting next to me. They noticed

I was reading a SF book, and asked if go to cons. No, I replied, I am too

busy going to SCA events on weekends. And they began to laugh...I KNEW

it, she said, the moment you stood up on the table and yelled "HOLD", and

the way you organized the rescue during the storm, I just knew you had to

be a scadian. No one else has that aura of absolute authority.

We have a reunion every Pennsic to remember the vacation that wasn't.

(next time I'll tell you about the jerked collie)

Megan

In 1994: Linda Anfuso non moritur cujus fama vivat

In the Current Middle Ages: Megan ni Laine de Belle Rive

In the SCA, Inc: sustaining member # 33644

YYY YYY

meg at tinhat.stonemarche.org | YYYYY |

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From: mordraut at bga.com (Mordraut Freyulf)

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

Subject: Re: Master Iolo?

Date: 28 Jun 1994 12:16:54 GMT

Organization: Real/Time Communications - Bob Gustwick and Associates

mondschein at delphi.com wrote:

: Is that the same fellow from the "Ultima" games? I've always wondered

: that.

: Weird thing: My lady whistled a bar of song in the car as we were

: returning from the Renn Faire. I whistled the next bar. Then we both looked

: at each other and realized that it was "Stones," which is a song from the

: Ultima games, credited (in the game) to "Iolo FitzOwen." Weird, huh?

: --Tristan

Don Shomino, MKA Richard Garriott, AKA Lord British, creator of Ultima

based some of the characters on people in the SCA, most of whom live(d)

in the Barony of Bryn Gwlad. Master Iolo is both a crossbow maker and a

bard, and he does look like the computer version. He tells a story about

a young person coming up to him with the following questions:

KID: Your Iolo, right?

IOLO: Yes I am.

KID: Your a bard?

IOLO: Yes I am.

KID: And you make crosbows?

IOLO: Yes I do.

KID: So you based your persona on the Ultima character, right?

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From: locksley at indirect.com (Joe Bethancourt)

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

Subject: Re: A slightly wacky YKYITSCA

Date: 1 Jul 1994 16:27:14 GMT

Organization: Internet Direct, Inc.

I like knives....I tend to get crazed sometimes in my Cavaliers and wear

several of all sizes about my body.

One afternoon in a grocery, a mundane asked me "Why all the knives?"

I pointed to the lacing on my Lady Wife's gown and said:

"Zippers."

locksley at indirect.com PO Box 35190 Locksley Plot Systems

White Tree Productions Phoenix, AZ 85069 USA CyberMongol Ltd

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

From: Nate Schroeder <neschr at ccmail.monsanto.com>

Subject: Re: Urban Legends

Organization: Monsanto Company

Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 22:16:24 GMT

One I heard told of some Three Rivers folks, before I joined (in AS 12) -

Arwyn, Jason d'Westershire, and another (Lloyd?) were bored one evening, and

decided to go trolling in Forest Park for muggers. (FYI: Arwyn is quite

beautiful, VERY well built, and I think I'm safe because I don't think she

reads the Rialto.) Arwyn strolled apparently alone through the dark park; the

men followed at a certain distance, not obviously "with" her. She was accosted

twice that evening; both times, of course, the men rushed to her aid. One of

the times, the assailant was still standing when they got there. (Arwyn is

also VERY dangerous.)