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You know you're in the SCA when...

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Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: tbarnes at silver.ucs.indiana.edu (thomas wrentmore barnes)
Subject: You know you're in the SCA...
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 03:51:35 GMT

	You know you're in the SCA when you see a college diploma on a
friend's wall, and the first thing you ask is, "Who did the
calligraphy?"

	Lothar \|/
              0   (smilant)

From: wisteria at crl.com (Melodi Lammond)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: You know Your in the SCA when
Date: 6 Feb 1994 09:31:27 -0800

You have just finished translating in a hearing room for a non-English 
speaking participant in an insurance case and calmly curtsy to the judge 
and back away to your seat without turning your back to her . . .

Lady Melodia McLammond

aka wisteria at crl.com

From: salley at niktow.canisius.edu (David Salley)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You're know you're in the SCA when...
Date: 12 Feb 94 11:38:40 GMT
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208

com (Don Levey) writes:
> You know you're in the SCA when you visit a period castle, notice the 
> draperies and bedspreads, and think of what lovely clothing they would make...

You know you're in the SCA when you visit a period castle, museum, historical
site, etc. and you can spot the mistakes in the tour guide's lecture. :-)

                                                       - Dagonell

SCA Persona : Lord Dagonell Collingwood of Emerald Lake, CSC, CK, CTr
Habitat	    : East Kingdom, AEthelmearc Principality, Rhydderich Hael Barony
Internet    : salley at niktow.cs.canisius.edu
USnail-net  : David P. Salley, 136 Shepard Street, Buffalo, New York 14212-2029

From: mabr at sweden.hp.com (Morgan "the Dreamer" Broman)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You're know you're in the SCA when...
Date: 14 Feb 1994 10:43:52 GMT
Organization: HP/SCA/SKA/FSTS/AMTS/SLRP/ETC Sweden

David Salley (salley at niktow.canisius.edu) wrote:
:com (Don Levey) writes:
:>You know you're in the SCA when you visit a period castle, notice the 
:>draperies and bedspreads, and think of what lovely clothing they would make...

:You know you're in the SCA when you visit a period castle, museum, historical
:site, etc. and you can spot the mistakes in the tour guide's lecture. :-)

You know you're in the SCA when you watch the old replay of the Crowning
of the English Queen Elisabeth II and you recognize peoples ranks by the
Coronets they are wearing..

You know you are in the SCA when, while watching the same Crowning, you
all of a sudden tell your Lady, "We could use that stuff at Our Coronation.."

Morgan//
Herald and King..... ;)
--
HP   : Morgan Broman				mabr at sweden.hp.com
SCA  : Morgan deGrey, Master of the Freehold Ravens Crag
APD-I: Shade
Amtgard : Morlacad ShadowHawk a.k.a Shade
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From: DDF2 at cornell.edu (David Friedman)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You're know you're in the SCA when...
Date: 14 Feb 1994 13:20:17 GMT
Organization: Cornell Law School

In article <2jnkl8$8ep at hpscit.sc.hp.com>, mabr at sweden.hp.com (Morgan "the
Dreamer" Broman) wrote:

> You know you're in the SCA when you watch the old replay of the Crowning
> of the English Queen Elisabeth II and you recognize peoples ranks by the
> Coronets they are wearing..

I think this one also fits into the thread about the difference between SCA
traditions and real history. So far as I can determine, the system of
coronets by rank that we use became official in England in the late 17th
century.
-- 
David/Cariadoc
DDF2 at Cornell.Edu

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: v081lu33 at ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Ken Mondschein)
Subject: 3 "You know You're in the SCA when..." Stories
Organization: University at Buffalo
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 00:01:00 GMT

	My Dad and I were talking about getting a new car.

	"Dad," I said, "I don't want a flashy car or a fast car or a trendy
car."
	"What do you want then?" he asked, wondering what could be on his
19-year-old son's mind.
	"I want a car with *HUGE* cargo space, so I can haul all my armor
and everything to Pennsic!"

	I was in the financial aid office at school when I saw signs for
"Line for Pell Grants, start here." The first thing I thought was that that's
a painful way to work your way through school. The second was that John the
Pell must have suddenly gotten very rich to set up his own scholarship.

		--Tristan Clair de Lune

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: asgds at acad2.alaska.edu
Subject: You know your in the SCA when...
Organization: University of Alaska
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 13:40:10 GMT

	when you pass by a Fabric store and get the intchin hotties cause they
have a 30% off on all notions sale, and your a guy.
		(well your either scadien or gay!)
	_Geoff- who is Bisexual and allowed to say things like that! >:)

	When you are reading a book that involves the plague and can diagnose
which of the two or three types of plague it is from the sypmtoms.
		"Puss filled swells?  Must be Bubonic!"

	When you find yourself eagerly awaiting the spring wool sales.

	The first time you find yourself mentally gutting and redesigning a
building because it looks remotely medeival and would look So much better if
they just tore down that, and moved this to the left...

 	When you find yourself making nearly a dozen phone calls in the space
of an hour cause You are the ONLY person who knows the phone number/mundane
name of So and So.

	You know your in the SCA when you find yourself saying, 
			"I really have to start paying more attentiong to my
Real life and less to the SCA!" (Sigh) and continue to work on the arts and
  Sciences project. 

			Geoff, who really should start paying
				more attention to real life>  

From: holsten at nature.berkeley.edu (Donna Holsten)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: You know you're in the SCA when...
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 07:59:12
Organization: UC Berkeley

Olan Mills photography studio calls to offer three 8X10's at three separate 
sittings for only $12.95...  And you think, "Hmmm, three separate sittings.  
I *do* need good pictures of myself in my Germans, my Elizabethans, and my 
Tudors..."

Joanna

From: jeffs at math.bu.EDU (Jeff Suzuki)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: You know you're in the SCA...
Date: 10 Mar 1994 10:52:12 -0500
Organization: The Internet

You know you're in the SCA when....

The College Housing Catalog has a line that says, "Students are not
permitted to keep pets, weapons, mace..." and think, "Gee, aren't maces
covered under weapons...?"

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: motto at cbnewsf.cb.att.com (mary.rita.otto)
Subject: You Know you're in the SCA when ...
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 18:55:31 GMT

The decorating scheme of your home is "Bookcase Eclectic" because
everywhere you turn you see bookcases bulging with references and
boxes of craft supplies.  You have seating for four (without using the
floor) and better than half of the living room is permanently occupied
by a "temporary" banquet table for working on projects.

Rosaline

From: ggorsuch at ecst.csuchico.edu (Glenn F. Gorsuch)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA...
Date: 11 Mar 1994 16:55:59 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico

You also know you're in the SCA when:
  
  You go to endorse your paycheck at the local ATM, and the only pen you
have on you is a dip style pen for caligraphy...AND you have the ink!
(Got some really strange looks from those behind me when I waved it around
to dry the ink)

Glenn/Gwyn
-- 
This insightful commentary was brought to you by Glenn F. Gorsuch.  Treasure it.
Address?  Oh yeah.  It's: ggorsuch at ecst.csuchico.edu   Like I'd lie :)

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: asparrow at nyx.cs.du.edu (Angelia Sparrow)
Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA...
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 94 05:05:44 GMT

You know you're in the SCA when you
Ask a telephone solictor to "please, speak louder, milady, for I am one of
the Deaf Bards of Calontir."

(Okay, it was 7:30 AM, the morning after an event)

Aethelynde, who is not the deafest bard in Calontir by any means.

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: mikes at nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (michael squires)
Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA...
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 03:08:26 GMT

You know you've been in the SCA too long when you pick up your wife's
card detailing how to take care of her three new dental crowns thinking that
it's the latest version of the Crown Tourney rules.

-- 
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: glink at silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Gary Link)
Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA...
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington IN
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 05:34:11 GMT

You know you've been in the SCA too long when you always know what date
_Saturday_ is, and calculate the date of any other day of the week from
that.

Hal Raeburn
 mka: Gary Link

From: BFLYNN at email.unc.edu (Brian)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA...
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 12:11:51
Organization: University of North Carolina
Summary: another

You know you're in the SCA when you're walking down the street in garb and 
notice everyone looking at you....and start trying to find the food stain on 
your tunic.....

Brian Flynn
bflynn.uncson at mhs.unc.edu

From: ercil at astrid.UUCP (Ercil C. Howard-Wroth)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re:  You know you're in the SCA...
Date: 23 Mar 94 20:52:50 PST
Organization: Private Node

 You know you're in the SCA when 

1.  You use duct tape to keep your daughters diapers on.

2.  When considering your next possible pregnancy you carefully 
look at the calendar... hmmm will I be able to make Estrella (or 
your choice of Wars).

                                     Lady Astridhr Selr Leifsdottir
                                              E. Howard-Wroth
  
...uunet!astrid!astridhr                          Shire of Heatherwyne
astrid!astridhr at uunet.UU.NET                           Kingdom of Caid
70327.1614 at compuserve.com

From: corun at access1.digex.net (Corun MacAnndra)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA...
Date: 31 Mar 1994 08:00:03 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA

......when your boss hands you a magazine and tells you to check out the
article on full armor. But when you start leafing through the magazine
expecting to see pictures of helms, breastplates, etc. you discover that
it's an article about a PC security package called Full Armor. I really
hate it when that happens.

In service,
Corun
-- 
==============================================================================
   Corun MacAnndra   |        "You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir.
 Dark Horde by birth |           He is fundamentally unsound."
   Moritu by choice  |                                    Jeeves

From: ifdz176 at utxsvs.cc.utexas.edu (Amanda Shields)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA...
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 1994 11:51:56 -0600
Organization: University of Texas at Austin

When you see a very lovely white belt in a store, that would look great
with a mundane dress, but you do not buy it. After all, people might think
you're a knight or something :)
                        Amanda

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: gregsta at microsoft.com (Gregory Stapleton)
Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA...
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 13:24:15 GMT

You know you're in the SCA when you pass a sign on the side of the street that
reads "TANNING" and you immediately comment to your wife: "I wonder what type of
skins and hides they have in stock", then realize they mean artificial sunbathing.
(My wife found this one to be one of my funnier slips. :} )

Gawain Kilgore

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: rvoris at world.std.com (Rebecca A Voris)
Subject: Re: You Know You're in the SCA when...
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 16:49:33 GMT

...your cat understands "Hold".

From: salley at niktow.canisius.edu (David Salley)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA when...
Date: 27 Apr 94 20:39:56 GMT
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208

Avenel Kellough writes:
> 		... You see "Fields of Armor" listed as a program on 
> The Discovery Channel, and are REAL disappointed that its about tanks.

		... Or you hear there's a new movie out called _The 
War of the Roses_, and then learn it's about a messy divorce! :-( :-(

                                                       - Dagonell

SCA Persona : Lord Dagonell Collingwood of Emerald Lake, CSC, CK, CTr
Habitat	    : East Kingdom, AEthelmearc Principality, Rhydderich Hael Barony
Internet    : salley at niktow.cs.canisius.edu
USnail-net  : David P. Salley, 136 Shepard Street, Buffalo, New York 14212-2029

From: Phyllis_Gilmore at rand.org (Phyllis Gilmore)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: And now: You Know You're In The SCA When...
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 11:44:57 GMT
Organization: RAND

In Article <2ppv1i$gml at scratchy.reed.edu>, odlin at reed.edu (Iain Odlin) wrote:

All the good stuff from You Know - - -

Thank you!!!

And one to add--

One of our local newspapers is running a radio ad asserting that 
you can sell anything in their classifieds.  It begins with a man
rather desperately wondering where he can sell his suit of armor.
My initial response was "any SCA event."

Philippa

From: jab2 at stl.stc.co.uk (Jennifer Ann Bray)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You Might Be a Stick Jock If .....
Date: 25 Apr 94 15:56:04
Organization: STC Technology Ltd., London Road, Harlow, UK.

>Have been reading the various boasts of car and truck owners as to which
>polearm fits their vehicle...
>
Never mind polearms, I find a long wheel base transit ideal for
carrying a selection of shields...

You might be a stick jock if...

You get your van stuck in a bog, but escape by unloading the shields
and driving out over them. (from shield wall to shield road?)

Your friend with a motorcycle can't stand it up in a boggy field, but
your spare shield saves it from sinking. 

Everyone else in the procession is sheltering under OOP umbrellas, but
your contingent is wandering along holding roundshields over their
heads. 

The police ask you to unload your van as there has been a tire thief in
the area and they've spotted some suspicious round shapes under a
tarpaulin... which turn out to be a stack of plywood sheild blanks.

Your works fitness assessor asks how come you're stronger than most
men he's tested (& you're female), and you explain that it's because
you haven't got around to making that new lightweight shield yet.

You're an expert panel beater, your van is battered & dented, but you
can't fix it because you're beating out a new shield boss.

You recognise people by their shield devices, but aren't too good on
the faces.

Jennifer/Rannveik
Vanaheim Vikings

From: mabr at sweden.hp.com (Morgan "the Dreamer" Broman)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYIT SCA When...
Date: 16 May 1994 14:49:24 GMT
Organization: HP/SCA/SKA/FSTS/AMTS/SLRP/ETC Sweden

Kathleen Marshall (bookworm at u.washington.edu) wrote:
: 	You receive telephone calls at work for your SCA name
: 	   ...and your co-workers know who it's for!

	They call your company and ask:

	"Could I speak with the King please...?"

	and the operator says :

	"Just a minute and I'll connect you to his Majesty..."

	;) ;) ;)

Morgan//
34 days left and counting....;) !
--
HP   : Morgan Broman				mabr at sweden.hp.com
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From: BKFLYNN at email.unc.edu (Brian Flynn)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYIT SCA When..
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 15:31:01
Organization: University of North Carolina

YKYIT - I like that....

When you take a medieval history course in college - and find out you already 
own the text books....Furthermore, you consider them one of your best 
references.

Uther

Brian Flynn
UNC-CH School of Nursing
Chapel Hill North Carolina, USA
Certified Netware Engineer
bflynn.uncson at mhs.unc.edu

AKA
Uther Quietnoise (McNeil of Barra)
Elvegast
Atlantia

From: UDSD073 at DSIBM.OKLADOT.STATE.OK.US (Mike Andrews)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYIT SCA When..
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 08:29
Organization: The University of Oklahoma (USA)

In article <BKFLYNN.236.000F84D5 at email.unc.edu>,
BKFLYNN at email.unc.edu (Brian Flynn) writes:

>YKYIT - I like that....
>
>When you take a medieval history course in college - and find out you already
>own the text books....Furthermore, you consider them one of your best
>references.
>
>Brian Flynn
>Uther Quietnoise (McNeil of Barra)

Or when you own the texts, but found much better references,
point out to the instructor (privately) where the problems are,
and she _agrees_!

--
Michael Fenwick of Fotheringhay, O.L. (Mike Andrews)  Namron, Ansteorra

From: "Brett W. McCoy" <p01335 at psilink.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: You know you're in the SCA when...
Date: Tue, 24 May 94 12:18:55 -0500
Organization: DIOGENES/FOI Services, Inc.

Two drunken mundanes get arrested for fighting in the street at 2 a.m. 
in the morning, and for the next week, everyone you know asks if it was you...

You have to explain over and over that "making chainmail" does not 
entail sending out 10 letters, instructing each recipient to send out 
10 copies, ad infinitum...

You wake up at night, thinking someone has just broken into your house, 
and try to figure out if you can get to your sword in time, and regret 
that you don't keep it by your bed rather than hanging in the library...

Istvann Dragosani (or Vanni for short)

|FIDONet: 1:109/168.6218              | "Go not to the Elves for counsel,
|Internet: brett.mccoy at permanet.org   |       for they will say
|          bmccoy at cap.gwu.edu         |        both yes and no"
|          p01335 at psilink.com         |      -- JRR Tolkien

From: azrael at access.digex.net (Rich Weissler)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA when...
Date: 25 May 1994 08:45:04 -0400
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA

"Brett W. McCoy" <p01335 at psilink.com> writes:

>Two drunken mundanes get arrested for fighting in the street at 2 a.m. 
>in the morning, and for the next week, everyone you know asks if it was you...

   Wait, wait.  That was two drunk mundanes get arrested for SWORD
fighting in the street at 2am, and everyone just kinda ASSUMES it was
you.  :-)

-- 
Rich E. Weissler			azrael at access.digex.net
        "Victim of a Random Shooting on the InfoBAUN!"

From: "Brett W. McCoy" <p01335 at psilink.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: You know you're in the SCA when...
Date: Wed, 25 May 94 11:37:50 -0500
Organization: DIOGENES/FOI Services, Inc.

>Two drunken mundanes get arrested for fighting in the street at 2 a.m. 
>in the morning, and for the next week, everyone you know asks if it was you...

I forgot to mention that these drunken mundanes were sword fighting, 
not fist fighting...

Istvann Dragosani (or Vanni for short)

|FIDONet: 1:109/168.6218              | "Go not to the Elves for counsel,
|Internet: brett.mccoy at permanet.org   |       for they will say
|          bmccoy at cap.gwu.edu         |        both yes and no"
|          p01335 at psilink.com         |      -- JRR Tolkien

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: KGORMAN at ARTSPAS.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
Subject: Re: I protest!!!!
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 12:57:10 GMT

In article <329_9405151353 at blkcat.fidonet.org> Dexter.Guptill at f120.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Dexter Guptill) writes:
> 
>You know you're REALLY in the SCA when: Someone asks how you met your wife,
>and you tell them you fought for her in a tournament. :-)
> 
My Lord comes from Newfoundland and currently lives in Toronto.  I am from 
Kitchener (Ontario).  We met at Pennsic on the fencing field (having somehow 
managed to miss each other at fencing things at home).  It really confuses 
the mundanes though, when they ask where we met. :-)

Eyrny

From: cameron at satelnet.org (Cameron A. Kabinoff)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: You know you're in the SCA when...
Date: 15 Jun 1994 13:09:50 -0400

You're with a group of friends not involved with the SCA, are attempting 
to sing Harry Chapin's 'Cats in the Cradle' and it keeps coming out to 
the tune of Lord of the Dance.

Your favorite Rock song is 'Dream of the Archer' by Heart (some nifty 
mandolin playing in there)

You dress in a rush to go to work, accidentally grab a piece of garb and 
keep getting compliments on 'that gorgeous top' or 'that lovely skirt' 
and then get people asking what store it was bought at!  

After an event - while getting dressed in mundanes, you don your 
swordbelt and weapons.

-- 
    /\_./o__ -- Do not disturb the sleeping dragon, for 
   (/^/(_^^' -- you are crunchy and good with ketchup! 
  ._.(_.)_   -- cameron at sefl.satelnet.org
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From: gshetler at envirolink.ORG (Greg Shetler)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: You know you're in the SCA when...
Date: 16 Jun 1994 12:09:22 -0400

The old classic:  Somebody goes through a door ahead of you and catches some
item of garb...er...clothing in the door, and you shout "hold!"

You're in the military, and somebody comes into the office in civilian
clothes, and you ask them if their attire "isn't a bit out of period?"

You catch yourself calling "clear" as you draw your steak knife from the
napkin at a restaurant.

Playing racquetball, you ask your opponent if he's ready, then cry "lay-on!"
just prior to your serve.

You find it strange and humorous when somebody calls you "sir".

You never buy a white belt to go with anything, 'cause you aren't a knight.

You get hit by a racquetball (or whatever), and call out "light!" (or "good!")
without thinking.

You shot "huzzah!" at a sporting event
---
---------------------------------------->>

Mordock von Rugen, Commander, Outlands Fray
MKA: Greg Shetler
>From the Barony of Al-Barran, Kingdom of the Outlands
Once from Dun-Or, in Caid
Originally from Western Seas, in Caid

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: klconlin at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Kevin Conlin)
Subject: YKYITCSA....
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 15:10:53 GMT
Organization: Illinois State University

   ....when, while hunting for a travel route to the October Midrealm
Crown Tourney, you spend a half-hour hunting for "Ben Dunfirth" in your atlas,
and THEN realize you need the mundane name for the city...

   Rory mac Feidhlimidh

From: cthomson at unlinfo.unl.edu (craig thomson)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCA...
Date: 27 Jul 1994 13:43:15 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	

     ...when a truck passes you on the highway labeled "...makers of 
the best belts and hoses...", and you think that they're carrying 
garb!  (actually, it was auto parts)

Stephen
Calontir

From: randalo at iia.org (Grey Randall)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Been in Mundania too long when...
Date: 22 Sep 1994 14:46:58 GMT
Organization: International Internet Association.

You know you've been in the SCA (or in my case been around SCAdians) too 
long when:

1) You yell "HOLD!" in the comm center while everyone is doing the 'mid 
crisis scramble'

2) You describe your company's logo to the printer's shop using heraldic 
terms

(I did both.   The printer understood me!)

Yours, 
Saaral

From: mujle at uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jennifer L Edwards)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You Know You're in the SCA...
Date: 29 Sep 1994 18:21:44 GMT
Organization: Educational Computing Network

You know your in the SCA when you see the Soviet army on CNN pull out of 
Berlin wearing white belts on their uniforms and your first thought is 
"they can't all be knights!" :-)

From: Jeff Lee <jlee at smylex.UUCP>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: You know you've been in the SCA too long when...
Date: Sat,  1 Oct 94 01:18:18 EDT
Organization: Wyvernwood, Trimaris  (Tampa, FL)

...instead of having dreams about being out in public with no clothes on,
you have dreams about being at event in mundane clothing...

=====   Jeff Lee / jlee at smylex.uucp / jlee%smylex.uucp at tscs.tscs.com   =====
===== SCA: Lord Godfrey de Shipbrook (Wyvernwood, Khandom of Trimaris) =====
===== Per pale azure and argent, a clarion counterchanged or and gules =====

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: tccg at netcom.com (Tim McDaniel and Other Users)
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 06:16:04 GMT

"'Gules, three chevrons or'.  Nice tabard, classic Anglo-Norman style,
easily visible ... oh, I guess it'd better be visible, he's a road
repair worker ..."

-- 
Daniel de Lincoln, who has been doing ENTIRELY TOO MUCH HERALDRY recently
Tim McDaniel
Dallas, TX -- 214 380-4876
    Be careful sending e-mail to this account: this is a shared account.

From: rhys at io.org (Ian Klinck)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCA
Date: 2 Jan 1995 17:52:12 -0500

You know you're in the SCA when you drive by a fast-food place, see a sign
advertising "NOW HIRING NIGHTS", and joke, "I'll have to tell Sir X."
...
You must be in the Twilight Zone when you drive by the same place the
following week, and they've added the "K"...

Honest!

Rhys

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: J.T.Thorpe <John.Thorpe at ClemsonSC.NCR.COM>
Subject: You know you're in the SCA when... 1.6.95
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 21:24:17 GMT

Greetings from Ellwood!

Iain, you forgot a couple:

YKYITSCAW....

..the bank will cash checks for your persona.  (Uncle Rufus did it.)
..you have to keep telling your co-workers that you are only Lord
	So-and-so, NOT "Sir".  (This one keeps happening to me.)
..your Suburban goes to Pennsic more often than you do.
..every time you buy a new vehicle, it is *bigger* than the last one
	so you can take more people/armor/stuff to events.
	(guess I move up to the school bus category next...)

In service,
Ellwood

J.T.Thorpe  --  AT&T Global Information Solutions

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: zingaro at armory.com (Charles Douglass Skinner)
Subject: Re: ykyitsca
Organization: The Armory
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 09:51:54 GMT

It happened at last. Today, in the mail, I got my first chunk of
plastic addressed to my personna. Now Zingaro the Gypsy has a credit line!
Look out, gaje!
--
zingaro at deeptht.armory.com  

From: carpethis at aol.com (CarpeThis)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You know your in the SCA..
Date: 10 Feb 1995 00:58:17 -0500

...you get attacked by an angry feminist for accidentally forgetting that
you weren't on site when you called your husband "My Lord". (Don't
laugh-it really happened to me.)

From: teachmrt at aol.com (Teach Mr T)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA...
Date: 10 Feb 1995 23:33:40 -0500

Your 11-year-old is going over spelling words and shrieks in delight when
she sees "parry."

And you want her sentence to be. "A rubber chicken is an effective parry
weapon."

Liam O'Donnabhan
Dragon's Aerie
Barony Beyond The Mountain

From: JARI.JAMES at rook.wa.com (jari james)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You know your in the
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 08:09:16 GMT
Organization: Knight-Line! (206) 565-0594

YKYITSCAW:  You go running up the stairs at work and reach down to hold
the hem of your underdress up so as not to trip over it...... and you're
wearing pants.

Rowan
Barony of Blatha an Oir
An Tir

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: red.seven at octapode.cuc.ab.ca
Subject: RE: YOU KNOW YOUR IN THE SCA..
Organization: Octapode
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 95 15:00:46 

M'lady Rosemary,
        On several occasions by chance I have sliped and used 'please excuse me
M'Lady" in a completely chivalrous tone and each time they have been totally
taken aback and offered to take me for lunch :>

                Yours
                Michael of Montengard

From: 0003900943 at mcimail.COM (Marla Lecin)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCAW....
Date: 10 Feb 1995 16:47:53 -0500

You know you're in the SCA when you see a magazine ad that begins:

        "You wouldn't take a period remedy for your headache...."

and think, "what, leeches?  Herbal infusions?"

Then notice that the rest of the ad reads:

        "So don't take a headache remedy for your period."

Jessa d'Avondale

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: Rebecca D Gravrock <gravrock at stolaf.edu>
Subject: YKYITSCA when...
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN  USA
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 12:59:58 -0600 (CST)

Here's yet another!

You know you're in the SCA when "Your pardon" replaces "Excuse me" in 
your vocabulary.

Rosamund of Trenchfield

From: eg437 at cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard S. Mandel)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You know your in the SCA..
Date: 25 Feb 1995 11:30:35 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)

You know you're in the SCA when....

	your front yard has a decorative animal (ceramic goose,
plastic flamingo, concrete rabbit, etc.), and it's clad in full
period garb matching your own.

				Shlomo Korobeinik

	Shlomo Korobeinik
	  mka Richard S. Mandel
	Russian Caravan Trading Company
	eg437 at cleveland.freenet.edu

From: UDSD073 at DSIBM.OKLADOT.STATE.OK.US (Mike Andrews)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW......
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 15:18

YKYBITSCAALLT when

You're at work, a salesman calls on the phone to sell you some lab
equipment, and you respond with "Good morning, Your Majesty!" -
because you recognize his voice. And then _he_ says "Good morning,
Your Excellency!" because he recognized yours.

It happened to our Baroness.

--
udsd007 at ibm.okladot.state.ok.us    (192.149.244.136)
Michael Fenwick of Fotheringhay, O.L. (Mike Andrews)  Namron, Ansteorra

From: hamilton at sml.cse.psu.edu (Julia A Hamilton)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW...
Date: 31 Mar 1995 23:57:01 GMT
Organization: Penn State Computer Science

Or when you enter a crowded grocery store, shortly after attending
an event, and make your way through the crowd saying, "Excuse me,
m'lord." "Excuse me, m'lady." "Pardon, good gentles." ...

Beatrice de Hameldone
East Kingdom
Pricipality of Aethelmarc
Shire of Nithgaard
-- 
Julia Hamilton
hamilton at moe.cse.psu.edu

From: pyotr at chinook.halcyon.com (Pyotr Filipivich)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW...
Date: 1 Apr 1995 03:53:06 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.

Or you enter that crowded part where you work and start to say
"Way - make way for their majesties!"

ufda izmir!.

nikolai Petrovich Flandrovov
--
pyotr at halcyon.com  Pyotr Filipivich, sometimes Owl.

From: blakader at eden.rutgers.edu (Michelle Roberts)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW...
Date: 5 Apr 1995 23:49:45 -0400
Organization: Rutgers University

> >>Of course, gang, you really know you're in SCA when the first
> >>thing you go to when booting up the computer
> >> is rec.org.sca..........

You know you're in the SCA when the *only* reason you get an internet account 
in the first place is in order to read the Rialto.

Marguerite

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAWhen...
From: una at bregeuf.stonemarche.org (Honour Horne-Jaruk)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 07:29:50 EST

odlin at reed.edu (Iain Odlin) writes:

> 
>   YKYITSCAWhen...
> 
>   ...your friends' idea of camping is a backpack and yours involves a U-Haul.
>   -Iain, YKYITSCAWhen list maintainer
    
    ... Your borderline-asthmatic son's doctor blows his stack when you 
mention two weeks of camping... and when you explain the difference suggests
adding another week.
   ... Your own doctor says "that's nice" when you mention a weekend camping-
and then blows _his_ stack when you explain the difference.
   ... You can cook an egg on a rock, but not toast in a toaster.
   ... Your family asks you to "bring stuff for breakfast", and mutter and 
whisper and stare while you unload the cheese and oatcakes.
   ... Your son's boarding school sends a note saying his new "Boxer Shorts"
are great, but he can't wear his "eskimo shirt" at school... and you realize
he snuck his best garb into his suitcase.
   ... You get investigated by Children's Protective Services for 
"cross-dressing" your little boy
   ... You call your Baroness to get you out of it
   ... It works.	 
   ... You can make a loaf of bread faster than you can program a bread 
machine.
   ... Your kids make fun of the "square bread" at the grocery.
   ... You make all your own bread and you don't own a bread pan.
   ... Your more adventurous non-SCA friends wangle invitations for Sunday
supper so they can sample the feast leftovers.
   ... Your secretary routes calls for "Mistress Alizaunde" correctly.
   ... "     "        knows what "Mistress Alizaunde" _doesn't_ mean.
   ... Your mystery-buff dad gets hold of a Brother Cadfael book, and instead
of reading the glossary or checking the encyclopedia, he calls you- long
distance.
   ... Your mother always specifies whether long skirts are proper when
inviting you to her parties.
   ... You talk your bracemaker into covering the plastic parts with leather
and using buckles instead of Velcro
   ... And you dye them to match your arms
   ... Your bedroom contains more SCA-craft equipment than furniture.
   ... Your son wants to take wood shop so he can make _toys_.
   ... Your son wants to take Home Ec. so he can run a feast kitchen.
   ... Your son's classmates see what he's making in metal shop and stop
hassling him about wood shop and Home Ec.
   ... You are substitute teacher for an industrial-arts class, and _they_
stop hassling you when they see what you're making in metal shop.
   ... Your family is Russian, and you only speak English and Gaelic.
   ... You know more about the history of your persona's hometown than you
do about the one you were born & raised in.
   ... You can sew treacherous bias cuts and complex gussets with pleasure,
but you blanch and shake when faced with a set-in sleeve.
   ... Your face is tanned but your legs are white-- and you're female.
   ... It's early August and you _aren't_ tanned... except inside your helm's
eye-slit.
   	(Not all of these happened to me.)	
	enjoy! }:->

                                Yours in service to the Society-
                                (Friend) Honour Horne-Jaruk R.S.F. 
                                Alizaunde, Demoiselle de Bregeuf C.O.L. SCA
                                Una Wicca (That Pict)

From: brgarwood at aol.com (BRgarwood)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAWhen...
Date: 2 Apr 1995 21:54:25 -0400

You know you're in the SCA when you compliment a lady on her lovely chain
mail aventail hanging from her helm, and she replies, "Thank you, it was a
wedding present."

   Other people get toasters.

Lord Berwyn AEthelbryght of Ackley, Midlands Herald
Rudivale shire, Northshield, Midrealm

From: kellogg at ucssun1.sdsu.edu (C. Kevin Kellogg)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAWhen...
Date: 3 Apr 1995 17:07:28 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services

Bill McNutt (MCNUTT at gateway.ce.utk.edu) wrote:
: In article <3lnkgh$3m6 at newsbf02.news.aol.com> brgarwood at aol.com (BRgarwood) writes:

: >You know you're in the SCA when you compliment a lady on her lovely chain
: >mail aventail hanging from her helm, and she replies, "Thank you, it was a
: >wedding present."

: >   Other people get toasters.

: Really?  How absurd.  I gave my wife a belt-dagger.  (Hibben's Silver Shadow. 
: Very dainty.)

	And people thought we were nuts when my wife listed matched sleeping
bags on her registry.

		Avenel Kellough

From: MARCIH at medicine.dmed.iupui.EDU (Marci Haw)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCAW
Date: 3 Apr 1995 17:09:40 -0400
Organization: IU Department of Medicine

YKYITSCAW you see a new book at your local bookstore titled "Border 
Songs" and get real excited until you realize that they mean the 
border between the US and Mexico.
Marci Haw
Morgan Branwen
Barony of Sternfeld
Middle Kingdom

From: clev1 at MFS02.cc.monash.edu.au (Conrad Leviston)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 23:50:36 GMT
Organization: Monash University

>YKYITSCAW... someone asks you "Are you making a movie?"
>(I know... I shoulda replied "No, we're in a play"... sigh...)

	Our group recently did a reading of "Much ado about nothing", in a 
park that had an ampitheatre, so when asked what we were doing...

	Also, on the Braveheart thread, you know you're there with a group 
of SCA people, when during one of the love scenes, you here someone say 
"nice buttons".

Yours in Silliness,
		   Cormac Lenihan

Conrad Leviston | Sear and seal both sides, then slice thinly.
is also found at| Spread on bread, seasoning with oregano, and
mongoose at yoyo.cc| crushed garlic. Top with grated cheese. Put in
.monash.edu.au  | griller 15 minutes. --- Conrad on toast

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: ojid.wbst845 at xerox.com (Orilee Ireland-Delfs)
Subject: Re: ykyitscaw....
Organization: Xerox Corporation, Webster NY
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 16:09:27 GMT

(continuing on the same Godzilla and heraldic positions thread...)

...your 8 year old daughter gets a fully flexible Barbie for her
birthday and you immediately see if she can assume all of the heraldic
positins with an eye toward a future heraldic class.

Orianna

From: teachmrt at aol.com (Teach Mr T)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: ykyitscaw....
Date: 22 Jun 1995 23:29:11 -0400

A few thoughts (none heraldic or Godzilla-related):

You Know You Are In the SCA When . . . 

1. Your mother says to you, "Here, I got this teapot for you at a yard
sale. It looks weird enough, doesn't it?"

2. A student greets you in a Monday morning History class by asking: "So,
did your wife kill anyone this weekend?" And you reply, "No, but she's got
this great bruise on her arm," and the student squeals in delight.

3. Your daughter says to you, "You know what's scary, Dad? Everyone I meet
in the SCA, I only know their Scadian names."

(And you think about that, especially the fact that your 12-year-old and
8-year-old call all these adults by their "first names" and you decide
that's better than "Mr. of Clan Campbell," "Mrs. vonDrachenklawe" or "Mrs.
of the Moors.")

4. Your wife asks you, "Do you want me to buy you some black tights for
the wedding we're going to this weekend?" AND YOU SAY YES.

Liam O'Donnabhan
Canton of Dragon's Aerie
Barony Beyond The Mountain
Kingdom of the East
(Who wears Ultra-Queen size)

From: zarquon at cutlass.pgh.pa.us (Michael Greenstein)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: ykyitscaw....
Date: 26 Jun 1995 23:23:15 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh Community Network

You and your partner are all set to set up your new law firm, but 
after consideration, you both agree, "Better if we wait until AFTER
Pennsic!"

This is going to be an interesting practice, I think...
===========================================================================
Michael Alewright of the Marche        |  a/k/a Michael Greenstein
Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands   |  zarquon at platinum.nb.net
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

From: scj427 at aol.com (SCJ427)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: ykyinsca&gw:
Date: 25 Jun 1995 03:36:23 -0400

 You know you are in the SCA when you are helping referee a peewee
football match and yell, "Lay On" when the whistle blows.  <chagrinned>

Stefan MacMorrow ap Rhovannon

From: niks at bu.edu (Nicole Spaun)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: ykyitscaw....
Date: 6 Jul 1995 02:56:03 GMT
Organization: Boston University

... when your mother gives you a box of curtains for your apartment
and you decide to leave your windows bare and use the drapery to
make into garb... 

... when you doodle device ideas in the margins of your notebooks...

... when you spend 8 hours at a 4th of July celebration on Boston's
esplanade sewing beads on your court garb... and your friends don't 
see this as odd...

			--- Bianca di Bari
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nicole Angelique Spaun      \     " I want to know God's thoughts....
Boston University           /       the rest are details." -Albert Einstein
Center for Space Physics    \     
SCA: Bianca di Bari         /	  Project: To find a ride to Pennsic!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

From: brgarwood at aol.com (BRgarwood)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW...
Date: 19 Oct 1995 13:33:00 -0400

YKYITSCAW--- reading the Northshield mail list, you see a subject "Their
Royal Majesties visit Nordleigh", then feel a pang of dissapointment when
you read the article and it's the King and Queen of Norway, instead of the
REAL king and queen of the Middle.

Berwyn, in Northshield, which doesn't see that much royalty.  That's why
we're gonna get our own prince some day.

From: thorgierr at aol.com (Thorgierr)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW...
Date: 15 Oct 1995 11:06:26 -0400

  We have discovered these:

     "If you spend more on beer than you did on gasoline to get to the
event,. . .

     "If you own more swords than you do pencils .  .  .

     "If you wear your armor more often than you do your suit and tie . .
.
 You Might Be A Stick Jock!

   in delicate service to the Society,
       Lady Tyrca Ivarsdottir

From: erichvs at ix.netcom.com (Will & Stacy )
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYINTSCA
Date: 18 Nov 1995 02:00:33 GMT

>kolton at arizona.edU (Jason Kolton) wrote:
>>When discussing with your friend about travelling around the country and 
>>your geographic names are Kingdoms.
>>
>>					Lord Jason Thorne

    Or, you know which Kingdom a site is in, but not which state.

        --Beatrix zum Dunklenturm
            (this was pointed out by my lord, while reading over
             my shoulder.)

From: lday at access5.digex.net (Lance Day)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKSEITSCAW...
Date: 29 Nov 1995 14:31:08 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA

You know Someone Else is in the SCA when...

You're in the fabric store and you notice someone draping a heavy
burgundy damask over themselves to see how it looks...

And they're in the Upholstery Section.

From which comes the obligatory YK*Y*ITSCAW...
You catch yourself thinking "You know, that *would* make a nice..."

In service,
Lance (the Onomastically Challenged)
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=
Lance W. Day                     | The views expressed above are possibly, but
lday at access.digex.net            | not necessarily those of Bibadee; my cat.
http://www.access.digex.net/~lday| Probability increases if 'food' is implied.

From: Randy Martens <randym at lvld.hp.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW at X--Mas
Date: 21 Dec 1995 19:32:24 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard

You Know Your In The SCA When:

You go to your local discount store the day after christmas and clean them out
of inexpensive christmas tree stands, cause the bowls are 14 gauge steel, and 
just the right shape for shield bosses.

Your family has no trouble buying you presents, because fabric store gift
certificates are easy to come by.

You are checking your luggage in at the airline counter, and the Sky Cap
grabs your duffle bag, grunts when he relizes how heavy it is, and asks
jokingly "What's in here, Armor?" ...

.. and furthermore is not surprised when you answer "yes".

Your christmas tree is decorated with chainmail ornaments, little swords, etc.

Lord Andreas Sydikus Drachenfreund vos Ossenheim

From: sam wise <gamgee at catamart.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW ...
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:11:02 +0000
Organization: Microserve Information Systems (800)-380-INET

On 21 Mar 1996, Bronwynmgn wrote:

> ...when your lord sees a sign that says "Tanning" on a business
> establishment and wonders what kinds of leather they have...
> 
>                                  Bronwyn

OR: you see a sign that says: FENCING and general contracting, and you 
wonder if you should stop and price their foils and epees... 

                 all replies should be sent to:
                      gamgee at catamart.com

From: Sadira <robinson at avana.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCAW....
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 96 15:23:06 PDT
Organization: Avana Communications Corp.

You're driving home from Gulf Wars, you see a sign that says "Meridian  XX 
miles" and you turn to your companion saying,"I thought we were already IN 
Meridies!"

Just a little something lots of sugar and caffeine will cure...

Sadira bint Raya al-Asiri

From: bronwynmgn at aol.com (Bronwynmgn)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW ...
Date: 21 Mar 1996 20:18:08 -0500

...when your lord sees a sign that says "Tanning" on a business
establishment and wonders what kinds of leather they have...

                                 Bronwyn

From: pat at lalaw.lib.CA.US (Pat Lammerts)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCAW ...
Date: 25 Mar 1996 20:28:49 -0500

You see a sign that says:

Knight Security Services

and you wonder, "Is is a security service for knights or
                                          ^^^
one that uses knights as their security force?"

Huette
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Mistress Huette Aliza von und zu Ahrens und Mechthildberg +
+         Ars non gratia artis, sed gratia pecuniae         +
+                     Kingdom of Caid                       +
+        Barony of the Angels, Canton of the Canyons        +
+                   (pat at lalaw.lib.ca.us)                   +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

From: bob at deltanet.com (Bob Clevenger)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA...
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 19:01:15 -0800

kolton at arizona.edU (Jason Kolton) wrote:

>When you get invited to a nice dinner at a friends house and she tells 
>you that its a 'dress nice' dinner and you realize that the best looking 
>clothes you have is your court garb.

....and you wear it!

     -=Bob=- in Ontario, Calif.
             NRA, CRPA, SCA, IOOF, N6MLV         

From: Mario Nigrovic <cyrus at netzone.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA...
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:42:42 +0000

You know you're in the SCA when the local school asks for 
proof of residency to register your daughter for kindergarten 
and the first thing you grab is your Kingdom newsletter (they 
accepted it, too!)
-- 
                                    Melisend
Cindy Nigrovic                       <cyrus at NetZone.Com>

From: bronwynmgn at aol.com (Bronwynmgn)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA...
Date: 14 Apr 1996 12:42:52 -0400

Greetings, all!

Lord Jason Thorn said:
>When you get invited to a nice dinner at a friends house and she tells 
>you that its a 'dress nice' dinner and you realize that the best looking 
>clothes you have is your court garb.

   Or when the best clothes you can find to have a formal portrait
photograph taken in are garb!

                                                               Bronwyn

From: ruby at paltech.com (Debera Rothschild)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA...
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 13:22:04 UNDEFINED
Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info at cais.com 703-448-4470

>Greetings, all!

>Lord Jason Thorn said:

>   Or when the best clothes you can find to have a formal portrait
>photograph taken in are garb!

When the only clothes you have to go to a formal business dinner at your boss' 
house is Court Garb.  And, everyone at the dinner comments on your new dress 
and wonder where they can get one of their own.

Tovah

From: teachmrt at aol.com (Teach Mr T)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA...
Date: 15 Apr 1996 05:56:17 -0400

When a friend tells you her new boyfriend works in a fabric store, and
your first thought is "How cool!"

Liam O'Donndubhain
Barony Beyond the Mountain
Kingdom of the East

From: ttrutyna at mtu.edu (Theron T. Rutyna)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCAW...
Date: 9 Apr 1996 10:35:09 -0400
Organization: Michigan Technological University

	You're playing a Middle Ages based fantasy role-playing game (dnd)
and you're friends declare you're combat move impossible... so you get
into you're armor and prove them wrong!

				Cyveiliog of the Mistig Waetru
				(not so) Stick Jock

From: crouchet at io.com (crouchet)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW...
Date: 10 Apr 1996 21:42:19 GMT

The only time you can see your living room floor is when all the SCA 
stuff is loaded to go to an event.

Savian

From: iainranock at aol.com (IainRanock)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW...
Date: 11 Apr 1996 01:13:42 -0400

In article <4kh9vr$76s at nntp-1.io.com>, crouchet at io.com (crouchet) writes:

>The only time you can see your living room floor is when all the SCA 
>stuff is loaded to go to an event.
>
>Savian

Alternately:  The only time the car will fit into the garage, is when it's
packed to go to a war.

Iain of Rannoch (W-23 days)
"Moving to my fiancee's next week" 

From: angel at unix.tpe.com (angel)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW...
Date: 14 Apr 1996 11:32:03 -0400
Organization: My Provider, Washington DC

You are working at your desk at the EPA, writing a memo about Superfund 
and quoting bits of the regulations, and your eyes keep interpreting
"Subtitles" as "Subtleties". 

From: sjaqua at ix.netcom.com(Scott Jaqua )
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW...
Date: 13 Apr 1996 05:21:36 GMT

In <4kmotp$ppn at netaxs.com> davesg at netaxs.com (David J. Szent-Gyorgyi)
writes: 
>
>Shannon Krysta Ward (skward at acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca) wrote:
>
>... you're furnishing an apartment, and *justify your choice of
>curtain* by saying that you can always turn the fabric into garb
>or pillowcases.  They're mixed cotten and linen, natural, and I
>smile every time I my eyes fall on them.  :-)

    It gets worse-
    When you get a photo from your Russian penpal, and realize that his
wallpaper EXACTLY matches the brocade of your Italian you made for
coronation, and then you espy his curtains, realize they would be
perfect to match the dress, and ask him just how attached he is to
them.
    Allesaundra de Crosthwaite (yes, I have photos of each...)

From: cclark at vicon.net (C. Clark)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA
Date: 17 Apr 1996 16:04:09 GMT
Organization: EMI Communications

This occurred to me just after a conversation with a Scadian whose timing 
was not entirely fortunate:

If you practice birth control religiously from All Saint's Day to 
Candlemas so that you won't be too pregnant to go to Pennsic, you just 
might be a Scadian.

Henry of Maldon/Alex Clark	cclark at vicon.net

From: powers at brain.cis.ohio-state.edu (william thomas powers)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA
Date: 17 Apr 1996 15:56:56 -0400
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science

Wandering over the bridge, looking for a dandy with a lace hanky handy,
(my sini--plural of sinus?--have decided to use my head as a pell), I
overheard Henry of Maldon mention "This occurred to me just after a 
conversation with a Scadian whose timing was not entirely fortunate: 
If you practice birth control religiously from All Saint's Day to 
Candlemas so that you won't be too pregnant to go to Pennsic, you just 
might be a Scadian."

This, of course, reminds me of the corollary:  If you know several people
whose children all seem to be born 3 months before Pennsic---you might
be a Scadian.

Remember: don't go out on the field of love without your armour passing
inspection!

Wilelm whose joy in his marriage to Arianwen precludes having to worry
about such stuff with others and being fixed does not have to worry about
it at all!

From: peterscc at whitman.edu (Chris Petersen)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 15:01:16 -0700
Organization: Whitman College

>When you see an add saying "learn how to make your own bows" and are
>disappointed when you realise they're talking about ribbons.

in college, when you would rather get to know the father of the cute girl
upstairs, because he's a great bowyer.  And of course, I did, and he's
going to teach me how to make a longbow, as well as to shoot it.

>When you buy a TOWN out of rivets.

well, 3 friends and I bought every hardware store in Tacoma (that was
within our price range) out of 14 gage galvanized steel wire when we were
making chainmail.

Cyrillis Desidarius
--- --- ---
   Chris Petersen (xris)             peterscc at whitman.edu
   http://www.whitman.edu/~peterscc/

From: j_mohler at wmc34c.wmc.edu (Jason)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCA
Date: 18 Apr 1996 05:57:02 GMT
Organization: Western Montana College, Dillon MT

When your bible study is going over the armor of God ... and they ask
you to bring examples.

Erik Blackwood

Jason Mohler                       j_mohler at wmc34b.wmc.edu
http://socrates.math.ohio-state.edu/pages/JasonMohler.html

From: Zill/Widow <zill at airmail.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCAW
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 21:53:20 -0500

...you see a mother tenderly picking a splinter out of her son's hand
   with a shortsword...

...you unconcsiously dip your head to the Sr. Vice President of your company
   when you pass her in the hall...

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: destry at netcom.com (Fellwalker)
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW...
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:55:04 GMT

On 29 Apr 1996 17:52:01 GMT, kellogg (kellogg at rohan.sdsu.edu) wrote:

: 	You watch the tape of the new Babylon 5 episode 'A Late Delivery
: from Avalon' over and over just to see if you can find a maker's mark on
: the sword carried by Micheal York. (I don't see one, but my gut reaction
: is that it is a Yeager)

: 		Avenel Kellough

We were too busy trying to figure out if it was real chainmail, and
drooling over his neat cloak. 

--Morgan (Max)
--  ...with rings on her fingers and bells on her toes... <destry at netcom.com>

Sleepy Cat Graphis           http://emporium.turnpike.net/Z/zen/index.html
P.O. Box 608048                     - The Church of Zen Fatalism -
San Diego, CA 92160                      Artful Things Gallery

From: CAT_McGLOTHLIN at smtplink.sagepub.COM (CAT_McGLOTHLIN)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCAW...
Date: 29 Apr 1996 16:49:18 -0400

You know you're in the SCA when....

...an electrical fire starts but doesn't stand a chance of igniting
anything else in your living room because it is behind your husband's
aircraft-aluminum shield blank.  And your first thought is "Good thing
that shield kept the house from burning down... how would we replace
all our garb and feast gear and heraldry books and...."
--
Eilidh Swann of Strathlachlan        **  Darach, Caid (Ventura, CA)
Christine (Cat) McGlothlin Gurkweitz **  cat_mcglothlin at sagepub.com

From: Carrie A Schutrick <caos+ at andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW...
Date: Tue,  7 May 1996 15:10:22 -0400
Organization: Sophomore, English, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>pulling out your wax tablet to write done some one's email adress
>(this was at an event)

  It's worse when you so the same thing mundanely.

  The professor looked at me very oddly...

--Cailfind O'Scolaidhe
___________________________________________________________________
 Carrie Schutrick--caos at andrew.cmu.edu--Pittsburgh PA--CMU--OTP IX'
**********<http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~caos/index.html>**********
  Cailfind O'Scolaidhe-Cour d'Or-Barony Marche Deb. Lands-AEthelmearc

From: jeffebear1 at aol.com (JeffEBear1)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW...
Date: 6 May 1996 13:07:14 -0400

You spen hours looking in a hardware store at pieces of metal going I know
I can do someting with that-

Or you wonder into a sex shop( I'm not weird, my friend worked there)  and
look at the B & D magazines and say " If you only covered the breasts on
this leather bodice it would be really cool for SCA, .. and look at these
thigh high boots although the 8 inch heels would have to go....."   (yes I
did this! My friends complain - "misty only you could go into a sex shop
and look at the costumes!")

You take pads of paper into movies to sketch the costumes (gulity)

You look at someones new couch or curtains and decide they would make a
nice court dress.(gulity)

Buy 15 bicycle cups on sale to make codpieces and wonder why the guy asks
if you need a helmet?
"Why I don't fight" (gulity)

Raid Burger King's supply of crowns for you ADULT friends.

Buy a bottle of booze just for the neat pouch......

Tell you hairdresser you need all your cut hair because you are filling a
snood with hair to wear at events. Or are making braids .

All you can say about "first knight" is TURTLE neck tunics and they must
have had a sale on blue fabric.
(gulity)
the only thing holding your car together is the bumperstickers! 

Morigianna

From: rayotte at badlands.NoDak.edu (Rayotte)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: another YKYITSCAW
Date: 10 May 1996 17:07:05 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Network

You break a mirror while in the bathroom in bare feet and think
	1) Opps seven years of bad luck
	2) Humm these small bits would be great to embroider into some 
late Arab garb

	Later, after picking up the right sized bits you consider the 
possibility of cutting your feet on the glass.

From: Bill Lamp (5/25/96)
To: markh at risc.sps.mot.com
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 23:09:00 -0400
Organization: Lost in Space BBS * (912) 888-6264 
Subject: You know your in...

Unto Stefan li Rous greetings from Vermundr Kurtson!
Feel free to use (or not) these proposed additions to your list. They really
did happen today.

You know your in the SCA when you look at a Sci-Fi/Fantasy paperback and in a
few seconds figure how to take out the mace and shield fighter on the cover.

You know your helmet got too hot during yesterday's demo when you tell a
stranger browsing the same shelf how to do it.

Yours in Service,
L. Vermundr Kurtson
(MKA Bill Lamp)
bill.lamp at lost.com

From: Kitrynn of the Two Swords <103245.1331 at CompuServe.COM>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKITSCAW...
Date: 30 May 1996 03:38:00 GMT

When your favorite birthday present was a roll of that really shiny 
duct tape...

Katherine O'Malley

From: CAT_McGLOTHLIN at smtplink.sagepub.COM (CAT_McGLOTHLIN)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCAW...
Date: 12 Jun 1996 16:37:23 -0400

Forwarded on behalf of ANOTHER coworker:

          You Know You're in the SCA When...

          ...you decide when you're going to move based on when there
          are no wars or tourneys happening...

          Seadna
--
Eilidh Swann of Strathlachlan  **  Darach, Caid (Ventura, CA)
Cat McGlothlin Gurkweitz       **  cat_mcglothlin at sagepub.com

From: Joel Connors <joel at genmagic.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYBITSCATLW
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:54:23 -0700
Organization: General Magic, Inc.

You know....

When your typing a letter referring to a previous evening and have to 
rewrite the word night three times because you keep adding in a 'K'.

My Lady,

Last Knight was wonderful....
-- 
Joel Connors
Teirnion Shadewe ap Gruffydd Llanrhudd

From: rayotte at badlands.NoDak.edu (Rayotte)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA
Date: 9 Jul 1996 19:00:47 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Network

Your talking to someone and they ask a simple question that confuses you..
   "Are you a fan of Prince?"
 
 And you ask in return, "Which one, most I have met are nice guys..."and 
realize they are talking about some modern musician.

From: aislynn647 at aol.com (AISLYNN647)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYBITSCATLW,
Date: 28 Jul 1996 06:34:51 -0400

You reach into your purse and EVERY darn pen in it is a calligraphy pen.
And, you don't even notice as you calmly write out your check in
calligraphy.

But the store clerk noticed and thought I was rather odd....

And I signed my new rent lease in calligraphy, well, it was the only pen
in my purse....

Aine

From: brgarwood at aol.com (BRgarwood)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW
Date: 10 Sep 1996 23:04:52 -0400

You know you're in the SCA when you hear a man say "Whoa, nice legs! Hubba
Hubba!" and he's talking about armor.

Happened tonight watching A&E's Knights and Armor program.

Berwyn
Lord Berwyn AEthelbryght of Ackley,
Rudivale shire, Northshield, Midrealm
BRgarwood at aol.com

Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 21:12:21 -0500
From: Lisa K Deeds <eilinel at juno.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <calontir at unl.edu>
Subject: YKYITSCA....(long)

The current issue of Smoke & Fire News lists the following gems from the
pen of Cathy Johnson, a historical interpreter at Ft. Osage in KC. Enough
are transportable to the SCA that I thought I'd share.
- Eilinel

You Know You're A Re-enactor When:

You have more period clothing in your closet than modern.

You find yourself wearing some of them to the grocery store or the mall
and feeling quite comfortable in them.

You  don't care WHAT the movie reviewer said, if they're wearing costumes
you're GOING.

Your wish list includes a French tulle, and you're not referring to a
prom dress.

You own so many books that your floor joists are beginning to buckle.

You let your hair grow long even though it doesn't really look that good
on you.

You stop shaving your legs and underarms because "they" didn't.

You are more likely to say "good day" than "hi".

Your bill at the fabric store looks like the national debt.

You do a burn test at the fabric store for natural fibers and set off the
smoke alarm.

You have marched around a table fulling a wet wool blanket and singing
"if it wasna for the work o' the weavers, wha' wou' we do".

You pick a bushel of black walnuts, throw away the meats and use the
hulls to dye clothing.

You buy ferrous sulfate tablets at the health food store & use them to
mordant fabric for dyeing.

You actually like a mix of colors and patterns that look pretty garish.

Someone uses the word "shift" and you automatically think of an article
of clothing instead of the hours they work.

Someone says "that's a great coat" and you say "No, this one's a
justacorps".

You want new silver earrings for your birthday - and you're a guy.

You're legally blind, but you try to see out of teeny-tiny little
spectacles.

You haven't worn a girdle since you were fourteen and you actually
consider making a pair of stays (corset).

You insist you're more comfortable wearing said stays.

You steal the squirrels' ear corn & try to parch it.

You prefer parched corn to popcorn.

You consider picking up road kill for its fur.

You know what "plews" are.  (I dunno)

You stand around an unheated log fort all weekend when it's 10 degrees
out. 

You sleep on the ground in a single blanket when it's 4 degrees out.

You know how to make lye soap and like to use it.

Your new car is a van because it's easier to haul your stuff to events.
*************
I recognize myself, my hubby, and any number of friends & acquaintances
here.  The guilty know who you are. :-)

From: zarlor at acm.org (Lenny Zimmermann)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA when
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 22:24:49 GMT

You know when you in the SCA when you see a nun in the grocery store
wearing the habit for her order and think, "Gee, that's really nice
garb that woman has" without thinking twice about the fact that you're
not even at an event. 

My wife did this before she realized what she was looking at and where
she was, just last week. 

Honos Servio,
Lionardo Acquistapace, Barony of Bjornsborg, Ansteorra
(mka Lenny Zimmermann, San Antonio, TX)
zarlor at acm.org

From: anaximander at geocities.com (Mike Huber)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You know you're in the SCA when
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 17:09:49 GMT

Friznitx rec.org.sca ak Tue, 01 Oct 1996 13:30:47 GMT farblik
moondrgn at bga.com (Chris and Elisabeth Zakes)}

> Your reality check comes back marked "insufficient funds".

Nah - lots of us have insufficient funds for reality. YKYITSCA when
that bounce notice isn't a big problem.
##########################################
Anaximander of Xidon
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2111
mail: anaximander at geocities.com

From: andrealt at ix.netcom.com(Andrea Thompson )
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: You know you're a Stick-Jock when....
Date: 8 Oct 1996 17:19:42 GMT

....when you get duct tape in your Christmas stocking!

Ldy. Andrea of Lancaster
Kingdom of Trimaris

From: Quin Hinrichs <flyhrse at goodnet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCA
Date: 17 Oct 1996 02:42:21 GMT

When one of your 5th grade Language Arts students asks you for the 
definintion of the word "Duke" and you reply without thinking, "That's a 
guy who's been King twice."  (Imagine the confused look I got in response 
to that!)

When you can play basketball in a leine, and have done it.

When you yell "Huzzah" after your friend jumps a clean round at a 
horseshow.  (I really did -- talk about embarrassing!)

When you curse in Gaelic, and you aren't Scottish, and you aren't in 
garb.  And, all of your friends know what you are saying when you do it 
and they aren't Scottish either.

When you use your court tabard as a wall decoration.

When you consider it necessary to have a new dress for every event and 
don't think it unusual to stay up until 5:00 the morning before to finish 
it.

When your dog knows what you mean when you say, "Do you want to go to a 
war?" and she runs to get in the car.

When your dog knows how to bow to Royalty.  (Mine really does!)

From: kent and kat dyer <kdyer at nash.tds.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 09:53:57 -0800
Organization: Oak, Ash & Thorn

When not only does your husband have more tights than you do but your 3
year old daughter whines because you didn't get out her garb when
leaving to go somewhere.

Lady Katrine Witan Runa

From: Bill Toscano <toscano at q.continuum.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 10:25:36 -0500
Organization: Continuum Communications Inc.

Shoppong yesterday in western Masschusetts:

We're standing in an upscale you store, and my 13-year-old daughter
walks up to me and says, "Listen to the Music. It's Greensleeves.
Moments later, the 10-year-old daughter comes onto the scene, "Dad.
Isn't this cool. They are playing Greensleeves."

Same store and thankful the clerk didn't ask why I wanted a small foam
pig. How could I say, "My wife was named Most Treacherous Swine" at a
fencing event, and it's for her desk at work.

Used bookstore in an old factory in Montague, Mass.: Clerk looks at my
selections and says, "Is Medieval food really worth eating?"

Why was it just me and my kids? YKYITSCAW your lady spends all Sunday
afternoon teaching fencing in Rhode Island and all Sunday evening as a
fencing student in Boston.

But we get to see each other a lot . . .  at events.

Liam St. Liam
Canton of Dragon's Aerie
Baron Beyond the Mountain
Kingdom of the East

Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 07:59:27 +0000
From: Scot Eddy <seddy at vvm.com>
To: "ansteorra at eden.com" <ansteorra at eden.com>
Subject: YKYITSCAW

I got to see the new Romeo and Juliet last night, what a great show! 
As I watched this came to mind.

YKYITSCAW - you watch what is considered to be the most romantic 
scene ever, the balcony scene, and all you can think is... "What is 
that armor Romeo is wearing?"

Jovian Skleros

From: ltremblay at timestep.com (Larry Tremblay)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCAW
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 14:16:31 GMT
Organization: Ealdormerean Bunny Brigade

You're driving by a store called "Rattan Superstore", and are confused by the 
presence of _furniture_ in the window...

Cheers!
Lars

From: Raven <raven at sierra.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:10:29 -0800

You roll your car and what concerns you most is getting new feast
gear...

From: manth at ozemail.com.au (Aramanth Dawe)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 21:56:07 GMT
Organization: OzEmail Ltd - Australia

You come home to find you have been burgled.  The first thing you
check on is garb and SCA paraphenalia, _then_ check on the stereo and
video...

(BTW - this really did happen to us!)

Aramanth

manth at ozemail.com.au
Aramanth Dawe, 
Adelaide, Australia

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW
From: una at bregeuf.stonemarche.org (Honour Horne-Jaruk)
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 97 11:30:42 EDT

<jehanne at esper.com> writes:
> ..when your "black formal dress with pearls" is Tudor....

        ...When you ask your non-SCA sister what to wear to her 
party, since it's been 20 years since you've even seen a cocktail,
and she says "Either that black-embroidered Russian thing or the
silk slip that goes with your Byzantine..."

        I do love understanding relatives...
                        
                                Alizaunde, Demoiselle de Bregeuf
                                Una Wicca (That Pict)
                                (Friend) Honour Horne-Jaruk, R.S.F.

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: June Lathrop <juliana at nji.com>
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 01:18:49 GMT

...when your daughter asks her dad if he has any tights she can borrow
for her high school play.

Juliana

Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 16:33:23 -0400
From: Mario Carobene <mbc at total.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW

... when you're seriously considering spending $70 for some *nice*
fabric to make a tunic you'll wear once, maybe twice a year...

... and yet you find the same amount excessive for a pair of pants
you'll wear regularly...

... and besides that you're a guy ...

Sebasriano da Pachino
(who is in no way implying that women should find this normal in any
circumstances...)
mka
Mario Carobene
http://ww.total.net/~mbc/

From: stddly at SHSU.edu
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 11:04:10 EST
To: ANSTEORRA at eden.com
Subject: You know you are ...

You know you are in the SCA when

You are an avowed Pagan but consider contributing to the Trinity
Channel just to get that nifty byzantine pendant they are offering.

Lorraine

From: "Ian D. Densmore" <ian at inet.net>
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Date: 2 May 97 21:39:08 GMT

Meghan <"meghan1(antispam)" at mindspring.com> wrote:
> You go th the bookstore looking for light reading and the cashier feels
> sorry for you because "it looks like your rotten lit. teacher is trying
> to ruin your weekend" (picked up the Decammaron, Canterbury Tales and
> Seven Viking Romances:-).
> Meghan

When you WORK at the bookstore solely to get a discount, and end up losing
half your paycheck in the History section every week (but my library is
HUUUUUGE!).

Ian

From: nerak at aol.com (Nerak)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW
Date: 4 May 1997 14:49:30 GMT

When you pitch your personal pavillion on the front lawn to check it for
damage/repair leaks etc. and three days later you get a visit from the
"Codes" department, wanting to know why you had a "Revival" in a area
zoned for family housing only.  

   I had to show the nice man the garage full of tents and armor to
convince him that I was not in the religious tent revival business.

Nerak la Tisserande
Nerak at aol.com

From: Phill Malloch <phill.m at usa.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 22:54:57 +1200

I bounded around a sale table at a bookshop to get my
hands on a copy of "The Complete Book of Fighters."  
I turned out to be about *aeroplanes*.

Adele de Maisieres
beastly at usa.net s.v.p.

From: "Cheri J. Corbett" <rainmaker at sprintmail.com>
To: markh at risc.sps.mot.com
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 20:27:12 -0600
Organization: Raven Images
Subject: Gimme an "O"...

You know you've been in the SCA too long when your company hires a great
motivational speaker for team-building, and when he shouts those great
motivational sayings at you, and you're supposed to shout them back to
him, you end up shouting "OUTLANDS!!!!" and "UFF DA" instead.
(got quite a few stares, too, I might add!)

Lady Sadhbh Ni Donnabhain
Kingdom of the Outlands

From: "Mike Davies" <mdavies at sprynet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCA when...
Date: 22 Jun 1997 09:55:53 GMT

While sitting in a church, waiting for your frind's wedding; you try to
figure the blazons for the stained glass windows.
-- 
Madok ap Davyd

Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 10:49:34 -0400
From: national business college <nbc at d-k.com>
To: markh at risc.sps.mot.com
Subject: YKYITSCAW

You know your in the SCA when you jingle when you walk because you have
your middle-eastern garb on under your dress.

You know your in the SCA when you take your normal dinner candles to
events because you can't afford to buy new feast candles.

YKYITSCAW you make your own candles from old or damaged ones because you
can't afford to buy new ones

				In service to Atlantia,
				Fiona Raynard
				Danville Va 

From: tierna at agora.rdrop.com (Britt )
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW
Date: 13 Aug 97 11:54:05 GMT
Organization: RainDrop Laboratories/Agora(sm)

YKYITSCA when...
     You're coming out of the library after a 5-hour nonstop costuming
     research stretch and note that several modern outfits have a strong
     resemblance to "hmmm, Roman...", "definitely Moorish...", "that's a
     lousy Tudor...", then realize you've just critiqued the folks waiting
     for the commuter train.

- Brangwaine

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 16:02:10 -0600
From: Ed.Hopkins at MCI.com
Subject: YKTYAITSCAIW
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

You know that you are in the Society for Creative Anachronism,
Incororated, when...

You see a TV listing for a movie called, "Embrace of the Vampire",
and for a minute you think it says, "Empire of the Vambrace."

-- Alfredus Scurra

From: lsmithen at chat.carleton.ca (Lucas Smithen)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYAITSCAW
Date: 17 Mar 1998 00:17:30 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

YKYITSCA...
                You've been keeping a nasty worn out leather jacket in closet,
because you know that some day you'll need new leg armor.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Lord Evan QuickTongue
Graham A. Yeates
Email address: evan at skraeling.midrealm.org
----------------------------------------------------------------------

From: "Celestria" <NOdkpirolo at cts.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYAITSCAW was Re: Simplicity Pattern #8192
Date: 23 May 1998 05:35:35 GMT

>  I work at a fabric store so I checked it out.  It looks pretty good to
> me, with a few modifications.  On the largest picture, cut the neckline
> square instead of scooped, and put a corset with it.  The one with the
> big sleeves would make a good underdress for a gates-of-hell or cyclas,
> but it doesn't really look like it goes with that bodice.
> 
> Hugh the Barefoot
> Barony of the South Downs, Meridies

You know you are in the SCA when you read a ng and you assume that the
person discussing in detail why a new dress pattern is or is not period is
a woman.  And then you read the name and are surprised to learn the poster
is a man. Then you think to yourself  "But this is the SCA just why should
that surprise me?"  And then you smile.  
Celestria

From: salley at niktow.canisius.edu ()
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYISCA
Date: 30 Jun 1998 02:04:51 GMT
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo, NY  14208

Rebecca Fildes wrote:
> You know you're in SCA when...
> ...you use the word 'Hold' to stop your toddler from doing something
> they shouldn't.

Toddler???  A toddler will pick the concept up by osmosis from his
surroundings.  What's impressive is when the _dogs_ learn what 'Hold!' means
:-) :-)
-- 
                                                        -- Dagonell

From: feedrus at aol.com (Feedrus)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYISCA
Date: 30 Jun 1998 03:27:52 GMT

>Toddler???  A toddler will pick the concept up by osmosis from his
>surroundings.  What's impressive is when the _dogs_ learn what 'Hold!' means
>:-) :-)

Your Dog understands "HOLD" I can do you one better.. My CAT understands HOLD.

Duncan

From: Jim Fox-Davis <firedrake at earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA...
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 16:50:16 -0800

JULIE ELAINE SIERACKI wrote:
> YKYITSCA when your helmet sits next to your [military combat] helmet on your 
> wall locker and you have to explain that you tried to register your sword with 
> the Provost Marshal but they don't register 'knives' (so the arms room won't
> store it because you can't prove it's registered).  Or when you are trying
> to explain a particularly nasty bruise or sprain to the medics. 

I had surgery on my shoulder a couple of weeks ago, and the doctor, when he
heard that my hobbies included beating people over the head with a sword, added
more stitches and included seven staples.  When he saw pictures of me in armor,
now he wants to come to an event!

Jared Blaydeaux
Caid

From: moondrgn at bga.com (Chris and Elisabeth Zakes)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 02:26:34 GMT

Every time you see an ad for the "Bow Flex" exercise machine, the
first thing you think of is siege equipment, not body-building.

        -Tivar Moondragon
                Ansteorra

C and E Zakes
Tivar Moondragon (Patience and Persistence)
and Aethelyan Moondragon (Decadence is its own reward)
moondrgn at bga.com

[Submitted by: "Philippa Alderton" <phlip at bright.net>]
From: Berwyn <LordBerwyn at ibm.net>
To: northshield at minstrel.com <northshield at minstrel.com>;
sca-middle at midrealm.org <sca-middle at midrealm.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 11:39 AM
Subject: [Mid] YKYITSCAINW

>You Know you're in the SCA in Northshield when---
>
>I was shopping the other day when I heard a little kid shout "Mommy,
>Look, a Viking chair!"
> I was gratified that one so young would be so excited about the
>ubiquitous SCA seat, but wondered why Menards would carry such a
>thing.  Nearly gave myself whiplash turning to look.  There was the
>young Minnesota football fan pointing to a big purple and yellow
>beanbag.
>
>Berwyn
>=======
>             Lord Berwyn AEthelbryght of Ackley
>           Rudivale Shire, Northshield, Midrealm
> Bert Garwood    Grand Forks, ND  lordberwyn at ibm.net

From: bjncarey at aol.com (BJNCarey)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCAW
Date: 22 Jan 1999 05:57:36 GMT

You know you're in the SCA when

you're watching Animaniacs late at night and they're doing a "segment" on the
Christmas nativity and you find yourself wondering if the necklines on Mary and
Joseph's tunics are period.

Agnes

From: "Getty" <hilight at pclv.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: ykyitscaw
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:49:29 -0800

Your silver grey and black mackeral tabby cat walks by and your first
thought is "Barry, sable and argent".
Lady Beatrice Morgana

From: jaysmom [jaysmom at swbell.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:59 AM
To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
Subject: [Ansteorra] You know you're in the SCA when . . .

You know you're in the SCA when . . .

I'm sitting at my son's end-of-year awards assembly at school, his name gets
called, and I have to fight the urge to "escort him into Court"!!

Simone

From: Jesus Cavazos [toshirokoi at hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:41 PM
To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] You know you're in the SCA when . . .

Now from my wife;
You know you've been in the SCA too long when you find yourself signing up
for Fall classes, based on what you can use in the SCA...

                    AND

You know you've been around too long when you take the kids' pictures off
the wall so you can hang your newest award...

From: tmcd at panix.com (Timothy McDaniel)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCAW ...
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 19:32:09 +0000 (UTC)

You Know You're In The SCA When ...

... you see the BBC headline at
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3002003.stm>

    Colombia drugs baron on trial

and you think that it contains a verb.

Daniel de Lincolia
-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com; tmcd at us.ibm.com is my work address

From: mamidael at hotmail.com (Lady Mamid)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA when...
Date: 7 Jul 2003 21:55:09 -0700

......you dress your son in t-tunics in mundania cause its easier to
change his diaper...

.............and you have to keep on correcting people that he's not a
she....

..................but you really don't care cause people are saying
the garb looks good.

From: jpmiaou at aol.comedy (JPmiaou)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Date: 07 Mar 2004 05:57:33 GMT
Subject: YKYITSCAW

You know you're in the SCA when seeing the phrase "register your device" in a
mundane context makes you doubt your own sanity for several long moments.
(It was on Yahoo's mail filters setup page, in the context of using a "mobile
device" to check email.)

From: bronwynmgn at aol.comnospam (Bronwynmgn)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Date: 28 Apr 2004 22:09:01 GMT
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW

>A vehicle goes by and you hear your children cry out in glee "Mommy! 
>Mommy!  They've got an SCA sticker! They've got an SCA sticker!" 

Slight variant on that:

You are driving down the road and find yourself behind a car with a big sticker
across the bottom of the back window that says DUKE, and you start wondering
which Royal peer is driving it...

(Took me several minutes to realize that it was a Duke University sticker!)

Brangwayna Morgan

From: Elizabeth Mullaney <e.mullaney at ucalgary.ca>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:25:02 -0600
Organization: University of Calgary

Bronwynmgn wrote:
> You are driving down the road and find yourself behind a car with a big sticker
> across the bottom of the back window that says DUKE, and you start wondering
> which Royal peer is driving it...
>
> (Took me several minutes to realize that it was a Duke University sticker!)

This is my SCA sticker story; and it happened to me, which makes it more fun.

I was driving on a major route here in Calgary with a non-SCA friend. She was in
the throes of a very unpleasant divorce, and we were worriedly discussing this,
when she said, 'Ummm - do you know those people? I think they know you!' and
pointed. I looked to the truck next to me, and there were indeed two young guys
waving madly, making the 'secret dishwashing signal' (people in our household tend
to be dishwashers at feasts, keeps us busy and useful), and yelling 'Nan!!' at the
top of their voices. They had just moved here, had no one's phone numbers, and saw
my sticker. The fact that we knew each other was a bonus. I yelled my phone number
at them - it was a busy road - and they called me later, and went from there.

And I am proud to say that the driver is now a very good friend, and the current
Dragonslayer champion of Montengarde - Kraig Landenthal. ;-)

In service,
Nan Compton, OP

From: booksbybrittany at aol.com (Hawke)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCA
Date: 19 Jan 2004 16:42:43 -0800

Some more that have popped up...

 ... you know the measurements of all of your friends; it makes it
easier to make holiday presents

... you had to make a second email account for all of the SCA mailing
groups you're part of

...your mother no longer asks what you're doing ever night. It's
something with the SCA, and that's all she wants to know.

... the restaurant where the barony goes after meetings now expects
you, and sets up tables in the back so you won't scare the other
customers

... said restaurant also now reminds people to sign their checks with
their mundane names, after one particularly amusing night

... and said restaurant has also finally stopped asking us if we're in
a play

...you've given up unpacking your armour from your car. Between
practices and events, it's just not worth it.

... you have to explain to the parents whose children your babysitting
why the children are singing in latin (it was the only thing I could
think of to sing them to sleep!)

From: Heather Murray <margaretnorthwode at worldnett.attANTISPAM.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:56:27 GMT

> ... you have to explain to the parents whose children [you're] babysitting
> why the children are singing in latin (it was the only thing I could
> think of to sing them to sleep!)

...when you begin attending master gardener's classes through the Ag 
Extension and unintentionally stump the (doctoral) teacher on the first 
night when you ask about how well they think nigella/Grains of Paradise 
will do in the area.

...when you do it again in asking for a local source for withy brakes 
for making a raised bed. (::sigh:: I'll have to make it myself, looks 
like - fortunately, there's a willow in town in sore need of trimming 
and I'll ask the owner if I can "help." Another A&S project for the books.)

...when you move into a new *apartment,* and your homeowner friends are 
all jealous of the extra crafts room.

...when you're looking for real estate, and you comment to your mate on 
how good your realtor is when she has learned to comment on possible 
sites for a knot garden or a small keep.

...when your realtor makes you aware of any communities where there are 
time limitations on building new constructions because you told her in a 
car ride how long it can take to properly build the keep. She doesn't 
even show you the ones with "no new buiding" restrictions.

Margaret Northwode

From: John Campbell <jcampbel at lynn.ci-n.com>
Organization: Campbell Industries
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCA
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:44:33 GMT

... when your car has gotten mired in slippery slush/ice/mud slop, and
you solved this problem by tossing a mail hauberk under a drive wheel
for traction.
-- 
AEthelwulf of Mountain Freehold
mka John Campbell
jcampbel at lynn.ci-n.com

From: "Mellissa Allison" <muddles at holycow.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 06:08:07 GMT

...you sign your SCA name on your cheque and don't notice anything wrong.

Elspeth
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lady Elspeth Selwode of Wilton - MoAS, Lionsdale
Student to HL Johanna Katarina Morgenstocher

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:28:26 -0400
From: Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
Subject: [Sca-cooks] You know you might be an SCA cook when
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>

You might be an SCA cook when...

- You can provide all the cooking gear and serving gear for a feast for
50 or a casual mundane luncheon for 75 out of your basement. Not
counting stuff that belongs to your local shire.
- your mundane brother who has worked in catering doesn't know where to
pick up disposable chafer pans, but you do.
- the date began to go downhill when the waitress said, "... and honey
butter..."
- You have things in your fridge or freezer from feasts that occurred
before the millenium-- and they are still edible.
- you go shopping because 'there's nothing to eat in the house,' but
can't fit anything in the cupboards because they are bursting with 
medieval cooking supplies
- You have carefully explained to the waitress that no, the rosemary on
the steak would NOT make it too peppery, while everyone else at the
table choked into their napkins.
- You have walked into the kitchen at your mundane brother's wedding and
the caterer thought you were with the site.
- You have shown up to the rehearsal at a wedding in your girlfriend's
family and told her she could find you in the kitchen with the caterer
when she was done.
- The little snacky things you provided for the bride's retinue when you
were matron of honor were more lavish than the wedding dinner
- you have ever found yourself explaining period blancmange or similar
type of dish to a stranger on some form of public transport (plane, bus,
taxi, line at amusement park)
- Your idea of a great day's shopping is a variety of discount food
stores, farmer's markets, and Restaurant supply stores...
- you have voluntarily gone food shopping with Juliana von Altenfeld
more than once-- but the second time you wore running shoes. :)
- your idea of 'whipping up a little something' for a potluck would
supply 6 bachelors several 3 course meals.
- you have a mental index of places to buy food cheaply that are more
than 40 miles away from your home...
-- 
-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 

From: tmcd at panix.com (Tim McDaniel)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: YKYITSCAW headline
Date: 14 Oct 2004 23:34:24 -0500

YKYITSCAW you see the headline

    Vandals blamed for Gothic hall fire

and think "Rome is saved by barbarian in-fighting!"

(The true story is sadder:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/3741820.stm>
Nobody was hurt, but a beautiful hall dating to the 1860s was
destroyed.)

Danielis de Lindonio
-- 
Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com

From: g young <gwynethb at hotmail.com>
Date: November 15, 2004 7:58:00 PM CST
To: bryn-gwlad at ansteorra.org
Subject: [Bryn-gwlad] been doin' this too long

You know you've been in the SCA too long when you go to the weather channel page and type in BORDERMARCH for a search and can't understand why it's not getting you the forecast.

gwyneth

From: Sandy Straubhaar <orchzis at hotmail.com>
Date: February 24, 2007 11:50:58 AM CST
To: bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org
Subject: [Bryn-gwlad] You Know You're In the SCA When. . .

[just did this]

You find yourself using your lord's main-gauche to coax the Roomba robot 
vacuum out from under the bed.

brynhildr

From: Chris Zakes <dontivar at gmail.com>
Date: March 15, 2008 10:10:24 PM CDT
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Where is everyone.

> You can never have to many knives, sword, sharp pointy things. or  
> guns.
> plachoya

You Know You're In The SCA When...

You own more weapons than shoes.

          -Tivar Moondragon
                  Ansteorra

From: "Oakes, George" <goakes at tiresplus.com>
Date: June 18, 2009 12:21:53 PM CDT
To: <marcaster at yahoogroups.com>, <trimaris-temp at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "Joy Oakes" <loved.bythem at yahoo.com>, <kisses_fromangles at yahoo.com>, "Christin Beron" <christin_beron at yahoo.com>

I actually did this last night!  

You know you're a Scadian when you get out of the shower, towel dry, and  throw on your most comfortable Tunic to lounge around the house in....  

  Gavin  

From: Vicky Eisenstadt <alysounJ at gmail.com>
Date: June 18, 2009 3:49:38 PM CDT
To: trimaris-temp at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tri-temp] You know you're a Scadian when...

Or practice footwork with the bread knife...  

Date: June 19, 2009 11:28:25 AM CDT
To: trimaris-temp at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tri-temp] I just need to share this.

> I had to have a serious conversation with my 3 year old 
> granddaughter on why I was wearing a dress because I am a boy 
> and boys don't wear dresses. 

Our washing machine was on the fritz, so I had to take our post event garb down to a local laundromat. While folding the now clean clothes, I heard a little girl "whisper" to her mother, "Mommy, that boy has a dress!"  "That probably belongs to his wife," was the reply. 

I just smiled and chuckled, 'cause I knew that that ankle length tunic was mine...  

Turold  

From: Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com>
Date: May 27, 2010 10:57:58 AM CDT
To: Barony of Bryn Gwlad <bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org>
Subject: [Bryn-gwlad] You Know You're In The SCA When ...

You Know You're In The SCA When ...

... you see a Mennonite woman and immediately think "I love doing
lower/middle class late period, but did you have to use *snaps*?"

... the woman in charge of a church is approaching, and you want to
point it out to your non-SCA sister, and *to save your life* you
cannot think of any other term than "priestess".

Footnotes:

I have no real costuming knowledge.  I don't know why I thought "late
period".  Perhaps because it was well-fitted with lots of seams,
including two up the front over the chesticles?  Maybe the bonnet?
Maybe because she wasn't wearing ropes of amber and carrying a spear?

My sister says that, in the Methodist Church, all members are
"ministers".  The lady in question is properly called the "pastor".

Denyel de Lyncoln
-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com

From: SCA Newcomers list <scanewcomers at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: What do you do with your toddler? :)
Posted by: "Traci Earhart" randtearhart at yahoo.com randtearhart
Date: Wed Jan 5, 2011 8:38 pm ((PST))

My favorite is "You know you are in the SCA when your standard of living improves when you go camping".

Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:12:54 +1000
From: Anika Page <anika.page at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Lochac] When are you no longer a newcomer in the SCA?
To: "The Shambles: the SCA Lochac mailing list"
	<lochac at lochac.sca.org>

I'm reminded of all the "you know you're in the SCA when..." stories...

You know you're in the SCA when you admire a girls hemline because you
haven't seen that stitch before.

You know you're in the SCA when your spellchecker knows how to spell
Bransle, and you know how to pronounce it.

You know you're in the SCA when you return to work on monday, only to find
you left all your money in your belt pouch...

--Anika/Lyssa

September 18 at 10:49am · 
SCA Facebook group

Little Kender
I scrolled way back and didn't find this, so maybe it's time to start another thread; let's get some new responses: You know you're in the SCA when...

Shanan Winters 
Your daughter places her recurve bow very lovingly next to her American Girl doll.

Frederick Padraig MacRaighne Fenters 
When you post the FB game about 1 word of how we met... and 90% of the answers are "SCA"

Taija Paju 
When your 4-year-old takes it for granted that she has to have an underdress underneath the dress and will not go to an event without it.

Tim Belcher 
Your shrink asks if you have any weapons and after listening to the list asks if you have any "modern" weapons.

Aislinn Cravenhest 
When you pause your medieval movie to look at the trim, take a picture and then go search for a merchant for a similar trim.

Kimberly Vital 
When you get rosetta stone just to learn a language your persona would know.

Kas Hamilton 
When you get mad at rosetta stone for not having a language your persona would know.

Kimberly Vital 
When your kids get into an argument and one shouts "thats it! put on your armor!"

Diana Shell Wertz 
You absentmindedly say 'Excuse me, mi lord' to some guy at Club Med on the Greek Isle of Cofu. ~ (me) c. 1984

Diana Shell Wertz 
When your 17 year old pokes his nose in the camp kitchen to coax (re. a dance class) his 12 year old brother (who's helping in the kitchen) to "Come on out here, Shawn,...there's GIRLS !" and the 12 year old replies "There's girls in Here, TOO,...and FOOD !!!!! I Ain't Leaving !!!!!"

Diana Shell Wertz 
When you're 23 Y.O gets home from the Navy and starts hinting like crazy for your 'help' in finding him an SCA 'wife' because he's decided he's ready to be a husband and father, but he doesn't want a mundane bride,......a few years later, his younger brother comes to you and makes the same request, for the same reasons,.....

Aislinn Cravenhest 
When you take your Bardic disks to work and everyone around treats you like you have the Plague and they start a Music War with Country Music.

Bill Benson 
When you bow to your Commanding Officer... You know that he's cool when he bows back!

Peter Apted 
You can't walk in the front door without tripping over archery, rapier and/or heavy combat armour and/or weapons .... in my casse all of the above.

Aemiliana Mac 
When job hunting, you seriously debate taking a job with almost no weekends and nights off.

Pat Auten 
Or by location of an SCA group!!

Little Kender 
What's to debate? No way I'd take a job working weekends, it would drive me insane!

Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:39:39 +1300
From: "katherine kerr" <vicki at webcentre.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [Lochac] Lochac Digest, Vol 59, Issue 11
To: lochac at lochac.sca.org

<<< As far as I am aware the earliest common SCA usage of the word 'hoik' [to hoist up sharply] started in the early days of Lochac and was specifically used to describe the upward adjustment of ones decolotage as one was being laced into a corset or tight frock. I was using it in 1985 in Stormhold. >>>

Must be a Continental usage.

Best story relating to that particular adjustment requirement, was hearing a gentleman relate how he'd come into the Great Hall at Faire to see a young lady doing just that and found himself sniggering because he could see her ankles.....then he went "Wha..?? Ankles???!"

The SCA can change the way you see the world.

Katherine
=====================================
katherine kerr of the Hermitage, in the Crescent Isles,
Barony of Southron Gaard, Kingdom of Lochac

From: Jenna <southwindhall at AOL.COM>
Subject: [CALONTIR] YKYITSCAW
Date: August 13, 2012 10:11:36 AM CDT
To: CALONTIR at listserv.unl.edu

You Know You're In The SCA When:  

You are watching 75,000+ people in Olympic Stadium singing along with Eric Idle, "Keep On the Sunny Side of Life" and as the roller-skating nuns go past and the Roman legionaries line up to do a very bad can-can dance you comment, "Those aren't Roman scutums - they're Viking center-grip shields!"

(And if you are old-time Calontiri you start singing from Erich's "Fighter's Alphabet Song", "V is for Vikings with center-grip shields....")

Jenna

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