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Re: SCAdians (was: some train thing)
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Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:58:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, John D. Forinash writes:
> In article <GCBqo0.CGL@lugnet.com>,
> James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote:
> > A member (or just participant) in the Society for Creative Anachronism. We
> > go out and do all things medieval except the bad parts. (unless you count
> > politics as one of the bad parts, 'cause we do that in spades...)
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> And when he says _all things_, he means all things. They're planning on
> killing off 1/3-1/2 of their members with the plague and then switching
> to all things Renaissance... :)
I think plague counts as one of the "bad parts", so we ignore that. And I'd
never switch to all things Renaissance... you'll never catch me waving
around one of those silly pokey swords, and wearing fruffly clothing.
<grin, duck>
James
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| (...) Only if you don't target the people making things political. :) (...) But in the Renaissance, armor and weapons got so much more elegant. Of course, this was largely because the cannon of the king and the arquebus of the common foot soldier (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: SCAdians (was: some train thing)
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| (...) Thinking of various sorts of weapons and dress reminded me of the group which performed at the SF con we had back in October. They are a group who do staged combats using close to real weapons (I don't think they're sharp). They were quite (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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