[MR] Re: Comments Contest

[ELAINE KOOGLER]

Or, one that I experienced when I sent an Uchikake (formal Japanese
overkimono) to a competition at a war we used to have with Trimaris:  I
did this specifically at the Queen's request (this was a number of
years back) because she wanted lots of entries in the A&S from
Atlantia.  I indicated in my documentation that I could not provide
pictures of early examples of ths garment as there were "...no extant
examples", which means that there just aren't any that are still in
existence to photograph.  Also, there aren't really any paintings that
showed what I needed to show.  I received the comment that I should
have included photographs of examples!   Hmmmmm.    Did we READ the
supplied (required) documentation?????

Kiri


----- Original Message -----
>
> Message: 4
> From: "Lisa and Ken Theriot" <lnktheriot at cox.net>
> To: <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:44:25 -0500
> Subject: [MR] Comments contest
>
> Andras wrote:
>
> [Sponsor a "most offensive or rude judging comment" contest and be the
> judge of it.]
>
> You'd actually need several categories, "outright rudeness" ("stupid"
> and "has no place in the SCA" is going to be hard to beat), "most
> demoralizing", "most incomprehensible", etc.  My husband is one of
> thosepeople who eschew contests in large part because of
> commentary received
> in previous tries; these two came from East Kingdom judges:
>
> Most demoralizing: on trying to enter an original song, he was told,
> "That falls into 'communicative arts', so it will be judged with the
> research papers, and since you can't possibly compete with the
> documentation points the research papers usually get, you might as
> wellnot bother to enter."
>
> Most incomprehensible: on entering a cooking contest with a
> version of
> "Pears in wine", which were carefully arranged in a glass bowl and
> meticulously decorated with pomegranate seeds, receiving the comment,
> "Next time work a little harder on presentation."  (Short of dusting
> them with gold or teaching them to stand up and whistle "Dixie",
> he was
> somewhat at a loss as to what else he could have done!)
>
> Laughing at them sure beats crying over them!
>
>
> Adelaide