[MR] hearing from laurels and responses to "that's not period"

[Alianora Munro]

--- Becky McEllistrem <bmcellis at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Maybe someone on the laurel's list should compile a
> list of obnoxious comments they've received and
> chose
> to ignore as inspiration to those of us that are not
> laurels.  I think it could be depressing but also
> downright funny to realize that this was a comment
> they receive and yet achieved the highest A&S order
> SCA has to offer.

I think it would be just as good to share those
comments on *this* list.  So here are two I received
at various points in my career.

(1) Upon showing up at a competition with an item and
a short documentation packet:  "You shouldn't have
bothered.  Documentation isn't required for this
competition."  Um, gee.  Does that mean that
documentation is prohibited, or that actively trying
to make sure that I am doing the medieval thing is a
waste of time?

(2) Then there were the comments received from a
brewing competition in which I entered my very first
effort at winemaking.  I had made the effort to get as
close to the correct ingredients as I could, meaning I
had purchased juice of a particular wine grape,
selected a particular strain of yeast, and done a
couple of other very specific things, which I detailed
in 2 typed pages of documentation.  I was told:  "Next
time, instead of using a kit, buy grape juice and pick
your own yeast strain."  But that's what I DID!!!!!!

FWIW, I enjoy competitions, but I have, in the course
of my SCA career, only won 2.  I have also competed
and lost at many more dog shows than I have won.  :-)
Around the AKC world, there is a saying:  "Winning or
losing is the opinion of one person on one day."
Tomorrow's show can be (and usually is) entirely
different.  The same goes for the SCA -- just because
Judge X didn't like my 15th C German Froboz doesn't
mean that researching and making Frobozzen is a waste,
or that everyone in the SCA thinks so.  It's one
person's opinion, on one day.

Alianora, OL

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