[MR] Poor judging comments

[Rowanwald Central]

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> Sponsor a "most offensive or rude judging comment" contest
> and be the judge of it. Challenge others to come up with a
> worse story.  In other words, make fun of those who would make
> such rude comments. I'll contribute a prize.  I suggest that a contest
> rule be that the comment was made to the contestant, not a "friend"
> or a "friend of a friend".
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> Andras

My story wouldn't win any prizes, but it is what caused me to be agreeable
to acting as a judge (those who know me may be surprised to learn that I
*hate* judging. I shake, I get sweaty palms, I spend the whole time I'm
doing it worrying about the angry/upset/whatever reaction of each and every
person that I have to judge, and no matter how polite and kind I've tried to
be, I've still ended up hearing about someone collapsing in tears because I
didn't  shout to the skies how great and perfect their item was.)

    I once entered a decorated box in a small A&S competition in another
barony (kinda hard for the Baroness to do that in her own barony). It was
the first and last competition that I entered. I'd researched decorative
techniques for small boxes and caskets - used one technique to decorate a
purchased box and entered it, along with the three small 3x5 cards that we
were told to use to jot down our documentation, carefully remarking in the
first line and in the display card that the box was store-bought.

    Of the three judges, two complimented me on the construction of the box
and one evidently didn't bother to read the documentation, even though it
was only one three small cards, because they down-checked the decoration by
stating that in their opinion, the decorative motifs would not have been
found in the area that I'd documented them from.

 That was my last competition, though not my last belly-laugh.

 Rosine