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<DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#ff0000 size=2><SPAN class=421032622-31052002>well
i am certainly glad that someone can read without knee jerking and getting bent
out of shape. thank you eogan as you have saved me from my overwhelming
desire to point out how crazy some of the arguments against my opinion have
been. most private but some public.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#ff0000 size=2><SPAN class=421032622-31052002>i
will say one thing about those "cheap", "comfortable", "convenient",
"lightweight", very modern nylon chairs. four years ago i made 12
benches. they cost me $120 total. we built them in two days (the
varathane had to dry between coats). i had all the wood precut for free at
home depot. we use them every weekend and for two weeks at pennsic.
four years later i have 10 of them (one got chewed up by one of my dogs).
ive had the two largest members of my household sit on one of them at the same
time (around 600lbs). the smallest member of my household (less than
100lbs 4' 11") can easily carry two of them at a time. i can pack two of
them easily in the trunk of my honda where they make a nice box to put things
in. last time i checked those nylon chairs run $25 at wal mart here
in charlotte. thats a savings of $180 and they look
ok.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#ff0000 size=2><SPAN class=421032622-31052002>an
attempt is not what i am concerned with. its the blatant and avoidable
modern items that make this organization less credible and less enjoyable.
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<DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#ff0000 size=2><SPAN
class=421032622-31052002>logan</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
atlantia-admin@atlantia.sca.org [mailto:atlantia-admin@atlantia.sca.org]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>EoganOg@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 31, 2002 5:08
PM<BR><B>To:</B> atlantia@atlantia.sca.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [MR] raising
and lowering expectations<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT
size=2>I realize that His Majesty does not need anyone to jump to his defense,
but this is rediculous. Here he is, on a medieval re-enactment list,
talking to a group of medieval re-enactors, and he comments that he is seeing
too many blue jeans, mountain dew bottles, and nylon camping chairs at events
(in court even). And he gets jumped on for this? <BR><BR>I read his
message. It didn't sound to me like he was calling for the exclusion of
anyone who can't go 100% period. He just said it was a "disturbing
trend" that people are being more and more lax in their authenticity. I
have noticed the same disturbing trend. <BR><BR>Yes, all we are required to do
is make a "reasonable attempt" at pre-1600 garb. But when you see
someone walking around at noon on Saturday, in the main event area, in a
Pennsic t-shirt and jeans, and you know he has half a dozen changes of garb,
is he making a reasonable attempt? <BR><BR>Folks, we are not talking about the
newcomer with a tabard thrown over his mundane clothes here. We are
talking about long time participants in the SCA who just don't seem to showing
the same amount of zeal for the atmosphere of an event as they used to.
And, as one person has already stated from first-hand experience, this
can have the undesired effect of discouraging newcomers to aspire to more
period garb and accouterments. <BR><BR>The result? An increasing trend
toward the mundane. This isn't just a camping party in the woods.
It's re-enactment, re-creation, whatever you want to call it. We
have to at least be able to pretend we are living in the past. <BR><BR>If you
want to have your nylon chairs, plastic 2-liter soda bottles, and wear a
Hawaiian shirt and flip-flops at your private camp, go for it. No one
will complain. But when you are in or near the main site, please *try*
to dress in period. Pour your coke into a mug or tankard. And if
you have to sit on a nylon camp chair, because you can't buy/build/borrow a
more period seat, that's fine. We won't burn you at the stake. But
it should not be the *norm*, and this is the fact that His Majesty is
bemoaning. <BR><BR>Aye, <BR>Eogan Og <BR><BR>Tighearn Eoghan Og mac Labhrainn,
CP, OPE <BR>http://www.albanach.org <BR>Sacred Stone Pursuivant <BR>Web Master
for the Canton of Hawkwood <BR>"Checky Or & Vert, two lions combatant,
tails knowed, in base a mouse couchant, all within an orle of roundels,
Argent."</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>