Why I Hate Fencing

[harry billings]

Corp. by laws states some thing to the effict that Raper fighting is not
within the time frame of the SCA and their for shall not be used to determin
a cornet list, or some thing like that.  I saw some thing about it on the
Ansteorra list during the Principality (sp) debate.
As for a peerage for Dons / Dona ( their is a ~ over the n but I don't know
how to make my machine do that) sound good to me. I feel that if one is
created then all Dons / Dona should be included or an entirely new title
should be given to those in the peerage. 
Yes.
NO.

>Which makes me think: is there not people of the Rapier Fighting style out
>there that _have_ some great skill in their art (rapier fighting) and have
>made a sizable impact on the people around them?
>
>I favor "chivalric" fighting, but rapier fighting is prized by many of my
>friends. I understand that the only way to become King/Queen (get 'em
>Rowan) is to win at Crown Tourney, so that is obviously giving an
>indication of a mild bias on the Crowns' way of thought. But should we give
>serious consideration to the formation of a new peerage? Should the
>position of Don be elevated to being a peer? If so, should all Dons (and
>forgive me, but I know not the feminine (boy am I going to catch it for
>that one) form of Don), be elevated to peer status, or should they be
>re-avaluated(sp?) for the position of peer? If they are re-avaluated for
>peer status, should a new (and unused) title be coined? Should the Queen
>begin petitioning the peerage for the formation of this new status? Or
>should I shut up and run and hide the Highland way?
>
>Angus "The Curious" mac Taggart
>
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>> From: Chris Walden <cmwalden at flash.net>
>> 
>>  Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace wrote:
>> 
>> > Let's
>> > try "the result that fencers with peerages FOR FENCING are about as
>> > common as three-headed sheep." Well, maybe TWO-headed sheep.
>> 
>> There have not been peerages for fencing because the powers that be 
>> have not seen fit to make one.  But then a peerage isn't really made 
>> for one activity, is it?  It's based (theoretically) on the ability 
>> in one's art, and the way in which they shape the people around them.
>> 
>> Antoine
>
>
Plachoya Sobaka a most insignificant archer in Ravens Fort