Eldern Hills Tourney

[P. Crandall Polk]

Tim McDaniel wrote:

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> The "adding their badge" looks somewhat like an augmentation of arms.
> BTW, is it adding the group's badge to the Centurion banner, or the
> Centurion's badge to the group's banner?  Is it only for that year?

I understood that the group badge will be added to the "ribbon". It will
show what group has won the ribbon. An heraldic honor roll, if you will.
Or a "chaplet of maintenance".

> 1) X is a Good Thing.
> 2) We should reward those who do it.
> 3) This reward has to be a new award or order with a name and a dangly
>    and a place in the order of precedence.
> I agree with steps 1 and 2, and wholly disagree with 3.

I did not understand that it added precedence. It is a group fighting
cookie, and as such a GOOD THING.

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> Or am I just a stick-in-the-mud curmudgeon to worry about such things?

No. You just sometimes read things out of proportion. As I do. Some of
(our) reactions tend to emphasise the micron and forget the universe.

Crandall

p.s. You cannot be a curmudgeon until you have been Over the Hill (30),
An Old Fart (40), An Old Coot (50), and then a Curmudgeon (60).
Check with the Bjornsborg Standards of Aging for further information.