ANST - SCA Partially Responsible for Y2K Craze?

[John Fallock]

I must come to the defense of REV WAR re-enactors!  We are just as 
anachronistic as SCAdians - remember, the main purpose of a 17th century 
musket was only to fire off a few shots while advancing so we could a reach 
a place where we could charge with our bayonets - a glorified spear!  I 
can't help it if we are technologically advanced!

Your humble servant,

John Fallock
Private & Paymaster, 6th Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Line
(& former SCAdian)

"To one that is your equal, or not much inferior, you are to give the chief 
place in your lodging; & he to who it is offered ought at the first to 
refuse it, but at the second to accept, though not without acknowledging 
his own unworthiness."
			Rule No. 32 from George Washington's "Rules of Civility & Decent 
Behavior
			in Company & Conversation"


-----Original Message-----
From:	Jeff Smith [SMTP:jeffsmith2000 at hotmail.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, November 30, 1999 4:22 AM
To:	ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG; johnf at unitedwayglv.org
Subject:	Re: ANST - SCA Partially Responsible for Y2K Craze?

Valstarr Hawkwind sent:

>    Over the recent holiday, I visited with a sister who is a secondary
>teacher. She told me of a news account, which may have been CNN or
>MSNBC, that may have blamed the SCA for at least part of the Y2K place
>in the public image. I don't remember all the particulars, but I think
>she said something of the report talking of how we re-create a favorable
>image of the Middle Ages, instead of all the grim details from the era.
>    Pardon me if somebody else has already posted on this. If not, did
>any of you see it and have further details?

I hadn't heard this, but if CNN's Lynn Russell wants to interview me, I'm
available!

This really is odd, if you think about it.  Because we (according to their
argument) glamorize medieval life, the (suspected) computer catastrophes of 
the so-called Y2K bug is our fault.  There's a huge gap in logic here
somewhere.

I think it's really those Rev War re-enactors!  Those triangle hats (usisng 
a form of pyramid power) send cosmic symbols to aliens, who will attack us
after the Y2K thing crashes our computers.  This is *clearly* the end of 
the
world, unless you can fight with a halberd!

My guess is that the news account, if there was one, was in The Onion, who
already did a story on the SCA taking over Russia.

Barcsi Janos

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