[Ansteorra] What's happening here?

[Rod Jackson]

and they have paid advertizing?
   
  Colin

Paul DeLisle <ferret at hot.rr.com> wrote:
  Ooh! Oooh!
What *she* said!
(Well spoken, Milady!)

Alden



> > I was recently asked why Ren Faires are getting more publicity and
> > activity than the SCA....

> Okay I'll bite on this one. Because Ren Faire requires *NO* amount of
> responsibility from the patrons other than a one-time large
> outlay of cash.
>
> Example: my sister and her girlfriends are going to Opening
> Weekend at the
> end of the month. They are going to dress in freaky sexy fantasy
> costumes,
> run around drinking lots of beer that they will buy, eating Renfaire food
> that they will buy, watching the paid professional entertainers,
> using the
> privies that are cleaned by paid attendants, on property that is
> cared for
> by paid groundskeepers. As long as she doesn't run out of money
> she'll have
> a great weekend and not have to exert any more effort on her part than
> occasionally stopping by the ATM or lugging her purchases back to
> the car.
> And if she doesn't have a good time - it wasn't _her_ fault - it was the
> lousy entertainment, or the pushy crowds, or the long line at the
> privy, or
> some other such thing.
>
> At SCA events *we* are the cooks, bartenders, entertainers, privy
> cleaners,
> groundskeepers, etc. All unpaid of course. We are entirely
> responsible for
> the running of our events and whether or not we have fun.
> Personally I like
> our way better but some folks don't - so they go to RenFaire instead.
>
> regards,
> Simone Valery la Rousse
> Stargate


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