[Ansteorra] cloved fruit

[Stefan li Rous]

By "here" I was speaking of the central Texas area. Other than a few  
trips to Steppes or Stargate, I'm afraid I didn't, and still don't :- 
( get too far away from my home area.

This game may have gotten resurrected for this event, since it was in  
rememberance of the SCA 30 years ago. Having stayed up way too late on  
Friday night finishing up the Nobles Luncheon, we left right after  
Court. Too bad. I would have enjoyed playing the game again, being so  
much more handsome than I was then... :-)

Stefan

On Oct 25, 2009, at 4:23 AM, love at roseandchad.net wrote:

> Here as in a specific area of Ansteorra or in Ansteorra altogether?
>
> There were several cloven fruits making the rounds here at the event  
> this evening, and at least two of them were completely uncloven by,  
> well, ten minutes ago. *grin*
>
> I've seen them at events more often than not, although it doesn't  
> seem to be the novelty that it used to be.
>
> Greetings from an awesome Samhain.
>
>
> -Rose the Obnoxious
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> Subject: [Ansteorra] cloved fruit
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>
> On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:52 AM, paul rieke wrote:
>> I just received an "American Girls" catalog, and the latest one is a
>> 70's doll, complete with crinkle gauze top and bell bottoms....
>> frightening thought...
>> I  seem to remember some of those things, though we didn't get here
>> from the East Kingdom until 1981.  Cloved lemons (and watermelons???)
>>
>> Fedelm ni Uidhir
>
> I think cloved fruit died out here a few years after I joined the SCA
> in 1988. I remember a number of revels where the game was suddenly,
> rudely ended, when a participant would treat the cloved fruit as a
> grenade and heave it into the distance.
>
> For those who might be wondering what all this stuff about cloved
> fruit is about, here is some explanation about it, and an apology from
> half of the team that dreamed this game up.
>
> cloved-fruit-msg  (13K)  9/29/99    Period cloved fruit. Origin of the
> SCA game.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/ENTERTAINMENT/cloved-fruit-msg.html
>
> Stefan


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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
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