I was about to make this same point but Robin got there first. To my mind a NSTIW story is making no attempt at a period feel or delivery. Just because it's about Ansteorran history does not make it a NSTIW story.
<br><br>Robert<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2008 8:55 AM, Jay Rudin <<a href="mailto:rudin@ev1.net">rudin@ev1.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Donnchadh wrote:<br><br><br>>I fear that I did not clearly convey my meaning in my original post.<br>> When I spoke of "There I was" stories, I was thinking of the relay of<br>> personal experiences seen and heard at SCA events. Not that I
<br>> necessarily prefer them in their most crude and unfinished form.<br><br></div>Oh. Then we ran straight into a semantic issue, rather than a bardic one.<br><br>I have always heard the term a "no-euphemism-there-I-was story" to mean a
<br>story told, usually with that exact opening line, specifcally to indicate<br>that the teller has no interest in period forms or styles, and is just<br>telling us a cool story about a modern rattan sport. In the mid-80s in
<br>Calontir, the opening line was a *requirement*.<br><br></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day." John A. Wheeler
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