[Elfsea] Business Meeting Notes
Jay Rudin
rudin at ev1.net
Mon May 25 19:23:04 PDT 2009
Caelin> For those of you who missed the meeting. Hanna took the notes on a
paper plate. A sight to see.
Alaric> Not bad, but I still think Steppes beats that when they got (I
forget which) either an award recommendation or an event bid - written on a
banana.
Caelin> Pyro says it was the award charter on the banana. She was there.
The recipient had said she would be glad to get her award written on a
banana peel if she could just get an award.
It was Twelfth Night 1991, and she was a scribe.
At the November 1990 C&I meeting, which was held about a week after Rowan
won Crown Tournament, Margaret Pearce, a very new, enthusiastic, and
hardworking scribe, was helping paint charters. A discussion broke out
among those present about the variety of quality among painted charters.
The young woman said, "I don't understand that. If I ever receive an
award, especially if it's from Rowan, I'd be so excited that I wouldn't
care if it were on a banana."
Be careful what you say in front of other scribes.
The Steppes C&I guild recommended her to the baron (me) and baroness, who
agreed, and recommended her to the Crown. In fact, the king and queen
turned down that award recommendation. At Twelfth Night, when Lord Mahdi
presented us with the banana he had calligraphed (complete with painted
initial letter), we took it to the Crown to show them how ...
enthusiastically the C&I community supported the award. Because of the
banana scroll, the Crown reversed themselves and the award was given. (And
yes, Princess Rowan was part of the presentation of the AoA.)
Margaret is, by the way, allergic to bananas -- that was the whole point of
her comment about being so excited that she wouldn't care if it were on a
banana -- and served the banana (carefully preserving the peel) to the head
table.
Robin of Gilwell / Jay Rudin, who has actually eaten the Crown's words, as
supplemented by Serena Lascelles of the C&I guild
P.S. Steppes has also received more than one event bid on a napkin. And
Margaret Pearce worked a banana into the illumination on Mahdi's knighthood
scroll.
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