[Elfsea] Business Meeting Notes

[John McNama]

This is part of why I love the SCA. I love this stuff. :)

Tjörvi
Lover of good tales...

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Jay Rudin <rudin at ev1.net> wrote:

> 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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