[ANSTHRLD] Ansteorran Gazette May 2011

[Crandall]

I think she should step up and then fire herself. 

Crandall, Olde Phart 

"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong." -John Kenneth Galbraith


--- On Tue, 5/3/11, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:

> From: Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Ansteorran Gazette May 2011
> To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 10:34 AM
> On Mon, 2 May 2011, Obelisk Herald
> <obelisk at herald.ansteorra.org>
> wrote:
> > so confess to looking forward to my impending Sable
> Roundel-ness for
> > the approximately 20 seconds free I will have before
> being swallowed
> > by the next job.
> 
> Aw, Star, step up as Wreath one minute before stepping down
> as Star.
> Plurality of office is period and ever so stylish!  (I
> love things
> like "King of England, Duke of Normandy, Brittany, and
> Aquitaine,
> Count of Anjou and Maine, Lord of Ireland, Overlord of
> Scotland".)
> If there are vacant regional and local offices, you can
> one-up the
> Pope with title stacking.
> 
> > Ansteorra has enjoyed a spectacular pass/fail rate at
> Laurel the
> > past year or so, including a 100% acceptance rate for
> all our
> > submissions this past quarter.
> 
> To descend into seriousness: I've seen it suggested that a
> prolonged
> 100% pass rate is an indication that a kingdom may be
> rejecting too
> much, not letting thru the borderline cases that could have
> gotten
> thru with a shove and a wish.  But I've not read our
> returns to say.
> 
> > Lastly, but possibly most importantly, I am pleased to
> announce that
> > the Ansteorran Heraldic and Scribal Symposium this
> year will be
> > hosted by the Barony of Bordermarch, held on July 30,
> 2011.
> 
> I blush to say how little I know about Ansteorran geography
> and exact
> locations of groups, so I think it good to mention
> real-world
> locations too.  Bordermarch is around Beaumont, Port
> Arthur, and
> Orange, Texas, which are just south of I-10 and snuggled up
> against
> the Louisiana border, roughly 2 hours east of Houston
> (sayeth Google
> Maps).
> 
> Danyll de Lincoln
> -- Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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