[Loch-ruadh] Fwd: Are you an Authenticity Nazi?

[Paul or Galen]

Thanks for that last one, Padraig!

I'm not an authenticity Nazi after all.

- Galen
Lion of Ansteorra

On Tuesday, January 22, 2002, at 05:30 PM, Padraig O'Maolagain wrote:

> Saw this on the SCA Heralds list and thought everyone would get a
> chuckle out of it.  Try not to be as offended by the term "Authenticity
> Nazi" as some of the people on the Heralds list were.  :)
>
> Padraig
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From:         David Blanchard <blahuciak at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To:     Discussions of SCA Heraldry <SCAHRLDS at LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
> Date:          Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:32:15 -0500
>
> This was reposted on the ealdormere elist. Thought people may
> appreciate it,
> esp.items 5-7.
>
> Volodymyr
>
> Are You An Authenticity Nazi?
>
> 1) If you put on your "good" elf ears for court, you may not be an
> authenticity nazi.
>
> 2) If your garb has more than three zippers, you may not be an
> authenticity nazi.
>
> 3) If your nail polish matches your cotthardie, you may not be an
> authenticity nazi.
>
> 4) If you purchased any portion of your middle eastern garb at La Senza
> or Victoria's Secret, you may not be an authenticity nazi.
>
> 5) If your personna name contains any three of the following: Black,
> Moon, Dark, Blood, Axe, Wolf, Lone, Dragon, Bane, Cat or Wanderer, you
> may not be an authenticity nazi.
>
> 6) If you cite Michael Moorcock novels or Conan films as primary
> documentation, you may not be an authenticity nazi.
>
> 7) If you have taken your heraldry from a beer label or the hood
> ornament of a car, you may not be an authenticity nazi.
>
> 8) If you watch Hercules and Xena, Warrior Princess for armor ideas,
> you may not be an authenticity nazi.
>
> 9) If you consider chainmail to be an undergarment, you may not be an
> authenticity nazi.
>
> 10) If your personna was raised by gypsies, captured by pirates,
> trained as a ninja, forced into a harem and made the first female
> samurai in Yorkshire, you may not be an authenticity nazi.
>
> *****
>
> 11) (added by Padraig) If you are not offended by the term
> "authenticity nazi", you may not be an authenticity nazi.
>
>
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