[Northkeep] "Put out that bloody cigare..." *

Cheryl Kiel azuredecodragon at yahoo.com
Fri May 8 16:48:32 PDT 2009


hehehehhehe
GO ARTHUR!!

hell if we've gotta be that frickin PC now lets at least be allowed to have some fun with it.
I'd be willing to come out of hiding & help make the buttons.

 Tamberlin






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From: ld.blackmoon <ld.blackmoon at cox.net>
To: The Barony of Northkeep <northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, May 8, 2009 6:44:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Northkeep] "Put out that bloody cigare..." *

greetings

sorry , can't resist , ; )

if they have a " service " auction, does the winning bidder get a button that says       " i was serviced by __________ "     ????
; )
Be Safe , Be Happy, Have Fun
Arthur
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Schorn" <peterschorn at pdq.net>
To: <northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 6:33 PM
Subject: [Northkeep] "Put out that bloody cigare..." *


> Well, why not call them "service auctions" instead?  Because that's what
> you're really auctioning, isn't it?
> 
>> The auctions I've seen over the years were always called "slave" auctions.
>> Everyone understood they were done for fun, and usually the auctioneer
>> outlined what the slaves could be used for.  They were raucous, a little
>> raunchy, definitely rowdy, and always a riot (in the good sense).
> 
> I don't doubt this was the case.  However, just because you haven't had
> trouble in the past doesn't mean other people haven't--or that we shouldn't
> learn from their example.
> 
> Because I can offer counter-examples of civic and campus groups that held
> "slave auctions" and got slammed for it in the media.  Yes, I know it's bad
> for the media to exercise its power in this way.  But it does, and I don't
> see why we should make the SCA in general or Northkeep in particular a
> target for it.
> 
> I referred to the BoD because they have the power of sanction against both
> individuals _and groups_ that they feel are putting the SCA in
> danger--including the danger of bad publicity.  So even if we escape
> notoriety in the press, the BoD could well be inclined to take pre-emptive
> action to preclude future risk.  And if we do attract notoriety--do you
> think the BoD will defend our right to hold slave-auctions?
> 
> (Bear in mind that we are governed by a corporation seated in Marin County,
> California.  Look that up on Google Earth.  Notice where it is.  And ask
> yourself how charitably people there might view a bunch of Midwesterners
> playing at slave-games).
> 
> I don't doubt the goodness of anybody's motives or the innocence of
> anybody's intentions.  I know they are all of the best. But I think you've
> got a blind spot here and in that blind spot lies some risk--avoidable,
> unnecessary and considerable risk-- to the SCA from the media, and to
> Northkeep from the BoD.  I am trying to warn you of that risk.
> 
> It's like...we're all in a trench during wartime, at night, and you want to
> smoke a cigarette.  Now, though I don't smoke myself, I don't have any
> objections to you smoking--*but*not*here,*not*now.* Because if you do, you
> could attract a sniper or a shell. And that would be very, very bad for all
> of us, not just you.
> 
> Please consider what I have said.  Please consider at least changing the
> name to "service auction"--I've never heard of one of those getting ripped
> by the media.
> 
> Please don't take a risk that endangers those who didn't consent to take it.
> 
> --Cadfan
> 
> *Last words of Hector Hugo Munro (1870-1916), better known as the author
> "Saki."  Killed by a German sniper in the trenches of World War I.
> Interestingly, he had written the following poem:
> 
> "It's three no trumps" the soldier said.
> A sniper's bullet struck him dead.
> His cards bedecked the trench's bottom:
> A comrade peered--"Yep, he'd a' got 'em."
> 
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