SC - Acolytes

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On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Mark Schuldenfrei wrote:

>   and those of you who are "sombodies" with fancy hats or other regalia often
>   seem unapproachable to those of us who have nothing more than an aoa, if that.
> 
> I know, off the cooks topic.
> 
> Nice lady...  I was who I was all along.  Five minutes before the Crown
> surprised me with this dangle-thing, I was just the same as 5 minutes after.
> 
> I've said this before I got the big-dingle, and I still believe it is true:
> by and large, a Peerage or other high award is not just a sign of longevity:
> but a sign of acceptability.  It is a very good marker to say "this person
> you are about to talk to plays the game well, loves it, and is good enough
> to be worth knowing."
> 
> It's the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.  It's the Underwriters
> Laboratories safety rating.  It's two thumbs up from Siskel and Ebert.
> 
> It also means that, whether we like it or not, we have an especial
> obligation to continue to put back into the game what we have gotten out of
> it through the years.
> 
> By way of saying: if I were to attend an event somewhere, and know no one,
> I'd race up to people with Peerages and Pearls, and say hi.  Because it
> improves the odds of finding someone that loves the game.
> 
> Peer fear means that you are eliminating from your social sphere the very
> group of folks you most should meet.  One of the major reasons I don't wear
> the pearls too often is because they act as "new folks bane".
> 
> 	Tibor, Baron of the Court (I admit to it only rarely)
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     Personally, M'Lord (your excellency)
I'm not even sure if such ranks are the best indication of "longevity" as
you put it. There are those of us out there who have been with the SCA for
oh, 10 years or so without so much as an AoA, and believe me, it's not due
to lack of work! 
 
    Aine
            )()(
 
( Forgive me if i have unintentionally offended anyone, it was not my
reason for pointing this out)

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