SC - wedding feasts numbers

[Helen]

At 10:41 AM -0500 4/11/99, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:


>My Viceroy (who functions more or less as a Baron, so I won't have to go
>into what a Viceroy actually is in the SCA) is also a Master of the
>Pelican, and has some proteges, who are essentially retainers and
>Pelicans-in-training. He has contrived a swearing-in ceremony something
>like the one used in the East when a knight takes a squire: in this case
>he has another protege stand next to him, carrying a bowl of warm sudsy
>water and a towel. He asks the candidate if they are willing to be his
>protege, explains what that will mean, and then seals the contract by
>placing the new protege's hands in the bowl of suds, saying, "Let this
>be the first of _many_ tubs of dishwater you will put your hands into,
>in my service." This is always good for a laugh, but no one misses the
>serious side of what, for the people involved, has very serious meaning.

My version of that, from the Miscellany:

"What do you call the last man out of the kitchen at an event?"
"Your Majesty"
Old joke.
Unfortunately.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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