SC - After feast
Aelfwyn at aol.com
Aelfwyn at aol.com
Sun Apr 11 14:11:33 PDT 1999
In a message dated 4/11/99 3:11:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ddfr at best.com
writes:
<< 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/ >>
Alas, at our last feast we had very little help in the kitchen to clean up or
to serve. I have a faithful crew for preparing the feast, and they always can
be counted on to stay with me until the place is spotless afterward. Our
servers were 90% under age 10, and they did a remarkable job. Our local
Knight and Pelican did serve, however made it clear they were only serving
the royal table, would not wear the Provincial tabards the other servers wore
and made "demands" in how they wanted things to come from the kitchen to them
that nearly caused a small war. Freya had a fit when she found all of us
still in the kitchen doing the cleanup and made me promise not to do again
next time. But I can guarantee our local Pelican will not be caught washing
dishes, unless maybe Cariadoc's quote is reality and the schmooze factor is
raised high enough. Many of the people that had signed up ahead of time to
serve and clean up decided not to attend the event at the last minute for
other reasons. Yup, we have local political problems. Any advice on how to
avoid the 50+ member Province always having the same 10 people doing the
grunt work?
Discouraged,
Aelfwyn
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