SC - Iron Chef advice

[Elaine Koogler]

In a message dated 8/2/2000 1:06:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jenne at tulgey.browser.net writes:
Balthazar said:
<< > Toys for Tots??  Rediculous to the extreme??  Come on, Ras... we are a 
 > service oriented society, are we not?  Besides, don't you drive your very 
 > modern car to events??  :)
 Jadwiga responded:
 Apparently, Ras only approves of doing benefits for medieval
 organizations. Must make it hard to do demos in his area. ;) >>

Come on, guys.  It's not that he doesn't believe in benefitting the rest of 
the world, or only benefitting other medieval groups.  He's talking about 
keeping a medieval atmosphere at events.  Iron Chef and Toys for Tots didn't 
exist in our time period; heck, the concept of them didn't exist.  If you are 
in this organization to try to recreate medieval life, it's really hard to do 
so when there are banners for Toys for Tots everywhere, or when the main 
event is a recreation of a television show!  You can do the same kinds of 
things without making a big noise about the modern stuff - for instance, how 
is one of our siege challenges different from Iron Chef?  Sure, have people 
bring a toy to donate to enter the tourney - but don't make a big noise about 
it during the event, or simply announce that alms for the poor should be 
given to the almoner at this location.  People will know what you are talking 
about, but it's not as blatantly modernly intrusive.

For the record - I agree with Ras.

Brangwayna Morgan