[Sca-cooks] Re: Mel Gibson and indigo.

[Stefan li Rous]

Kiri said:
> Reminds me of a fellow, King of another medieval group, the Markland Military
> Militia, who decided that it would be great fun to come to Pennsic all done
> up in woad.  He paraded around in it all during war (war was much shorter
> then) and even had himself carried in (dressed in nothing more confining than
> his woad) for Great Court.  When he got home, he tried to get the stuff
> off...but it wouldn't come off!  He wound up having to go to work that way,
> and this was before they invented even the idea of casual Fridays!!!

I also remember stories of folks doing this, and getting the woad off
in time for work. However what they didn't count on was the tan they
had developed - everywhere except for where the woad patterns were!

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