[Sca-cooks] What do you think? OT

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> I've been struggling with my SCA identity for some time now. Avraham
haRofeh
> ("haRofeh" means "the doctor"), no matter what period, wouldn't know a
> damned thing about my interests - cooking, brewing and heraldry. I chose
the
> name because it was identifiably ME, but clearly isn't really suitable for
> who I want to be in period.
>
> Since I look best and feel most comfortable in High Tudor garb (funny
that,
> being a 350lb man who looks rather like Henry VIII), I've decided that's
my
> period. I want an easily documented name, so I don't have to drive my
herald
> (me) nuts with the registration forms, but something that's still more or
> less recognizable as me. I've settled on Randall Cook - so I can still be
> Randy (which is how virtually everyone knows me anyway). What do you all
> think?
>
> Randy

Well, love, I love all 350 lbs of you, in Tudor or any other garb, so
whatever you want is cool by me ;-) Of course, you realize that you're
changing names, just as I've figured out how to pronounce Avraham....

This sort of name change in regards to your personna is why I have taken to
suggesting to new folks that they wait a bit before they pick a name. In my
case, I was determined to use my first name, which was easy since it's
documentable throughout our period and beyond, but I got pushed into
registering a last name, and now I'm having to push it back 1000 years, to
match my persona. And, just to make things interesting, Paul Buell is
helping me develop a late period alternate persona, Mongol, to use on
special occasions. I'm all for it, because it's rather fun, finding out what
the differences are between being exactly the same person, with exactly the
same skills, in two similar, but very different cultures requires, but it
can be a bit confusing to all involved ;-)

So Randy, or Avraham, or Late-for-supper, I'll support your changes, if I
can just remember them ;-)

Phlip

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....