[Sca-cooks] Betan earring explanation

[Carol Eskesen Smith]

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For those who don't read sci-fi, Betan earrings are from Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series, and refer to an informal code set up by the Betans (who are, to say the least, liberated), in which particular earrings have specific meaning:

Looking/opposite sex
looking/same sex
Involved with someone
(etc).

Useful, I suspect, if I read the books aright...  I recommend them for your light reading pleasure, if you like sci-fi.

Regards,
Brekke

----- Original Message -----
From: Olwen the Odd
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:55 PM
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Betan earrings, was Apologies to all Laurels,Gays, Dancers, anddecorators

>on 11/8/02 9:28 AM, Kirsten Houseknecht at kirsten at fabricdragon.com wrote:
>
> > i am afraid i am one of the clueless.......
>
>     Not the only one.    It's been a running joke that I tend to
>completely
>overlook when someone is interested in me until they actually *tell* me of
>that interest.     My default is to assume they're just being friendly.
>
>     There are times I really, really wish someone would codify a
>Betan-style
>earring code......
>
>     - Padraig o Connell

...I'm so clueless I don't even know what the heck Betan earrings are, and
if I ever *did* figure that out, it probably wouldn't help anyway.  I'm of
the distict opinion that the only betan that will get me a man is the beatin
I'd have to do on his head before I dragged him back home!
Olwen

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