[Sca-cooks] Betan earring coding

[Susan Fox-Davis]

<BLINK>  Is this my SCA-Cook list or my Bujold list??!  Look what I get for
being sick for a long weekend.  Sheesh.

Come on, it's not so difficult.  In the SCA we already have a complex jewelry
code, it's called awards regalia.  Elena merely punched someone in the nose for
making an unwanted pass;  have we not heard of worse for someone failing to
respect the strawberry leaves?  OK, Elena wasn't right and nor was Duke Whatsis,
but it happens.  With sticks.

Selene Colfox, off to see if the Lois McMaster Bujold list is parallelling this
discussion...

Siegfried Heydrich wrote:

>     Gawd. And I thought hanky codes were esoteric . . . Y'know, I have this
> idea for parties where as you enter, you stop by a laptop with a label
> printer attached and enter your status / preferences, which then prints in
> large, florescent, 18 point type a label for you to wear. Sounds a whole
> hell of a lot simpler, and doesn't require a translation pamphlet or
> memorization of exotic codes..Like how would one interpret a nose ring with
> a bead . . .? Into nasal sex? (lends a whole new meaning to blowing your
> brains out)
>
>     Sieggy, contemplating the sound of one hand typing . . .
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> >Well - not as baroque as it could be.
> >
> >keep in mind there are 2 ears so you can make more complex arrangements but
> >basically -
> >
> >so you have:[herms are by default bi]
> >for s&g, single gets gold earrings, married gets platinum earrings.
> > looking for get hoops, not looking for get french wires. Not
> >looking for people could decide to not advertise their orientation so might
> >be made of very ornately cast and carven earrings, or things like feathers,
> >shells, real gems and the like.
> > hetero get red beads
> > homo get orange beads
> > kink get beads - yellow s&m, green b&d, group get
> >blue,looking for bi male indigo and looking for bi female violet, looking
> >for herm swirled indigo/violet, homo male might be swirled white and
> indigo,
> >female homo might be swirled white/violet
> > [the looking for homo implies frex I might want to
> >watch my spouse get it on with a person of the same sex rather than looking
> >for a menage a trois. A herm means pretty much negotiate for bi or straight
> >action]
> >
> >so, if i were married, hetero looking for group action I would wear
> platinum
> >hoops with a red bead and a blue bead. Or a mille fiore type bead of red
> and
> >blue swirled together. You could refine that further by looking to get into
> >a pick p group left ear, looking for somebody to add to my group right ear.
> >
> >margali
> >
> >[you don't look for real specifics like financial support or licensing for
> >children. That can be discussed over coffee.]