[Sca-cooks] period spectacles

[Martin G. Diehl]

"Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
>
> At 05:22 PM 11/18/02 +1100, you wrote:
> >Now you have gone and pushed a button.... period
> >spectacles is one of my "things".
>
> Oy vey...
>
> >There is almost no sight I despise more than the sight
> >of someone wandering the tourney field wearing
> >flourescent pink wraparounds.  If someone speaks to
> >them, most say that they are wearing them for medical
> >reasons.
>
> Yeha, riiight. Medical sunglasses generally don't look
> like that. At least not the ones I've seen for
> post-cataract patients, etc. I think they just want to
> look 'cool', and don't care that we think it's stupid.

[snip]

> However, I don't really _see_ glasses.

[snip]

> Now, lack of proper headwear (hat, veil, headdress),
> _that_ I notice. Nothing looks sillier that a full
> Elizabethan with a mound of teased/sprayed mall hair,
> the bangs doing the spiky thing in front.  *shudder*
> And I'm tired of the "I just hate wearing something on
> my head" stuff. If the only time you do it is for your
> wedding, yeah, it's pretty uncomfortable. But if you
> practice wearing the headdress, and if it's made right,
> it shouldn't be a problem. And...
>
> Oops. The soapbox just made a cracking noise- probably
> under the weight of my rhetoric...

On mundane lists when I find that has happened, I express
regret that I replaced the batteries in  my automatic
soapbox ... here, I would have to say that soapboxes
shouldn't be made with built-in perpetual motion
machines.  <g>

> crawling back to my bed...
>
> 'Lainie

Vincenzo

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Martin G. Diehl