[Sca-cooks] Re: [Bright Hills] things they dont explain about Pennsic

[Matthew G. Saroff]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 JulianaCardoso at comcast.net wrote:

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> What great advise.  The one thing I did that really helped with the mud
> stains (add to #5) was to spray Scotch guard on the bottoms of my
> chemises.  I somehow managed to miss 1, and it is the only one that
> ended up with a permanent stain.

	Let us not forget the Pennsic Play at Home Game
(http://tinyurl.com/ytkur):

> From: rosalyn rice (rorice at nickel.ucs.indiana.edu)
> Subject: The Pennsic Play-at-home Game!
> Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
> Date: 1995/08/21
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> I just got back from Pennsic last night having spent several hours
> making sure that a friend's car got fixed before we left PA.  Anyhow,
> here are my suggestions for those people who couldn't make it to Pennsic
> this year to recreate that Pennsic ambience:
>
> 1) Turn off your air conditioning and turn on your heat, even if it's 90
> outside.
>
> 2) Turn off your electricity.
>
> 3) Walk everyplace. Make sure that you have rocks and dust in your shoes
> before you leave.
>
> 4) Put on a tape of Middle Eastern drumming. Crank up the volume and put
> the tape on a repeating loop. Leave it like that all night.
>
> 5) Go to a bait shop and buy a quart of live crickets. Release them in
> your house.
>
> 6) Turn off your hot water heater. Stand around for half an hour before
> you take a shower. (Alternately, limit yourself to two gallons of luke
> warm water for that shower bag experience.)
>
> 7) Age all your water for three days by leaving it to sit in plastic
> soda bottles in the sun. Drink this water through a piece of hospital
> tubing while sharing it with 20 sweaty guys you've never met before. As
> a variation mix in a few nails and a bit of gatorade mix for that
> authentic Cooper's Lake flavor.
>
> 8) Make up an alcoholic beverage using at least one part everclear, one
> part tabasco, and several parts whatever's in the back of the
> fridge/liquor cabinet. Give the resulting potion a really butch sounding
> name like "Pink Flaming Death" and drink several of them while sitting
> in the dark right next to your Middle Eastern music tape. This will
> simulate the Pennsic party experience.
>
> 9) Turn your TV to C-Span. Turn the sound down so that you can barely
> hear it. Now watch it while standing up. Do this for several hours.
> This will simulate Pennsic court.
>
> 10) Turn off the lights in your bathroom. Soak down the floor with mud
> and sugar (for that gross sticky effect). Don't flush the toilet for a
> week. This will remind you of the Pennsic porta-castles.
>
> After you've done this for a few days you won't feel so bad about
> missing Pennsic, and you might decide that you never want to go at all.
>
> Lothar (that hotel room is looking better and better each year).
--
--Sfi Mordehai ben Yosef Yitzhak, Aka Matthew G. Saroff

This is not the Dream.  This is what I do on weekends to have
some fun.

The Dream involves 4 sets of identical twins, 2 gallons of Cool
Whip, 5 quarts of chocolate syrup, 2-1/4 pounds of strawberries,
satin sheets, a magnum of champagne, a trapeze, and a python.
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