[Sca-cooks] rantAuthenticitypolice - Private HUZZAH!

[Sue Clemenger]

I think I saw something like that, many years ago at 25thYear in 
Ansteorra.  It was very, very funny.
I'd love to see it again sometime, now that I'm an old, used peer, and 
not a wide-eyed newbie.  I'd probably understand some of the in-jokes 
even more now.
--maire

Elaine Koogler wrote:

> Sue Clemenger wrote:
> 
>> Absolutely, you get points for it!
>> And I figured the badges to be a joke. Kinda like the "button" I've 
>> got that says "All this, and documentation, too" that I wore on the 
>> inside of my Elizabethan overskirt, the year I won Aten Kingdom A&S.
>> I've got an insanely weird sense of humor, on top of my authenticity 
>> leanings, so the badges struck my funny bone....Something that would 
>> be good to have around for those times when I take myself too seriously.
>> --maire
>>
> Then you would have loved the play that was presented at Pennsic many 
> years back...I think the playwright was one Goldwyn of Britain from the 
> Eastrealm..."Mistress Laurel Seamchecker explains it all at You".  It 
> was a scream...had a cast of characters created from caricatures of 
> types we all know and love in the SCA.  And, of course, Mistress Laurel 
> Seamchecker was your basic Authenticity Police type!
> Kiri