[Sca-cooks] Period Tomatoes

[Huette von Ahrens]

I have never heard of a Kinjal of Moravia.  There is no one registered by that name in the latest
online O and A.  The person in question said that they entered a contest in the Principality of
Cynagua, which is part of the West Kingdom, not Caid.  Whether or not this person actually won
a contest doesn't mean that the judges of said contest knew what they were judging.  I have
seen contests judged by reigning monarchs because the autocrats wanted to kiss up to said
monarchs, but that didn't mean that said monarchs were authorities.  

I once attended a house party at Selene's where one of her guests was elated that she had
won a dance contest where she had done a flamenco dance, claiming that it was period.  I looked
at her "documentation", most of which was off of internet websites.  I asked her about
how she had come to her conclusions.  She said she found a site that stated that the Canario
was an ancestor of the flamenco, so therefore flamenco dancing was period.  I then asked her
if she knew how to do a Canario, and she said she had never seen it done.  I wish that I could
find the judges of said contest, so that I could slap them upside their pointy little heads and
ask them, "What on earth were you thinking?"  That same person submitted some embroidery at that
same event, which also apparently won its devision.  Sometime later, that person was overheard
saying that that embroidery had been purchased and that got back to one of the judges who then
went out of her way to contact the autocrat of the event to have that win invalidated.  

I have also heard people who have judged contests state, "Sometimes you just have to accept the
entrant's documentation as being valid."  Sheesh!  I once judged a dance contest where the
documentation listed a lot of very reliable sources.  However, the dance presented wasn't in
any of them.  How did I know this?  Because I had read them all.  Where did the contestant
actually find her dance, which she said that she had researched thoroughly?  From Zefferelli's
movie, Romeo and Juliet.  The contestant had the misfortune of being judged by two judges out
of three who knew their subject and didn't allow such bunk to get passed them.

I have a feeling that this Kinjal, if he actually won a contest, lucked out in getting judges
who were clueless.  Which means that said Kinjal will never believe anyone else who claims
his research wasn't valid.  Sort of "Don't confuse me with facts.  I know what I know!"

Huette
Angels, Caid

--- Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
> 
> Guys, I've discussed this privately with Mordonna, and the more I hear of
> this person, the more he sounds like a particular idiot I had problems with
> on another List, particularly the quoting of unnamed professors, and
> misquoting obscure Turkish tracts having nothing whatsoever to do with the
> topic at hand. The person I'm thinking of was from Trimaris, however, and
> this person gives his history as from being from Caid. Any chance our
> Caidans might care to discuss whether there is such a person, and what sort
> of backgroiund they may have had, if any, in that fair Kingdom? Selene?
> Huette? I'll send you what information I have, but I don't want to post it
> publicly- this person is getting far too much credence as it stands.
> 
> Saint Phlip,
> CoD
> 
> "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
>  Blacksmith's credo.
> 
>  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> cat.
> 
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
> 
> 
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