[Sca-cooks] Word usage was Re: remove vs course

[Jeff Gedney]

>heh heh...I remember 'The Bizarre Bazaar' from somewhere years ago (maybe Dragon magazine)...now it's all other the 'net referring to everything from fetishes to anime to charity auctions.

Twenty ago this month, Dragonship Haven in the East Kingdom 
(New Haven, Connecticut area) held an event called 
"Bizarre Bazaar", which was dedicated to the "arte of shopping". 
It was a lot of fun. 
I am not certain if that is the origin of the phrase, but it was 
the first use of it that I recall.

I made a nice cake for it.

A fully Rigged Dragonship (Sails were fruit leather) with "Vikings"
sacking a villiage with a round house. 

The ship was constructed to the lines of the Oseberg wreck, and 
Rigged according to reconstructions of that ship. (documetation 
was available, but nobody cared much then.) The "vikings" were
cookies cut out to silluettes taken from various Friezes in 
Gotland (also documented). 
The livestock were simply animal shaped cookie cutters.    
the ship, masts, roundhouse, fences, people, and beach rocks were 
made of (non-period) ginbgerbread, the shore, hills and ocean were 
chocolate cake and various icings. The flames on the roundhhouse 
were provided by a votive candle and orange piped icing. 

I had a picture, but it was lost to flooding.

vivd memory:
Inside the roundhouse were chocolate coins which the King proceded 
to distribute as "largesse"...

with ballistic force...


until someone made him stop. 

( There was at least one bloody nose, If I am not mistaken. 
Apparently he was trying to get largesse to the back of the hall, 
but as the ceiling was not high, he figured he just had to throw 
harder for a flatter trajectory. He could throw very hard.) 

Capt Elias
Dragonship Haven, East
(Stratford, CT, USA)
Apprentice in the House of Silverwing

-Renaissance Geek of the Cyber Seas

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