SR - Reqs, Duties, & Powers (long)
Elisabeth Zakes
ezakes at planview.com
Fri Jun 5 04:19:58 PDT 1998
> d.: What does "impartial" mean? To paraphrase Churchill, "I
> refuse to be impartial between the fire brigade and the
> fire". I have preferences rooted in the SCA -- to wit, that
> period practice is A Good Thing and the closer to period
> practice the better. I have my personal preferences -- to
> wit, that Scandinavian and Celtic names are overdone in the
> SCA; can I find sir something nice in Italian, and we have a
> special on German today? (To judge by the SCA, Dublin was
> bigger than modern New York, and The City on the Bosporus
> was a cow town (pun intended).) I want to cheerlead.
>
I think that "impartial" was meant to refer to the support or
non-support of forming a principality. Someone impartial in this context
would be someone who could put his preferences aside and work toward
making a *good* principality.
> I do NOT advocate misfeasance or malfeasance -- "oopsie, I
> misplaced that suggestion!" "Now that I see the votes, I
> want the cutoff to be between #3 and #4 -- so the Mystycke
> Unycorne Keep gets dropped." If elected, I ... ahem. For
> example, I would list suggested names in alphabetical order,
> I think. (Could I list arms in order of increasing
> complexity?)
>
> Daniel de Lincolia
>
Names in alpha order, arms either in increasing complexity or
alpha by color of the field... I like this.
Aethelyan
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