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I love these tales so I've collected as many as I could find and have placed them here. My name is listed on many because I culled them from lists that had no attributions. (Where possible, I gave the credit that appeared, as from the list from "The Steps of the Cathedral", An Tir's mailing. This may only be the submitter, not the origin of the story.) Is this your story and you want credit? Simply edit it to reflect your own name. I have no ownership of any of them. - Alaxandr
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-- alaxandr, 2007-02-21 Edit. or Delete.
2: You prefer old versions of movies because there is more chance of original bits of kit turning up among the props.
-- Alaxandr, 2006-12-09 Edit. or Delete.
3: You are walking into the local convenience store in full garb, (yes, all my toys :), purchase a few things, and on your way out you see 2 police cars whip into the parking lot, and seconds later you open the door and hold it for the officers as they rush in to nab the shoplifter...only to have the female officer dip a fast curtsey and a *thank you My lord* on her way in the door.
-- Sylverstone the Traveller, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2006-12-09 Edit. or Delete.
4: When your 12 year old daughter announces she wants to go goth -- and then she amends: *Visigoth or Ostrogoth.*
-- Alaxandr, 2004-07-02 Edit. or Delete.
5: The News mentions 'Queen Elizabeth' and you have a half-heartbeat pause to remember that it's Elizabeth the Second.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
6: You no longer own a winter coat, having discovered the cloaks are *far* warmer and so wear yours all winter :)
-- Cateline de la Mer, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
7: You can wear four (+) layers of clothing, a cloak and a belt... and not get an article of them wet while using the restroom.
-- Cylis, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
8: You find yourself calling your clothing *mundane garb*! (I caught someone doing this! He looked so sheepish when I pointed it out!)
-- Lilith Runesdatter, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
9: Someone is showing you his mundane knife and asking if it's period, and you find yourself reaching for *your* knife to show him what a better handle would look like....and realize that it's not there because you're wearing *mundane garb* ;)
-- May de BAO, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
10: You're introducing an SCA friend to a mundane friend and have to ask your SCA friend what their mundane name is!
-- Saewynn, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
11: When even outside of the SCA you refer to people as M'lord and M'lady
-- Cylis, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
12: You press you friend's cheek to your bosom and then remember you're in Safeway
-- Emma, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
13: You are walking through K-Mart in your full Elizabethans, to pick up some last minute camping stuff and one of the employees jumps up, bows to you as you pass and says *Greetings, Excellency...*
-- Laurellen, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
14: Someone threatens to hit you with a stick and you get an odd smile on your face, and tell them your friends do all the time
-- Fiacha the Blue, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
15: You can put up ANY tent ever made...but only in the dark.
-- Taylor Barak, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
16: You have to fight the overwhelming urge to bow to your boss at work
-- Fritz, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
17: You can think of the coolest pranks to play on people and they all involve duct tape.
-- Nadja, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
18: People are no longer impressed by how many clowns can fit in those little cars at the circus. They've seen the way you pack & travel.
-- Nadja, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
19: People ask how your weekend was and you reply: *Not so good. I was assasinated THREE different times!.
-- Nadja, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
20: You respond better to any one of your persona names than you do to your mundane name.
-- Nadja, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
21: If you had a choice between Disney Land and a border war, you'd choose the border war.
-- Nadja, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
22: You're asked what you did over summer holidays, and your story consists of knights in shining armor, wenches, wars, tournaments, and the time that one of the kitchen wenches got into a whipping cream fight with the king.
-- Nadja, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
23: Your boss has ordered a psychiatric evaluation because of said story.
-- Nadja, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
24: Your SCA brother is scottish, and you hand him a pile of name books, he reads the titles, gives you a dirty look and hands back the one titled *Irish First, Family, and Place Names*.
-- Nadja, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
25: You've yelled *Hey! Nice Tights!* At a guy.
-- Nadja, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
26: You brag to people about being beaten by a 300lb. man with a big stick.
-- Nadja, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
27: You brag to people about *watching* someone being beaten by a 300lb. man with a big stick.
-- Susan, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
28: You bring the dented piece and a photo of yourself in armor to your doctor's appointment with you. (It helps not only to explain how it happened, but also gets you the referral to sports med/physical therapy faster!)
-- Sarnat, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
29: You buy your children's clothes in your heraldic colors.
-- Halima al-Rakkasa, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
30: You buy your vehicle predicated on the size of your pavilion and all its accessories.
-- Halima al-Rakkasa, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
31: You huzzah at hockey games.
-- Halima al-Rakkasa, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
32: Your hardware store knows you as a frequent, and female, customer, but is still entirely unsure as to what you're doing with the stuff, and is afraid to ask.
-- Halima al-Rakkasa, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
33: All the potluck dishes in your recipe file are period.
-- Halima al-Rakkasa, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
34: The back of your car has at all times a basket with feast gear and candle lanterns.
-- Halima al-Rakkasa, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
35: Your 10-year-old doesn't realize that mundane camping exists.
-- Halima al-Rakkasa, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
36: You can't possibly go camping unless you have a full bed, some chairs, a trestle table and two or three oriental carpets to furnish your pavilion.
-- Halima al-Rakkasa, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
37: You preface all your email with -Unto the most gracious...-
-- Halima al-Rakkasa, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
38: Your wearing a mundane suit to a funeral and your 80-year-old mother suggests you wear a knife with an inlaid handle instead of the plain one you are wearing.
-- Jim, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
39: Your boss answers the phone, someone asks for you by your SCA name, and your boss knows who it is.
-- John, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
40: Your car gets stolen and your armor is in it... and when you put out information to your Baronial list... you describe the armor, not the car.
-- Fritz, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
41: The ringer on your cell phone is the *entire* song of *Scotland the Brave*!
-- Arianna, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
42: When you walk by the cutlery shop and see someone laying a sword blade in the palm of their hand.........and you almost holler NO at them
-- Nicholas Keene, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
43: Your children don't know left and right...it is sword arm and shield arm.
-- Ian, Steps Of the Cathedral - AnTir, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
44: ... you know the measurements of all of your friends; it makes it easier to make holiday presents. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
45: ... you had to make a second email account for all of the SCA mailing groups you're part of. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
46: ...your mother no longer asks what you're doing every night. It's something with the SCA, and that's all she wants to know. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
47: ... the restaurant where the barony goes after meetings now expects you, and sets up tables in the back so you won't scare the other costumers. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
48: ... said restaurant also now reminds people to sign their checks with their mundane names, after one particularly amusing night. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
49: ... and said restaurant has also finally stopped asking us if we're in a play. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
50: ...you've given up unpacking your armour from your car. Between practices and events, it's just not worth it. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
51: ... you have to explain to the parents whose children your babysitting why the children are singing in latin ( it was the only thing I could think of to sing them to sleep!) :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
52: ... when your car has gotten mired in slippery slush/ice/mud slop, and you solved this problem by tossing a mail hauberk under a drive wheel for traction. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
53: ...when you begin attending master gardener's classes through the Ag Extension and unintentionally stump the (doctoral) teacher on the first night when you ask about how well they think nigella/Grains of Paradise will do in the area. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
54: ...when you do it again in asking for a local source for withy brakes for making a raised bed. (::sigh:: I'll have to make it myself, looks like - fortunately, there's a willow in town in sore need of trimming and I'll ask the owner if I can 'help.' Another A&S project for the books.) :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
55: ...when you move into a new *apartment,* and your homeowner friends are all jealous of the extra crafts room. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
56: ...when you're looking for real estate, and you comment to your mate on how good your realtor is when she has learned to comment on possible sites for a knot garden or a small keep. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
57: ...when your realtor makes you aware of any communities where there are time limitations on building new constructions because you told her in a car ride how long it can take to properly build the keep. She doesn't even show you the ones with 'no new building' restrictions. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
58: your garb closet is bigger than your mundane closet. and the clothes are in better condition. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
59: your kid can't make the highschool baseball team because he swings a bat like a bastard sword. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
60: you shout 'clear' when you pull a pen from your pocket. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
61: upon learning that a friend has just discovered that she has only one kidney (born that way, apparently), your second thought (after 'that's weird') relates to fixing her armor . . . :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
62: you watch the old replay of the Crowning of the English Queen Elisabeth II and you recognize peoples ranks by the Coronets they are wearing.. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
63: when you visit a period castle, notice the draperies and bedspreads, and think of what lovely clothing they would make... :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
64: you visit a period castle, museum, historical site, etc. and you can spot the mistakes in the tour guide's lecture. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
65: while watching the same Crowning, you all of a sudden tell your Lady, 'We could use that stuff at Our Coronation..' :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
66: when your boss hands you a magazine and tells you to check out the article on full armor. But when you start leafing through the magazine expecting to see pictures of helms, breastplates, etc. you discover that it's an article about a PC security package called Full Armor. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
67: You get a question about OOP programming techniques on a Comp Sci exam and think:*ALL programming is Out Of Period*.:)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
68: you ask the guy at the Welder's Supply store for 16 gauge steel wire for chainmail and he gives you a blank looks and asks, 'What's chainmail?' :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
69: when your girlfriend, not you, is the bored one being dragged from fabric/clothing store to fabric/clothing store. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
70: the lady at the fabric store asks your girlfriend if she needs help and she points at you saying, 'He's the one looking for material.' :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
71: you get a Christmas card in the mail and you look at the shepherds and background figures with a magnifying glass to see the costuming details. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
72: your sweatpants have holes in the knees and rust stains, because you wore your armor over/under them. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
73: you sneer at *the Burger King* saying *He's wearing a county coronet*.:)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
74: your kid gets a cardboard punch out castle and you take it away from him and put it together yourself; point out the flaws in the architecture; based on your assessment of the flaws in the architecture, figure out how you and your household could, hypothetically capture it if it was a real castle. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
75: your kid gets a bunch of plastic knights you swipe them to outline your tactical ideas for the next war/fighter practice with your friends. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
76: you're a burly guy who looks like a Hell's Angel, but you do embroidery in public. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
77: you hide the really awful costume references in the stacks at the library, so future costumers won't be led astray. Or, you write criticisms in the margins of said awful costume references. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
78: you * reality check * wargames and role-playing games by saying *That's wrong! I know that Duke Swaetsox can do X... (where X = some combat-related feat), I've seen people do that in the SCA!* :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
79: you watch Henry V (or the Zefferelli Romeo and Juliet) over, and over, and over, again - for the costumes/fighting scenes. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
80: your immediate family consists of only two rather small, thin people, but you justify your purchase of a full-sized van/pickup truck saying 'We'll need the extra space for events!' :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
81: you show up for work on Monday with the most INTERESTING bruises. (Or possibly a chain mail weave sunburn). :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
82: your reaction when you see some sort of handicraft is* I can make that* or *I can buy that from Mistress Seamchecker for half that!* :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
83: you're annoyed because the armor at the art museum isn't displayed so that you can get a good photograph of the back/insides. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
84: you're in Europe you pass up famous OOP sites to see tiny little places that might have related to your persona.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
85: when you do aerobics, you do galliards in time to the music.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
86: when you make a new recipe you take out the potatoes, tomatoes and peppers, because they're OOP for Europe, even if you're making succotash!
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
87: you choose your language courses in college based on what your persona would have spoken (...Man! I'm really bummed out that they aren't teaching Anglo-Saxon this semester...)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
88: you mutter *What a waste* every time you see rattan lawn furniture.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
89: your reference section on your field of interest is better than the equivalent section in the local library.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
90: you slip and begin a letter *Good Milord...*
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
91: you slip and date a letter *The Tuesday before Michealmass, A.S. XXVII (or whatever).
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
92: you're annoyed because your new printer didn't come with Luxhaeiul miniscule or Batarde as one of the standard fonts.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
93: people don't assume that you're going in for surgery when you say *This weekend, I'm going to get my knees fixed.*
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
94: your idea of a sack lunch is mince-meat pie, cold mulled cider and wafers left over from the feast the week-end before.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
95: your hobby takes more of your time than your job.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
96: you start to wear your hair the way your persona might have worn his/hers. (...Smith, it's not so much the waist length beard, but do you really have to braid it?...)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
97: you sign a check, using calligraphy.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
98: you name your pets after obscure historical figures.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
99: you name your children after obscure historical figures.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
100: people think you're in a commune because you're alway talking about your 'household'.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
101: you rattle when you walk, because you're wearing a mail shirt under your shirt.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
102: people think you have a room mate because your answering machine says *neither Fred or Froddi are in right now...*
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
103: people assume that you're an exchange student/recent immigrant because they hear people calling you by the most outlandish names...
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
104: you see *Fields of Armor* listed as a program on The Discovery Channel, and are REAL disappointed that its about tanks.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
105: your mundane friend came over because he was looking for duct tape and he was sure you`d have some lying around.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
106: you overhear the 10-year-old at the next picnic table quoting Macbeth... accurately.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
107: your five year old daughter, who is watching a video of the Gene Kelly Musical *Brigadoon* (Scottish Wedding scene), looks up and says in a clear scornful voice, *Bad Pensic Garb!!!!*
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
108: when you overhear your three-year old meeting new little friends at the playground and he asks, *What's your name?* then *What's your SCA name?*
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
109: when your 4th grader writes an essay in school about a time when she *felt special* and writes about the time Daddy carried her favor in a tourney and how great it was when he won his first 2 bouts and how disappointed she was when he got killed in the semi-finals and then the teacher calls you and wants to know if your husband has died.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
110: [your child`s] pre-school teacher asks the children to name one item they would take camping, and she pipes up with *A Sword!*. (The little girl in question has never been camping EXCEPT at SCA wars.) The Christian pre-school teacher was best described as 'not amused'.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
111: the crowd of ladies you are escorting to the shopping mall are heading to the wrong door you shout SHIFT LEFT! SHIFT LEFT!
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
112: If you're bruised black and blue every Monday morning.... and you enjoyed getting that way....
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
113: you pick up the bin lid and automatically snap it up to a defensive position...
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
114: you're wearing chainmail to the office hidden under your jumper because you need to get used to moving round in it....
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
115: you sneer at sword fights in films because any fool can tell they're not within striking distance of their opponents...
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
116: you're in the front row of the company staff photograph and tell your neighbor to dress the line...
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
117: dessert is served in stainless steel dishes, you start speculating on how easy they would be to beat into shield bosses...
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
118: you used to have a wok, but now you've got a spangenhelm...
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
119: you were asked to find a broom handle to work a jack with and couldn't find a broom but came back with a longaxe and a spear...
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
120: you can describe the tactics, strategy, weapons, armor and troops used in hundreds of medieval battles, but don't know why they were fought...
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
121: you can't raise your arms above horizontal on a Monday morning
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
122: you're daft enough to lock the keys in your van, but you managed to pry a window open with your sword...
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
123: you consider a blue card and an authorization card two pieces of documentation.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
124: you consider Art/Sci a weekend off between lists...
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
125: you're parking your friend's car, and (being extremely nervous) he shouts *HOLD!* as you're backing up... And you hit the brakes...
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
126: you find yourself incapable of small hand motions and can only move your whole arm, or at best, wrist flicks.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
127: [you`re female and] 'You're so aggressive!' is a compliment!
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
128: you see a beautiful member of the opposite sex sitting on a Rattan seat and you realize that you are staring at the chair.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
129: someone mentions research and you say 'Why? School's out right now.':)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
130: you would rather pack you halbard and your pike instead of food on your way to war. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
131: you are cleaning up after an event and all that you can think of is how great this aluminum table edging would be on a shield ... and for that matter, drop the legs and put on a handle, it's good light plywood, well reinforced, a little on the large side but maybe for war... :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
132: you slow down on the highways when there's no traffic because you`re looking for a new shield boss. :)
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
133: You go into the bathroom to shave, and instead of nylons hanging from the shower rod, there's a collection of helm bonnets.
-- Wolfgang Rotkopf, 2004-07-01 Edit. or Delete.
134: Your answering machine has four mailboxes packed with messages, yet only two people live in the house.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
135: You hear there's a new movie out called 'The War of the Roses' and are disappointed to learn it's about a messy divorce!
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
136: You see 'FIELDS OF ARMOR' listed as a program on The Discovery Channel, and are very disappointed that its about tanks.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
137: A magazine article titled 'FULL ARMOUR' piques your interest, but when you start leafing through the magazine expecting to see pictures of helms, breastplates, etc. you're disappointed to discover that it's an article about a PC security package.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
138: Seeing someone in full plate, a tabard, and Reeboks does not strike you as odd.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
139: You can't pass the scrap skip outside the local sheet metal shop without raiding it for raw materials
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
140: Your 'first car' is a transit van.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
141: You can work out, accurately, how many crossbow bolts, arrows, etc. you need for a weekend, but believe that a tin of Ravioli will feed you for three days
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
142: You hear an American tourist in Edinburgh talking about his family tartan, and proceed to give him a two-hour lecture on the origins of tartan.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
143: You can't watch horse-racing without thinking of withstanding a cavalry charge.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
144: You close every curtain in your house before getting changed, but will happily undress to get into kit in the middle of a public carpark.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
145: You go to the fabric shop to buy some material for a caparison for your horse and a surcoat for yourself and the lady at the counter asks you how long you and your horse have been dressing alike.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
146: You use a scramseax as a door wedge.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
147: You use a Moniac Mead bottle to prop open your window.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
148: You buy reproduction 14th Cheamware pots and use them as normal everyday coffee cups.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
149: You fix your watch strap using a scramseax.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
150: You use the phrase 'Bugger this for a game of soldiers' other than metaphorically'.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
151: You can sleep through drunken singing, gaming and three part harmony snoring echoing off castle walls.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
152: You recognise people in battle scenes in TV programmes and films.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
153: You have weapons stacked in the living room.
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154: After getting back from an event you pop out of the house to post a letter and are halfway down the road before you realise youre still barefoot.
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155: You get completely confused when packing for a camping trip that isnt an SCA event and have this nagging suspicion all weekend that youve forgotten something.
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156: You can't sing without a drink in your hand.
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157: You drive by some open land and think 'What a great place for a battle!'
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158: Your idea of a fun weekend is sleeping outside in the rain.
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159: You can spot 100% wool at 30 yards.
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160: You have a whole room of your house given over as an armoury.
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161: You have ever said the words 'only X more days until (some event)!'.
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162: You have received cuts, burns, pulled out thorns, got poison ivy, and still look forward to camping at events.
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163: Life's essentials are fighting and booze!
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164: Your dinner guests see your kit and ask if you're in a play.
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165: In the middle of summer, you dread wearing a short sleeved shirt in your air conditioned office, but you can't wait to get to the next event, where you can dress in three layers of wool and sit round a campfire.
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166: You've worn wool when the temperature tops 100 degrees Fahrenheit, repeatedly.
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167: You make a career decisions based on their effect on your weekends.
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168: No one will attend a historical film with you.
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169: You see the riot police on TV and start critiquing their shield wall.
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170: People greet you on Monday morning with 'So did you kill anyone this weekend?'.
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171: You can't use your dining table because it's covered in half finished mail.
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172: You have a table specifically for making mail so it doesn't take up your dining table.
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173: You suffer from post-battle depression.
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174: You know every line in Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail by heart.
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175: You've stopped watching Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail because you know every line by heart.
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176: Bad fighting and/or costuming has ruined an otherwise decent movie for you.
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177: You're a burly guy who looks like a Hell's Angel, but you do embroidery in public.
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178: At a formal dinner party, you politely grab your sleeve to keep it from dropping in the food, only to realize you're wearing a suit.
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179: You can eat equally well with a dagger or a fork.
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180: You've decorated a cake in Celtic knot-work.
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181: You return to work after a weekend event, only to find you left all your money in your belt pouch.
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182: You sometimes wear your jackets closed only by the top button and without putting your arms through the sleeves.
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183: After a party you ask yourself 'Hmmm. Now where are my clothes?' and you're stone sober and fully dressed.
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184: You're watching what's been billed as the most romantic scene in any movie ever, and all you can think is: What kind of armor is he wearing?
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185: You're watching what's been billed as the most romantic scene in any movie ever, and all you can think is: You can't do that wearing that style of armour.
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186: You can and do curse in Gaelic, but you aren't Scottish
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187: You have more kit than clothes and the kit is in better condition.
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188: You visit a period castle, notice the draperies and bedspreads, and think of what lovely clothing they would make.
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189: You visit a period castle, museum, historical site, etc. and you can spot the mistakes in the tour guide's lecture.
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190: You get a Christmas card in the mail and you look at the shepherds and background figures with a magnifying glass to see the costuming details.
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191: Your kid gets a cardboard punch out castle and you take it away from him and put it together yourself, point out the flaws in the architecture, and based on your assessment of the flaws in the architecture, figure out how you could, hypothetically capture it if it was a real castle.
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192: Your kid gets a bunch of plastic knights you swipe them to outline your tactical ideas for the next war/battle practice with your friends.
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193: You hide the really awful costume references in the stacks at the library, so future costumers won't be led astray. Or, you write criticisms in the margins of said awful costume references.
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194: You watch Henry V (or the Zefferelli Romeo and Juliet) over, and over, and over, again - for the costumes/fighting scenes.
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195: Your immediate family consists of only two rather small, thin people, but you justify your purchase of a full-sized van/pickup truck saying 'We'll need the extra space for events!'
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196: You're annoyed because the armor at the art museum isn't displayed so that you can get a good photograph of the back/insides.
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197: Your reference section on your field of interest is better than the equivalent section in the local library.
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198: Your idea of a packed lunch is mince-meat pie, cold mulled cider and wafers left over from the feast the week-end before.
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199: Your hobby takes more of your time than your job.
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200: You name your pets after obscure historical figures.
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201: You name your children after obscure historical figures.
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202: People assume that you're an exchange student/recent immigrant because they hear people calling you by the most outlandish names.
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203: You read a book that involves the plague and can diagnose which of the two or three types of plague it is from the symptoms.
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204: The decorating scheme of your home is 'bookcase eclectic'.
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205: You take a medieval history course in college, and find out you already own the textbooks.
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206: You describe your company's logo to the printer's shop using heraldic terms.
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207: Instead of having dreams about being out in public with no clothes on, you have dreams about being at an event in mundane clothing.
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208: You catch yourself thinking ''Gules, three chevrons or'. Nice tabard. Classic Anglo-Norman style, easily visible. Oh! I guess it'd better be visible, he's a road repair worker!
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209: You go running up the stairs at work and reach down to hold the hem of your underdress up so as not to trip over it... and you're wearing trousers.
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210: You dress your decorative lawn elves/animals in period kit matching your own.
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211: You can cook an egg on a rock, but not toast in a toaster.
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212: You can make a loaf of bread faster than you can program a bread machine.
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213: You make all your own bread and you don't own a bread pan.
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214: Your mundane friends wangle invitations for Sunday supper so they can sample the feast leftovers.
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215: Your 8-year-old daughter gets a poseable Barbie for her birthday and you immediately see if she can assume all of the heraldic positions with an eye toward a future heraldry class.
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216: A student greets you in a Monday morning class by asking 'So, did your wife kill anyone this weekend?'
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217: Your wife asks you 'Do you want me to buy you some black tights for the wedding we're going to this weekend?' and you say yes.
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218: Your friend invites you to a 'dress nice' party, and you realize that your best looking clothes are your banqueting kit.
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219: Your friend tells you her new boyfriend works in a fabric store and your first thought is 'How cool!'
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220: The only time you can see your living room floor is when your van is packed for an event.
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221: You buy a town out of rivets.
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222: Your bible study is going over the Armor of God... and they ask you to bring examples.
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223: You see a mother tenderly picking a splinter out of her son's hand with a shortsword.
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224: You pull out a wax tablet to write down someone's email address at an event
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225: You buy a bottle of booze just for the neat pouch.
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226: Your buying black walnuts and ferrous sulfate from a health food store mean a new 'dye' not a new 'diet'.
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227: You go to a Catholic mass with your in-laws, and you spend the whole time admiring the garb on the priest and in the stained glass windows.
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228: You have to find something else to wear on Halloween, because your kit just doesn't feel like a costume anymore.
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229: Your coworkers seem a little concerned that you're planning a 'period' party, and you're male.
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230: 'Dining room large enough for a dozen scribes and all their equipment' or 'garden big enough to hold a battle practice' appears on the must-have list for your new house.
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231: You can't decide whether to wear the Celtic kit or the Norman kit for a costume to your company's costume ball.
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232: You go to the hardware store and ask for a drawknife for shaving rattan, only to have them explain that no one makes them anymore.
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233: Your 'best china' consists of wooden feast gear and drinking horns.
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234: The worst loss of your flooded basement is not the washer or the furnace, but the scrolls you were framing...
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235: You plan your car-trip vacations around events happening in other areas and even pack accordingly.
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236: Your mum gives you a book about chivalry for your birthday, inscribed with the words 'chivalry will never die as long as there are hearts as true as yours'
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237: You're male and you see an attractive woman in a skin-tight black velvet dress, and your primary thought is 'Wow!! What I wouldn't give for ten yards of that!'
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238: You're babysitting and you wonder if they'd give you the curtains as pay
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239: The gynecologist asks 'When is your period?', and you answer 'Early 14th century (or whenever)'.
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240: You go to a funeral and spend your time looking at the great pavilion over the grave site and wonder where they got it
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241: Cleaning your knives (and axes, and swords and spears) is not only an entire evening's work, but an entire evening's entertainment!
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242: You start wearing your tankard and belt pouch around with your mundanes, because it's so darn convenient.
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243: You don't think twice about inviting all your friends over to watch 'Scourge of the Black Death' on the History Channel, and have no doubts that almost everyone will come.
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244: Your future husband's wedding garb costs more than yours, and has more trim.
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245: 'Two helmets, Anglo-Norman style preferred' appears on your wedding registry.
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246: You've called your dorm ahead of time to ask if it's OK to keep swords in your room.
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247: You realize you've used porta-loos more often than 'flushies' recently.
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248: A gift certificate at an upholstery store was one of your favorite birthday gifts this year.
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249: The worst news you've had all year is that the leather store near you is closing!
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250: You're disappointed that your British Literature textbook doesn't have Beowulf in parallel text.
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251: You enter your lady's boudoir for the first time, and the first words to escape your lips are 'Nice sewing machine!'.
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252: Costumed people going into Rocky Horror have asked you about your 'funny clothes'.
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253: You're female and you've walked straight into a door on a Monday morning because you just expected the coworker you're entering with to stop and open it for you.
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254: After viewing this list, your mundane significant other chuckles for days, while you mutter to yourself 'I don't see what's so funny about that.'
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255: You show up for work on Monday with the most interesting bruises. (Or possibly a mail weave sunburn).
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256: You get mail as a wedding present.
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257: A man says 'whoa! Nice legs! Hubba hubba!' and he's talking about your armor.
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258: You rattle when you walk, because you're wearing a mail shirt under your shirt to save carrying it.
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259: Street signs look like armor trees, round shields, war shields...
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260: If you're bruised black and blue every Monday morning.... and you enjoyed getting that way.
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261: You pick up the bin lid and automatically snap it up to a defensive position.
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262: You're wearing mail to the office hidden under your jumper because you need to get used to moving round in it.
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263: You sneer at sword fights in films because any fool can tell they're not within striking distance of their opponents
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264: Dessert is served in stainless steel dishes, you start speculating on how easy they would be to beat into shield bosses.
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265: You were asked to find a broom handle to work a jack with and couldn't find a broom but came back with a longaxe and a spear.
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266: You can describe the tactics, strategy, weapons, armor and troops used in hundreds of medieval battles, but don't know why they were fought.
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267: You can't raise your arms above horizontal on a Monday morning.
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268: You're daft enough to lock the keys in your van, but you managed to pry a window open with your sword.
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269: You find yourself incapable of small hand motions and can only move your whole arm, or at best, wrist flicks.
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270: You're female and 'You're so aggressive!' is a compliment!
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271: You see a beautiful member of the opposite sex sitting on a Rattan seat and you realize that you are staring, at the chair.
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272: You would rather pack you halberd and your pike instead of food on your way to war.
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273: You are cleaning up after an event and all that you can think of is how great this aluminum table edging would be on a shield. And for that matter, drop the legs and put on a handle, it's good light plywood, well reinforced, a little on the large side but maybe for war...
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274: You get your van stuck in a bog, but escape by unloading the shields and driving out over them
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275: After an event, while getting dressed in mundanes, you don your swordbelt and weapons.
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276: Your sweatpants have holes in the knees and rust stains, because you wore your armor over/under them.
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277: You've ruined your deep fat fryer using it to melt wax.
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278: Watching Blankety Blank the word Chain_____ comes up and you immediately think 'Mail' and are really disappointed when it doesn't come up.
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279: You see a sign in M&S saying 'AUTHENTIC UNDERWEAR' and are disappointed to find out it's just a brand name.
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280: You see a poster saying 'SAXON!' and are disappointed when it turns out to be the name of a band.
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281: You see a sign that reads 'TANNING' and comment to your spouse 'I wonder what kinds of skins and hides they have?',
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282: You see a sign that reads 'FENCING' and you wonder about their price their foils and epees.
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283: A truck passes you on the motorway labeled 'MAKERS OF THE FINEST BELTS AND HOSES' and you think they're carrying kit!
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284: You see an ad saying 'LEARN HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN BOWS' and are disappointed when you realize they're talking about tying ribbons.
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285: You see a magazine ad that begins: 'You wouldn't take a period remedy for your headache...' and think, 'What, leeches? Herbal infusions?' before you notice the rest of the ad reads: 'So don't take a headache remedy for your period'.
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286: You see a nun in the grocery store wearing the habit for her order and you think to yourself 'what nice garb she has' without thinking twice about the fact that you're not at an event.
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287: You see a large sign saying 'COMING SOON: THE VIKING YOUTH ACADEMY', only to be disappointed that it's a daycare center.
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288: You see playground equipment (swings, seesaws, etc) and think 'Siege Engines!'.
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289: You rush out to see a movie called 'CELTIC PRIDE', but storm out ten minutes in when you find out it's about basketball.
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290: A 'WEBSITE DEVOTED TO ICONS' disappoints you when it's not about religious relics, but only about some silly downloadable bitmaps.
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291: They run away from being tagged, calling 'illegal hit!'
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292: You have to warn your two-year old not to hit anyone with his sword that Isn't wearing armour.
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293: While trick-or-treating, someone asks your son what he is, and he replies: 'I'm Guy de Lacy, a pre-tabard 11th century Norman who settled near Cornwall!'....
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294: They don't know their right hand from their left hand, but they do know their sword arm from their shield arm.
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295: Your child's 'what I did last summer' paper describes how much fun it was to watch their best friend kill a complete stranger.
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296: They're an early infant class, but decorate their work folders with Celtic knotwork.
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297: Their teacher complains that their handwriting is so bad that it's illegible, and when you examine it you find it's Norse runes. (YKYAR too if this makes you proud)
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298: Your six-year-old chooses to write her first book report on 'The Pennsic Wars and Living Medieval'.
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299: Your kid can't make the school baseball/rounders team because he/she swings the bat like a bastard sword.
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300: Your child writes an essay in school about a time when she 'felt special' and writes about the time Daddy carried her favor in a tourney and how great it was when he won his first 2 bouts and how disappointed she was when he got killed in the semi-finals and then the teacher calls you and wants to know if your husband has died.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
301: Your child's pre-school teacher asks the children to name one item they would take camping, and she pipes up with 'A sword!'. (The little girl in question has never been camping except at events.) The Christian pre-school teacher was best described as 'not amused'.
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302: Your 11-year-old is going over spelling words and shrieks in delight when she sees 'parry'... and you suggest her sentence should be 'A rubber chicken is an effective parry weapon'.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
303: Your kids make fun of the 'square bread' at the grocery store.
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304: Your son is taking Woodwork so he can make toys, and Home Ec so he can run a feast kitchen... and his friends see what he's making in metalwork and stop hassling him about taking Home Ec.
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305: Your child recognizes that tune as 'Greensleeves'.
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306: Your children correct their history teacher.
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307: You ask your 8-year-old daughter what she wants for her birthday, and she replies 'Kit like Mummy !'
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308: Your wife announces that she will be cleaning her skirt, then fills a bucket with sand (to remove the rust).
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309: You go into the bathroom to shave, and instead of nylons hanging from the shower rod, there's a collection of helm bonnets.
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310: Your husband has more pairs of tights than you do.
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311: Your husband, not you, is the one dragging you from fabric store to fabric store.
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312: The lady at the fabric store asks your wife if she needs help and she points at you saying, 'He's the one looking for material'.
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313: You watch a film and think 'No, you can't do that if the jacket/breeches/overalls etc are properly made.
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314: You watch a war movie and criticise the drill and marching of the troops in the background while totally ignoring the foreground characters.
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315: You can find (or adapt) a quote from 'Zulu' for any occasion.
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316: You watch the middle (patrol movie) section of 'Saving Private Ryan' in a cinema and have to be asked not to laugh so loudly.
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317: You watch a film/video with a notebook to note the pros and cons of the kit.
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318: You go to a performance of 'Journey's End' and send the wardrobe mistress a critique of the Uniforms & equipment and how they could be improved.
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319: You watch the 'Trooping of the Colour' thinking the lines need re-dressing and why can't they do it properly, using the 1881 drill manual, in Slade-Wallace equipment and with long Lee-Enfields.
-- Alaxandr, 2004-06-27 Edit. or Delete.
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