Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!news-penn.gip.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!audrey01.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: w1ccan@aol.com (W1ccan) Newsgroups: rec.org.sca Subject: YKYITSCA when... Lines: 10 Message-ID: <1998052916485600.MAA08415@ladder01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder01.news.aol.com X-Admin: news@aol.com Date: 29 May 1998 16:48:56 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com You know you're in the SCA when you're on the computer, and the television is on and you hear "look at this heraldic drawing for resubmission" comming from the tv. You jump up and ask your bethrothed, "did that say what I think it did?", and it's really something about a police composite artist that can't draw what the victim really saw.. How disapointing.. (hoping recent submission passes) Anna Ask me about the cool bumperstickers I have on my truck. ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!news-penn.gip.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!howland.erols.net!portc02.blue.aol.com!audrey03.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: ejahnavi@aol.com (EJahnavi) Newsgroups: rec.org.sca Subject: Re: YKYITSCA when... Date: 1 Jun 1998 03:59:40 GMT Lines: 13 Message-ID: <1998060103594000.XAA13554@ladder03.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder03.news.aol.com X-Admin: news@aol.com References: <1998052916485600.MAA08415@ladder01.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com X-Newsreader: AOL Offline Reader In article <1998052916485600.MAA08415@ladder01.news.aol.com>, w1ccan@aol.com (W1ccan) writes: >Ask me about the cool bumperstickers I have on my truck. I'm new here, so I'll bite... What's the cool lbumpersticker you have on your truck? Elizabeth Jahnavi Tigerstar Sun-Goes-Down Holt http://members.aol.com/EJahnavi ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!enews.sgi.com!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!audrey01.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: runwulf@aol.com (Runwulf) Newsgroups: rec.org.sca Subject: Re: YKYITSCA when... Lines: 9 Message-ID: <1998060322584700.SAA26775@ladder01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder01.news.aol.com X-Admin: news@aol.com Date: 03 Jun 1998 22:58:47 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com References: <1998052916485600.MAA08415@ladder01.news.aol.com> You know you're in the SCA (and especially Heavy Weapons) when... You're in a sporting goods store, surveying the hockey and lacross gear, chuckling to yourself, or muttering any of the following: "This stuff is just so thin." "Man, this wouldn't stop a fly." "They call this protection?" -Runwulf ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeed.uk.ibm.net!sackheads.org!ibm.net!logbridge.uoregon.edu!feed2.news.erols.com!erols!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.130.5!mtf1!newsadm From: Richard Tucker Newsgroups: rec.org.sca Subject: Re: YKYITSCA when... Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 09:40:53 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Lines: 16 Message-ID: <6l68dc$rum@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> References: <1998052916485600.MAA08415@ladder01.news.aol.com> <1998060322584700.SAA26775@ladder01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.67.37.196 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0C-WorldNet (Win16; U) Runwulf wrote: > > You know you're in the SCA (and especially Heavy Weapons) when... > > You're in a sporting goods store, surveying the hockey and lacross gear, > chuckling to yourself, or muttering any of the following: "This stuff is just > so thin." "Man, this wouldn't stop a fly." "They call this protection?" > > -Runwulf Maybe it's because hockey gear is designed to protect against 'inadvertant contact' and we need gear designed to protect against 'intentional contact'. Remember, WE don't have a High Sticking penalty in our game. Charly the Bastard The Last Dworf in Ansteorra ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!woodstock.news.demon.net!demon!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.dejanews.com!nnrp1.dejanews.com!not-for-mail From: cskarcheski@yahoo.com Newsgroups: rec.org.sca Subject: Re: YKYITSCA when... Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 15:36:10 GMT Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion Message-ID: <6l6eta$di2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> References: <1998052916485600.MAA08415@ladder01.news.aol.com> <1998060322584700.SAA26775@ladder01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.183.16.135 X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Jun 04 15:36:10 1998 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/3.01 (Win16; U) Lines: 24 In article <1998060322584700.SAA26775@ladder01.news.aol.com>, runwulf@aol.com (Runwulf) wrote: > > You know you're in the SCA (and especially Heavy Weapons) when... > > You're in a sporting goods store, surveying the hockey and lacross gear, > chuckling to yourself, or muttering any of the following: "This stuff is just > so thin." "Man, this wouldn't stop a fly." "They call this protection?" > > -Runwulf > > Or when you're there with your husband & a couple of his squire brothers, looking at the soccer shinguards (adult sized no less), holding them up to the guys' forearms, and commenting that they're almost too *SMALL* to use as bracers!!!! Why don't they make this stuff in SCAdian size????? - Alixandara -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!freenet.columbus.oh.us!not-for-mail From: ksutterf@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Krysta Sutterfield) Newsgroups: rec.org.sca Subject: Re: YKYITSCA when... Date: 4 Jun 1998 15:44:06 -0400 Organization: The Greater Columbus FreeNet Lines: 10 Message-ID: <6l6te6$j87@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us> References: <1998052916485600.MAA08415@ladder01.news.aol.com> <1998060322584700.SAA26775@ladder01.news.aol.com> <6l68dc$rum@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 164.107.107.11 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Richard Tucker (nitecrawler7@worldnet.att.net) wrote: : Maybe it's because hockey gear is designed to protect against : 'inadvertant contact' and we need gear designed to protect against : 'intentional contact'. Remember, WE don't have a High Sticking penalty : in our game. Only with great weapons... -- ~Krysta Sutterfield / Lady Shandra IMPREGNABLE - A woman whose memory of labor is still vivid.