Grynmoors Device

     
   
     
  Bismillah ir Rahman ir Raheem

You know you're in the SCA when...

From the original list at http://www.cylist.com/List/400300481/
You-Know-You-re-in-the-SCA-When.html

... you overhear the 10-year-old at the next picnic table quoting Macbeth... accurately.
... a sideless surcoat is the sexiest thing in your closet.
... you heard two stories this evening that started "No sh*t, there I was..."
... you provision all the props and costumes for a school production of a medieval play from your closet.
... you yell "Huzzah" at mundane events instead of cheering "normally".
... there's an anvil in your bedroom.
... after viewing this list, your non-scadian significant other chuckles for days, while you mutter to yourself "I don't see what's so funny about that."
... The words "couldst", "wouldst", and "shouldst" come more easily to your tongue than "chicken".
... the "Books on Tape" in your car include: Cooking for 500 or more, Autocratting Pennsic, and Beginning Welsh.
... you have MADE a Book On Tape with a similar title.
... you have period garments for a black-tie event, but no mundane ones.
... bad heraldry and/or costuming has ruined an otherwise decent movie for you.
... a truly bad anachronism has ruined an otherwise good romance novel for you.
.. you consider wearing 3 different tartans at once to be high fashion.
... everyone at your graduation wants to know where you learned to bow.
... you've brushed your teeth with beer, because it was easier to find than clean water.
... someone has threatened to get "Prehistoric on your ass".
... after a party you ask yourself "Hm. Now where are my clothes?" and you're stone sober and fully dressed.
... the axe you're using to chop wood was one you made yourself.
... you have two different .signature files, which have no words in common except the email address.
... someone asks you where you got your chainmail hauberk, and you reply, "In 200 foot rolls at Home Depot."
... you know every line in Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail by heart.
... you're a burly guy who looks like a Hell's Angel, but you do embroidery in public.
... 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.
... during a conversation, you avoid using the other person's name, not because you don't know it, but because you can't pronounce it.
... you can eat equally well with a dagger or a fork.
... you've decorated a cake in celtic knot work.
... you return to work after a weekend event, only to find you left all your money in your belt pouch.
... you sometimes wear your jackets closed only by the top button and without putting your arms through the sleeves.
... 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?
... you can and do curse in Gaelic, but you aren't Scottish.
... your teddy bear has better garb than you do.
... your garb closet is bigger than your clothes closet and the clothes are in better condition.
... 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.
... while watching the crowning of Queen Elisabeth II, you all of a sudden tell your lady, "We could use that stuff at Our Coronation".
... you visit a period castle, notice the draperies and bedspreads, and think of what lovely clothing they would make.
... you visit a period castle, museum, historical site, etc. and you can spot the mistakes in the tour guide's lecture.
... you get a question about OOP programming techniques on a Comp Sci exam and think: "ALL programming is Out Of Period".
... [you're male and] your girlfriend, not you, is the bored one being dragged from fabric/clothing store to fabric/clothing store.
... [you're male and] you have to worry about a run in your stocking when you kneel to propose to your fiance.
... 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".
... 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.
... you sneer at "the Burger King" saying "He's wearing a ducal coronet".
... 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 and your household could, hypothetically capture it if it was a real castle.
... 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.
... 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.
... you "reality check" war games 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!"
... you watch Henry V (or the Zefferelli Romeo and Juliet) over, and over, and over, again - for the costumes/fighting scenes.
... 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!"
... 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!"
... 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.
... you're in Europe and you pass up famous OOP sites to see tiny little places that might have related to your persona.
... while you do aerobics, you do galliards in time to the music.
... you make a new recipe you take out the potatoes, tomatoes and peppers, because they're OOP for Europe.
... 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...)
... your reference section on your field of interest is better than the equivalent section in the local library.
... you've been asked by a museum curator what your opinion is regarding the item at hand.
... you slip and begin a letter "Good Milord..."
... you slip and address a coworker as Milord or Milady.
... you slip and date a letter "The Tuesday before Michealmas, A.S. XXVII" (or whatever).
... you're annoyed because your new printer didn't come with Luxhaeiul miniscule or Batarde as one of the standard fonts.
... people don't assume that you're going in for surgery when you say "This weekend, I'm going to get my knees fixed".
... your idea of a sack lunch is mince-meat pie, cold mulled cider and wafers left over from the feast the week-end before.
... your hobby takes more of your time than your job.
... 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?...)
... you sign a check, using calligraphy.
... you name your pets after obscure historical figures.
... you name your children after obscure historical figures.
... people think your in a commune because you're always talking about your "household".
... people think you have a roommate because your answering machine says "Neither Fred or Froddi are in right now..."
... people assume that you're an exchange student/recent immigrant because they hear people calling you by the most outlandish names.
... you have to remind yourself not to call that tourist in the checkered golf pants "Sir" just because he's wearing a white belt.
... you see a college diploma on a friend's wall and the first thing you ask is "Who did the calligraphy?"
... 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.
... your home has medieval-theme decor.
 

AND NOW FOR SOME OF OUR OWN
... you learn html and web-design so you can launch an SCA related website.
... you launch an SCA related website.
... you see a large piece of farm land and think, "What a great tourney site that would make!"
... you have the urge to haggle prices with the grocery store check-out clerk.
... you have the opportunity to go to Egypt...and go mainly for the garb.
... you can't find your scissors or scotch tape, but know exactly where your sharpest dagger and duct tape is for wrapping presents. (visitor submission)
... instead of modern things, your Christmas wish-list consists of things with which to make armor. (visitor submission)

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