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Sean Belair
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Posted: Tue 20 Jan, 2009 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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when friends and family stop questioning why you're holding a sword
when you get pissed off by grind marks on fire doors
when you're nether embarrassed nor enthusiastic about explaining what you do but pissed that you have do it again
when you professors ask you questions in class
when you yell at mythbusters
when you hate ren-fairs
when you can forge and temper steel but cant get your printer to work
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Dan P
Location: Massachusetts, USA Joined: 28 Jun 2007
Posts: 208
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Posted: Wed 21 Jan, 2009 4:56 am Post subject: |
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...When you give powerpoint presentations using a rapier instead of a laser pointer.
...When "Talk like a pirate day" changes from a curiosity to a strict observance.
...When it becomes "Dress and act like a pirate day" as well.
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Ed Toton
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Posted: Wed 21 Jan, 2009 11:15 am Post subject: |
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...when a friend mentions that they need to get a bassinet for their child, and you wonder where someone could possibly find a medieval helmet in baby-size, and why!
(true story)
-Ed T. Toton III
ed.toton.org | ModernChivalry.org
My armor photos on facebook
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Bram Verbeek
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Posted: Wed 21 Jan, 2009 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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About the rioters, I had that with the other side, when looking at a picture of a greek riot policeman all I could think about was "His stance is horrible, why does he have a shield when he does not use it and why is the line back there, and this guy here? Greeks should know how to form ranks you'd say..."
Storms also can help you to coppiced wood, it is otherwise almost impossible to get at reasonable prices.
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Mikael Ranelius
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Posted: Wed 21 Jan, 2009 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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... when you're considering mail rings for piercing (riveted of course!)
... when you refuse to use a fork as it is not "period"...
... or have forgot how to use a fork at all
... when you're analyzing how to beat everyone you see on the street in sword and buckler fighting
... when wearing mail or a padded jack beneath your clothes is a daily habit just in case anyone should attack you with swords or other medieval weapons
... when you sell your car to buy a destrier war horse instead
... and turn your garage into a stable for aforementioned destrier
... when people avoid going too near you in fear of getting soaked in weapon oil
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Jeff Del Vecchio
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Posted: Thu 22 Jan, 2009 8:16 am Post subject: |
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When your daughter's boyfriend comes over for the first time, and instead of cleaning guns, you're oiling a sword.
Yes, Aaron...happened to me...twice!
...when you get out of the shower and your 10 year old grandson attacks you with a waster. True, but you can fight back with another waster (stashed in the kitchen...)
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James Aldrich
Location: Green Bay WI Joined: 21 Aug 2003
Posts: 112
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Posted: Thu 22 Jan, 2009 9:03 am Post subject: |
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. . . when all your firearms are locked in a safe but nowhere in you home are you more than two steps from a weapon.
JSA
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Bryce Felperin
Location: San Jose, CA Joined: 16 Feb 2006
Posts: 552
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Posted: Thu 22 Jan, 2009 10:14 am Post subject: |
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James Aldrich wrote: | . . . when all your firearms are locked in a safe but nowhere in you home are you more than two steps from a weapon.
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God this is true for me! I have Machetes, Tomahawks, Knives and Swords all throughout my apartment and all my guns in my safe. :-)
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Nathan Gilleland
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Posted: Thu 22 Jan, 2009 10:52 am Post subject: you know you're into swords and armour too long... |
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When you hear a noise in the middle of the night and reach for your sword instead of a baseball bat.
When your apartment neighbors start asking you history questions when you pass in the hall.
When you have trouble spelling nighttime instead of "knighttime"
You get upset when someone spells armour "armor"
Seek Honor before Wealth,
Truth before Honor,
God Before all
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Ed Toton
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Posted: Thu 22 Jan, 2009 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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Bryce Felperin wrote: | James Aldrich wrote: | . . . when all your firearms are locked in a safe but nowhere in you home are you more than two steps from a weapon.
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God this is true for me! I have Machetes, Tomahawks, Knives and Swords all throughout my apartment and all my guns in my safe. :-) |
That's very true for me too, except they're not all locked up. Some are merely hidden
-Ed T. Toton III
ed.toton.org | ModernChivalry.org
My armor photos on facebook
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Ben P.
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Posted: Thu 22 Jan, 2009 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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When you install machiolations on your roof
When you start cussing at historical films
When you start cussing at the history channel
When you get arrested for arsony (Trying to burn down a ren-faire)
When you get thrown out of a SCA event for laughing and cussing
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JE Sarge
Industry Professional
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Posted: Thu 22 Jan, 2009 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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Ben P. wrote: |
When you get thrown out of a SCA event for laughing and cussing... |
This happened to me in 2002...
J.E. Sarge
Crusader Monk Sword Scabbards and Customizations
www.crusadermonk.com
"But lack of documentation, especially for such early times, is not to be considered as evidence of non-existance." - Ewart Oakeshott
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Gabriele A. Pini
Location: Olgiate Comasco, Como Joined: 02 Sep 2008
Posts: 239
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Posted: Fri 23 Jan, 2009 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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When in tv a comic say a joke about the use of the swords in the 20th and you think that he is talking about you...
When you are the only suspect for the death of the arsonist of your 12th century camp, found dead in his kitchen with a falchion in the back.
The fact that all his collection of weapons is subsequently found in your house is only a coincidence...
When an old hag warn you that you can't play the guitar in the protected oasis...
"What guitar?" you ask
"And what you would carry in a custody? a sword?"
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Michael B.
Industry Professional
Location: Seattle, WA Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Posts: 367
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Posted: Sun 25 Jan, 2009 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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From my personal experience...
When your targe building project has taken over the dining room.
When your girlfriend just requests that you keep the amour out of the kitchen, but the historical knives are fine.
When you catch said girlfriend opening the meat packages with your dirk.
When the hostess at a restaurant recognizes you as "the sword guy"
When in the bar, someone makes fun of you, punches you in your cuirass and the guy breaks his hand.
When you have to move weapons and armour out of the way for people to ride in your car.
When the theatre departments in the city start coming to you to borrow your armour, because they start to realize how fake theirs looks.
When the taxi driver doesn't stop because you are wearing full armour, then you chase him down wearing it.
When the cats use your pauldrons has a bed.
www.facebook.com/bearmountainforge2
Michael Bergstrom
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Ben P.
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Posted: Sun 08 Feb, 2009 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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When you buy a new car just so you drape it in Maille
When you wife starts using your falchion to cut meat
When you make all your windows into loopholes
When you swear by God and Jesus that you will hunt down the Director of Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven and burn him at stake
When you wife starts wearing your Gambeson
When your kid knows how to sharpen a dagger, tame a hawk and clean armor (very handy)
When the person who murdered your brother who burned down the ren-faire is found burned at stake the fact that his armor is in your closet is coincidence
When you have a deep and abiding hatred of horse archers, longbowmen, hussites and pikemen, and mentioning their names makes you twitch
When you start saying speaking old english and quoting Beowulf
When Shakespeare feels 'too new'
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Vincent Le Chevalier
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Posted: Mon 29 Jun, 2009 7:55 am Post subject: |
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You know you've been a sword geek for too long...
When you realize that heavy fencing gloves are cumbersome for typing on a computer
When you're used to typing with gloves on anyway
When you try to operate a computer with your rapier's tip... and succeed
When friends and coworkers start mentioning swords as your "alternative PhD"
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Vincent
Ensis Sub Caelo
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Norman McCormick
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Posted: Mon 29 Jun, 2009 10:37 am Post subject: |
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When your wife suggests she toys with your Dirk and you obligingly retrieve the sharp pointy thing from the weapons chest !!!!
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R D Moore
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Posted: Mon 29 Jun, 2009 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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When your neighbors of Asian descent stand on their gazebo and bow to you after watching your cutting practice....and you bow back in your best Errol Flynn.
When your wife is mad at you for cutting up the vegetables she was going to use for dinner.
When your wife is mad at you, again, for putting another gash in the cieling.
"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation" ...Gen. Douglas Macarthur
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Andrew Maxwell
Location: New Zealand Joined: 03 May 2009
Posts: 90
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Posted: Mon 29 Jun, 2009 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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When you hear the phrase "heavy metal" and launch into a rant about how historical armour isn't that heavy. When the conversation stops dead you realise they were talking about music.
When your wife isn't into swords, yet still immediately recognises the profile of a type XV.
When your wife runs a heavy duty magnet over all your clothing before putting it in the washing machine.
When your wardrobe is organised by century- and the current one has the smallest amount of space.
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Jim Mearkle
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Posted: Mon 29 Jun, 2009 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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When you are introduced to a woman at work, and bow over her hand instead of shaking it. (I did this)
When your definition good movie fight choreography is when you quietly say to your friend, "I can take him," instead of jumping up and yelling it to the whole audience. (most of my fencing friends have done this.)
When you lean your pole arm against the wall behind your desk at the welfare office, so the clients won't hassle you. (A friend of mine did this. In NYC. He's the guy who used to have a green shield with "THIS SIDE TOWARDS ENEMY" stenciled on the front.)
Jim
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