Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA20291; Fri, 18 Mar 94 18:31:36 EST Received: from BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA18996; Fri, 18 Mar 94 18:31:32 EST Received: by bloom-beacon.mit.edu (5.61/25-eef) id AA15870; Fri, 18 Mar 94 18:25:17 EST Received: from netop8.harvard.edu by bloom-beacon.mit.edu with SMTP (5.61/25-eef) id AA15865; Fri, 18 Mar 94 18:25:12 EST Received: from mhs.harvard.edu by NETOP8.HARVARD.EDU (PMDF V4.2-15 #4379) id <01HA4KEZKQVK00004E@NETOP8.HARVARD.EDU>; Fri, 18 Mar 1994 18:08:07 EDT Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 11:41:57 -0400 (EDT) From: JAP@LASPAU.mhs.harvard.edu Subject: Re: A Plot to keep our burough To: carolingia@bloom-beacon.mit.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 11:50:25 -0400 (EDT) Hop-Count: 2 Conversation-Id: C0134361022C8CD1 >Working without a patron in the SCA (oh, all right, in Carolingia) is like >running up a down escalator with oil spills on it while people shoot salt >pellets at you, and folk like Cariadoc argue that the speed of the escalator >should be turned up a few notches. (I am referring to his position on >AoAs.) Actually, until this discussion, I had never heard of SCA patrons. I joined through the boroughs, like many people, and established myself through the services I performed, the activities I frequented, and the socializing I engaged in (dangling participle - my apologies). Do people really have patrons? What does a patron do? Who is/was your patron, Franz? I'm also fuzzy on this escalator speed metaphor...(what *is* his position on AoA's?) -Siubhan/Layla al-Nashiz ------------------------------------------------------------------ jpelland@harvard.edu "Disobedience was Woman's Original Virtue"