What did I NOT see or hear at the Renaissance Faire today?

[Writer]

Poll question: What did I NOT see or hear at the Renaissance Faire today?

Today Mr. Writer and I dressed up (hee-haw :P) and went to the Colorado Renaissance Festival. I saw and heard plenty. So - what do you think I DIDN'T see or hear today?

[rug]

1. I like to ask them what time it is so they look at their watches.

[Writer]

2. ROFL

I also like the motorized shuttles that carry the appropriately-vested Renaissance folks from the parking area to the front gate. :P

[krispos42]

9. Oh, that's nothing

I went to Gettysburg for the 137th Annversary re-enectment back in 2000. How do you think they moved the artillery and caissons?

They had maybe two complete teams of horses. The rest?

Pick-up trucks.



I have a picture, but I can't post it now. It's on Yahoo Photos, which I can't link to, and my T-Mobile album, which I CAN link to, is down for maintenence.

Maybe later, if I remember :-)

[Writer]

3. Kick

for Geekdom, one and all.

[rockymountaindem]

4. Oh my God, I don't think I could ever go back there

That was one of the hottest, sweatiest, dustiest days in my life. Plus, yeah, it's the renaissance, not the high middle ages :P

[AlCzervik]

5. we used to go to the one in Houstonm i think it might have been Tomball actually

that was the first place i ever saw a fried turkey leg, this masshole was very confused.

[LostInAnomie]

6. People with self respect!

:rofl:

[Lethe]

7. but what about the important question?

did u have a giant turkey leg and mead???

[Writer]

23. I drank two glasses of watered down Woodchuck cider...

Mr. Writer ate the turkey leg.

I enjoyed a sausage on a stick :P

[BreweryYardRat]

8. Ren-Faires in Florida have to be held in Feb-April or Nov-Dec.

Otherwise folks would cook in their costumes.

Even those dates don't always work. I went to the Tampa Bay Faire last year in mid-April, wearing a white T-shirt and silver basketball shorts, and still damn near cooked.

[Orsino]

10. Did they have authentic medieval funnel cakes? n/t

[sarge43]

11. A reenactment of the Black Death pandemic. n/t

[taterguy]

12. Ya know some pics would be nice

Just saying

[Writer]

22. I have a couple of pics, actually...

of Mr. Writer and I...

I can't find my camera cord, though... x(

[bbernardini]

13. What, no Star Trek uniforms? nt

[NMDemDist2]

14. ROFL I knew a guy and his pals who did that every year

my friend went as Data and he was perfect in the role :rofl:

[KatyMan]

15. Saw a guy at the Texas Ren Fest

a few years ago (like 10 maybe) dressed as Riker and I swear he looked exactly like him. It was weird, he was by himself walking around, like he just beamed down to check it out for some r&r.

So who's the bigger geek, the person who went to the faire in Ren costume or the one who happens to own a full TNG uniform, and decides to wear it there? :)

Always loved the Texas festival, really a great time, big site, but getting too big last time we were there, and a little too commercial. Back in my single days my friends and I used to go every weekend (yes, losers, but we had some, ah, help from mother nature). Scarborough Faire near Dallas is a good one too.

[FloridaJudy]

16. The last Medieval Faire here

- And yes, we do have to hold them in February here, or all the participants in fur or armor would cook - I saw a woman dressed as a Buxom Tavern Wench reach into her considerable cleavage to pull out a ringing cell-phone. Another who made hand-woven kilts gave me a business card with her web-site on it.

I am one of those Geekesses who actually go in costume: an authentic Russian woman's dress and kokoshnik from the time of Ivan the Terrible. Face it, where else could I wear these?

[LibertyLover]

17. A few years ago, before the kidlet arrived

my husband and I worked a season at the Maryland Ren Faire. We were part of a re-enactment group that did German Landsknecht. In the real world, Henry VIII had a private guard made up of Landsknecht sent over to him by the German emperor. The MD Ren Faire supposedly takes place during the reign of Henry VIII and so the management thought it was cool to have the guy who played him guarded by Landsknecht. What the guys in the group did was make sure that the actor (a grand fellow named Bill, sadly dead now) who played Henry got to the places in the Faire he was supposed to be at on time and wasn't delayed. The women in the group trailed along with water and food to keep the guards hydrated and fed. It was interesting seeing the Faire from the other side, so to speak. It is a business, like any other. But the best thing was people watching. Each weekend during the run had a theme - like Scottish weekend, for example. One weekend, although not officially designated, was and is a pride weekend by the local glbt community. That weekend brings out some really interesting costumes. There is one group of gay men, 5 or 6 all told, who come in wearing huge wings - if anybody asks what they are, the answer is we are fairies. Although we don't work the Faire anymore (and neither does the re-enactment group) we go at least once a year and have seen that group several times. They are great.

[regularguy]

18. Dudes who've never even had a girlfriend jocularly

tossing about the term "wench".

[underpants]

19. A monkey riding a unicorn

:shrug:

ON EDIT- Oh you said it was the COLORADO Renaissance fair , never mind

[Marrah_G]

20. Pennsic, anyone?

If you have ask you probably do not wanna know.

[Deep13]

21. A guy saying...

..."My new girlfriend was really impressed with my article on myocardial inflamation in last month's A.M.A. journal."

[deepthought42]

24. Have you been to the MD RennFest???

If not, you must go! The season starts the last weekend of August. Huzzah! :toast:

Yes, I'm white & nerdy...lol :P

[Writer]

26. Huzzah!

(snort!)

We're white and nerdy, too...

unfortunately Maryland is a long drive from here.

[deepthought42]

33. Excuses...lol Ni!

Please...we have people from the UK who come to our RennFest! :P

:rofl: Glad to see other white & nerdy people here! :hi:

[Writer]

35. You mean you actually get to hear REAL English accents?

Instead of the overtwanged almost-cockney that I heard yesterday? :P

"Huzzah to thah gen-ah-rus tippah!"

:rofl:

[deepthought42]

36. Well... I have yet to meet any of them myself...

I'm usually hanging out near the Beer Garden.... :beer: :toast: *sheepish grin*

[reyd reid reed]

25. My kid dressed up

and harrassed some of the performers. Some guy kept hugging a tree and so my kid wrote a note that said "MY tree" and tied it to the trunk. And then, at the end, he kept asking the guys from the jousting tournament why they were still alive.

We had a good time.

:P

[Writer]

27. Were you there this weekend, RRR? n/t

[reyd reid reed]

28. Yup...we went yesterday.

All eight of us. #3 son was the only one who dressed, though...he made his costume Friday night and Saturday.

[Writer]

29. We may have bumped into one another and didn't know it.

:)

[reyd reid reed]

30. Quite possibly.

Although I've seen your picture, the costume probably would have made a difference.

[Writer]

31. When I finally get the camera I'll post our pics in this thread.

But yeah, I doubt you would have recognized me from what I've posted in the lounge. :)

[reyd reid reed]

32. I'll post a pic of my kid when I get them off the camera...

him, you might have seen. I didn't see anyone else dressed like he was.

:eyes:

[Taverner]

34. An out of work mime subbing as a harlequin

Subsequently getting the shit kicked out of him in the parking lot by a crew of fakirs and cads.