Re: [Mid] Comments from Court

:) Maybe that would work here. I (and several others in our group) have
huge problems getting people to shut up and listen to us when we have things
to say. You know it's bad when your seneschal brings stuff to your display
table and then asks you how your feast is going cause you didn't say much
about it at the meeting-I could not get people to shut up long enough for me
to say more than "It's fine." and "No." in response to a "do you know what
serving items you need yet?" which evidently scared people into thinking I
really had no idea three weeks before the event what was happening. But it
didn't stop them from doing the same thing during the same topic at the next
night's meeting. As a preschool teacher, I am so tempted to make them all
raise their arms in the air and breathe like we make the kids do when they
need to quiet down during group time...the thought has crossed my mind more
than once... okay ranting done.
Any other ideas?
Siobhan

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>From: Kuhfeld@aol.com
>To: sca-middle@midrealm.org
>Subject: Re: [Mid] Comments from Court
>Date: Wed, Nov 3, 1999, 11:26 AM
>

> In a message dated 11/3/99 6:50:35 AM Central Standard Time,
> HLMurphy@worldnet.att.net writes:
>
>> How about if we arrange for a special royal guard to stand near the back of
>> the Court hall and, whenever people start to chatter, thonk them in the
> head
>> with something? (That's an almost-period technique, from early American
>> Puritan church services. Church officers sometimes got a staff with a
>> wooden ball on the end to thonk talkers, and a feather to wake up
>> sleepers...)
>
> Long, long ago in Nordskogen ...
>
> Rosanore of Redthorn was Seneschal, and had problems with people talking
> during meetings. So I made her a half-dozen little red satin ricebag hearts.
> Sewed a Velcro loop dot on the side of each. Made her a belt of white
> elastic, with a red heartshaped buckle, with a half-dozen Velcro hook dots.
> She could go into the meeting with an ammunition-belt (as it were) of red
> satin hearts.
>
> When somebody talked she would, in the Puritan spirit of loving correction,
> throw a heart at them.
>
> Elli Lutemaker
> From: Kuhfeld@aol.com
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