Re: [Mid] Comments from Court

At 05:43 PM 11/03/1999 -0600, Melanie Johnson wrote:
>:) 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?

Yup, how about finding a big huge fighter type to stand up and bellow a good
loud "OYEZ!!!!" when that happens. That is what happens in our shire if too
much banter goes on during local meetings. We just happen to have several
very large men with equally large voices who, with one loud "OYEZ!!!" can
silence an entire room.

Frankly, I would not be averse to a Court Herald doing that in the middle of
a Court if there was too much background banter going on. Times were, they
used to do that unashamedly. They just need to return to that practise.
(Hint, hint, Dafydd, Brent, Dmitrii and all the other Court Heralds I know
on this list!!)

YIS,
Lady Saradwen Ariandalen
Marche of Gwyntarian
(Akron/Kent, OH)

From: Sally Burnell <sburnell@raex.com>
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Received on Wed Nov 3 19:05:31 1999