Re: [Mid] Comments from Court

I read somewhere that they thonked talkers and sleepers alike. Nothing was
mentioned about a feather...

Medb ni Ciaran MacMurchadha
Widow by Trade

"It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end
to poke into the enemy." -- (Terry Pratchett; Lords and Ladies)

-----Original Message-----
From: Heather Murphy <HLMurphy@worldnet.att.net>
To: sca-middle@midrealm.org <sca-middle@midrealm.org>
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Mid] Comments from Court

>
>All through the Court, there was a constant drone of talking from
>>the seated feasters (who would not be served until Court was over,
anyway).
>
>
>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...)
>
>Jemma
>
>
>
>
>From: "Heather Murphy" <HLMurphy@worldnet.att.net>
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