Re: [Mid] Comments from Court

Could work too.... :)
Back from another such meeting-well this one was actually pretty good...
Siobhan

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>From: Sally Burnell <sburnell@raex.com>
>To: sca-middle@midrealm.org
>Subject: Re: [Mid] Comments from Court
>Date: Wed, Nov 3, 1999, 6:05 PM
>

> 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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