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Originally posted by seryn:
There is a manly version of croquet,

read the Jasper Fforde books, the Thursday Next series.
Not only are they brilliant and rib achingly funny, but they feature a world where croquet is a stadium sport, played in full body armour, with italianate garden death traps and lawyers on hand to sue (i don't actually know how to spell that word in the sense of of'i'm going to --- you for every penny etc.etc.) or send off as they can.

ok, so it doesn't sound that exciting, but believe me, they're the sort of books you can't read on public transport for fear of laughing so much that random strangers try to get you committed.

Plus it helped give rise to the real life sport of Extreme Croquet, basically where the ball goes, you go, through supermarkets, up the sides of mountains, accross roads(!)

so there's manliness...

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Originally posted by seryn:
I'm going to have to admit my resounding idiocy and ask, SCA? and also

Huh? they played quidditch? isn't that played on brooms? er, how did they fly?

though jousting on motorbikes, sounds like my kinda spectacle, like to see them steer a bike in a frog-mouth though.

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Originally posted by seryn:
should have included picture first, sorry



Was a big ol' helmet bolted on to the harness (chesty bits)
Idea was the other person got more points for breaking their lance on your face (as far as I recall anyway) so having your helmet bolted on meant you didn't get yer head ripped off easier than a kid pulls petals off daisies.

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Originally posted by Orpheus:
Though, if I remember correctly, I sat right next to Haken during the BDM.

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Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:

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Originally posted by Orpheus:
Though, if I remember correctly, I sat right next to Haken during the BDM.

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You sat next to Haken!?!? *swoon*

Meeting him was like meeting a celebrity. I was very excited. I think he even signed my VC. And I also met ScrewtheAlliance that night. (The guy that wrote Kaylee's Lament and the Treasure of Lei Fong Wu. Fantastic stuff.) I was a bit star struck.

I did try to go around and meet as many people as I could, but I was a bit busy, as I was staff and was running interference for Ash (XandlerLHarris, or shiny Shindig goddess who arranged the whole weekend.)

That was a great night, though, wasn't it? I hope we'll do another one when we get our sequel!

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny

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Originally posted by seryn:
I did armour for my college dissertation, I have so many bizarre pictures on my computer now it's unreal, and yet I can't bring myself to get rid of them

you never know when the random-topic-stream-generator will make them useful again.

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Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:



All right, I'll bite, Who's Haken? Obviously he's CSM's favorite Haken, but that leaves me without context.

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And, is this bashing folks' heads about some kind of reaction to the bra size issues?

Clearly I'm out of the loop, eh?

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Originally posted by seryn:
o gods, if only leaving out the 'u' would save on the weight. I was playing with a suit and a broadsword once, now with out the gloves and gauntlets and all of the arm bits, waving the sword around like a pro, swish swoosh, fear me evil do-ers... etc.
with the gloves, gauntlets, vambraces blah blah blah,

well lets just say I was more dangerous, but not in a good way.

Damn are they hard to work in, I dropped the sword twice, just glad I was standing on lino (muffled the clanging), and almost took someone out when the snuck up behind me. My toes are probably only here today cause I was wearing steel toe cap doc martens.

ah well... college was such fun.

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Originally posted by seryn:

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And, is this bashing folks' heads about some kind of reaction to the bra size issues?

Clearly I'm out of the loop, eh?

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No, don't worry, the talk of bashing people in the head is a random aside about tilting in tournaments of the medieval kind -and aparently the mordern version done on a motorbike instead of a horse, jeeze, i miss all the fun.

you only have to keep up if you want to.


I cant see these photo's and gorramit I want to! (stamping feet is so much fun)
I've tried removing the bit at the end like you said, is there any other thing i'm missing? It's still reading it as an email address

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The motorcycles that was just a movie. We could never get insurance for that.

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Originally posted by seryn:
it sounds like the most fun you can have encased in metal...

how do you fight properly though in just aluminum? It does sound like a laugh, but i was always the more interested in just the making side of things, I don't have any real yearnings to spend my weekend up to my arse in mud and water, half deaf due to the continual blows to the brain pan and regularly coming into close proximity with the pointy end of someone elses pig-sticker.

Long bows sound good though, I knew someone once, sat on the ground and the bow against his feet, the arrow went through the bonnet of a bmw set up a hundred yards away and most of the way through a target behind it.

Jayne would have liked them.

Plus, less mud.

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The motorcycles that was just a movie. We could never get insurance for that.

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has anyone tried?


seriously though, I think i'm putting people off here,

If you want all of the pictures in my archive, though a lot of them are just shot of LOTR elf armour and the like, you are welcome, I could send you the book list as well, I just need somewhere to send the disc.




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Originally posted by seryn:
yes, i went and actually read the site properly, and found that out.

There are groups in this country that are 'authenticity mavens' real hardcore authentic, they spend months drilling and training, and the camps they set up function with out any modern amenities (though somehow sneaking off to the pub to have a full english breakfast is allowable)
theres a whole industry dedicated to making the armour and all of the other stuff exactly as it was, and then going out and 'testing' it, some of the injuries i've heard of put me off it for life, but they've learned incredible things about life back then and now - proved and dispelled theories about so many things.

but i think i'll stick to watching.




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Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
The film in question is George A Romero's Knight Riders starring a very young Ed Harris and a cast of unknowns and obscure character actors. Is it cheesy? See it for yourself and decide. I liked it when I first came out. I was crazy for motorcycles back then so I was surely biased. I promise if you don't expect too much you won't be dissappointed. I would say it's more a movie to be appreciated for it's novelty than it's attempts to win oscars. That approach worked when I finally saw Waterworld on dollar night. However I felt that I had been mugged and beaten after I saw Star Trek 5.

Scorpion Regent

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Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
Caveman 5 times? I am ashamed to admit that I saw Smokey and the Bandit more than twice. (Shudder)

Scorpion Regent

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Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
Don't be embarrased, M4P. We all had movies like that when we were little. I used to watch Little Monsters over and over and over. The one with Fred Savage (who I had a HUGE crush on when I was, like 10).

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny

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You sat next to Haken!?!? *swoon*

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I did try to go around and meet as many people as I could, but I was a bit busy, as I was staff and was running interference for Ash (XandlerLHarris, or shiny Shindig goddess who arranged the whole weekend.)

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That was a great night, though, wasn't it? I hope we'll do another one when we get our sequel!

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Scuba gear, inflatible pool toys, super soakers, and water soluable swimwear ...

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Originally posted by LightMeDark:
I'm envious of all of you that have met real living and breathing browncoats. I don't know if there is such a thing where I live.

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What's everyone doing for Christmas, anything cool?

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