You Know You're a True Rennie if...

[Merlin the Elder]

...you're putting stickpins in the Google map for all of the faires around the country that you think you might want to visit, checking the routes, mileage, and travel time to each. Then you compute the time and distance to your nearest friends/relatives for a possible crash-pad.

[angusmacinnes]

The day after one faire closes you book a trip to another one.

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

Your son in the fourth grade has to list what 4 things he wants to be in life and 2 of them are:

Ren performer
Blacksmith

[Capt Robertsgrave Thighbiter]

Your son in the fourth grade has to list what 4 things he wants to be in life and 2 of them are:

Ren performer
Blacksmith

Hot, beating on hard things all day, paid poorly, living by the sweat of your brow - why would he want to be a Ren performer?   

[Queen Bonnie]

 Faire season is over- but the garb stays out and at the ready- just in case!

[Ginette]

You can get in and get out of a port-a-pivie easier and faster in garb then you can in your mundane clothes. 

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

You're setting up a new patient at work, and the nurse says her name is Mrs. Warwick.

You enter all her information in the computer, and reading it back, you pronounce it     War-ick    without even thinking about it.

The nurse freaks out and says, "No, you forgot the second W.  It's War-wick."

And you can't help thinking, "What is she talking about?"




And then you have to explain to her you DID put in the second W.  It's just that you pronounce it the British way, due to your British husband. (I didn't even mention faire to her) 

[Dustin]

You're setting up a new patient at work, and the nurse says her name is Mrs. Warwick.

You enter all her information in the computer, and reading it back, you pronounce it     War-ick    without even thinking about it.

The nurse freaks out and says, "No, you forgot the second W.  It's War-wick."

And you can't help thinking, "What is she talking about?"




And then you have to explain to her you DID put in the second W.  It's just that you pronounce it the British way, due to your British husband. (I didn't even mention faire to her) 

I would pronounce it the same way, but that's mostly thanks to my Shakesperian acting.

[Dayna]

You REFUSE to pronounce the "C" in Boston Celtics as an "S".

[cowgrrl]

After a particularly stifling day at work (A/C on the fritz) you wonder if its possible to work a bodice chiller into a business casual outfit.

[Dinobabe]

If this is a post you would make!
Hope you don't mind me stealing it, Dayna!

Suffice it to say, as I was rattling off my list of what I own from Pendragon Costumers, I forgot several outfits and STILL qualified for the Dozen Discount.  I have enough middle-class garb to attend Bristol faire for 19 days and not repeat any piece if I chose to, and almost the same of noble garb.  This includes chemises, partlets, hats and other incidentals.  The only thing I would need to wear more than once is footwear and bloomers.

My suspicion is that between the weapons, the jewelry, the beads, pearls, gemstones and metallic embellishments, the many 10 yards of Italian Cotton Velvet and Silk and Brocade gowns, sleeves, skirts, forepanels and bodices, the leather garments, the five pair of 3 to 11 button custom decorated custom boots, the hats, the veils, the fans and pouches, the 50+ individually blown Venitian glass goblets and glasses, the 20+ elaborately embroidered partlets and chemises, and the stash of fabrics, beads, gems, pearls, etc. etc. etc. that are just waiting to be turned into more garb....

I could quite comfortably retire and live off the proceeds of the sale of the above, although right now the only way anyone is going to get any of it is to pry it out of my cold dead hands  :-)

[LadyFae]

If this is a post you would make!
Hope you don't mind me stealing it, Dayna!

Suffice it to say, as I was rattling off my list of what I own from Pendragon Costumers, I forgot several outfits and STILL qualified for the Dozen Discount.  I have enough middle-class garb to attend Bristol faire for 19 days and not repeat any piece if I chose to, and almost the same of noble garb.  This includes chemises, partlets, hats and other incidentals.  The only thing I would need to wear more than once is footwear and bloomers.

My suspicion is that between the weapons, the jewelry, the beads, pearls, gemstones and metallic embellishments, the many 10 yards of Italian Cotton Velvet and Silk and Brocade gowns, sleeves, skirts, forepanels and bodices, the leather garments, the five pair of 3 to 11 button custom decorated custom boots, the hats, the veils, the fans and pouches, the 50+ individually blown Venitian glass goblets and glasses, the 20+ elaborately embroidered partlets and chemises, and the stash of fabrics, beads, gems, pearls, etc. etc. etc. that are just waiting to be turned into more garb....

I could quite comfortably retire and live off the proceeds of the sale of the above, although right now the only way anyone is going to get any of it is to pry it out of my cold dead hands  :-)

LOL!!!!!!

[Rowan MacD]

You know you're a true rennie if you find yourself getting increasingly irritated at people who don't know the difference between a SATYR  and a CENTAUR. Seriously danes this is simple Greek mythology....they taught it to you in school........I found more children between the ages of 5 and 15 that knew what they were than I did grown adults..
   Shawn

LOL, you can thank Disneys' Hercules for that one.  I think they had both the species in there.  Hercules' trainer Phil was a Satyr (1/2 goat) and a minor character, Nessus, who is a Centaur (1/2 horse). 

[LadyStitch]

After a particularly stifling day at work (A/C on the fritz) you wonder if its possible to work a bodice chiller into a business casual outfit.

I've done it.    I made it look like a broach on the top I was wearing.  When some one asked me about it I told them what it was.  Funny enough they actually got one themself, only now they are taking it to outdoor events to keep cool.

[Nighthawk]

...you refer to your friends by the names of their personas because you don't know their real names!!  That would be me...