Freaking the mundanes

[Blue66669]

In Kentucky, a waitress at the restaraunt RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO THE FAIRE actually asked me if my YARN faire hair was my REAL hair!!!!

For christs sake! It's red and black, and down to my backside! IT'S YARN PEOPLE!!!!!!

[Dayna]

Spanish flagellents, yes, Thank You.  As for PC Education, don't let me get started, suffice it to say it's a good thing I never had children, as I believe if you tell someone Why something is bad, it's much likelier to stick than to simply say "Because I said so".

Dayna

[Richard de Graeme]

Teaching children to think and reason once more, rather than teaching a test. All children left behind!

[LadyElizabeth]

Well thanks guys for all the great education on the KKK and the templars!!  I will now be able to go hit on the cute templar guys at fair and have something intelligent to say about it...

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Well thanks guys for all the great education on the KKK and the templars!!  I will now be able to go hit on the cute templar guys at fair and have something intelligent to say about it...

M'lady, rest assured from the looks of it, that most "Templar Guys" will relish the challenge you will present them to the Templar Rule statute 71. 

[Sir William Marcus]

Allow me to introduce Templar Rule #71 for your reading M'Lady..

  Rule 71. Let Them Not Have Familiarity with Woman

We believe it to be a dangerous thing for any religious to look too much upon the face of a woman. For this reason none of you may presume to kiss a woman, be it widow, young girl, mother, sister, aunt or any other; and henceforth the knighthood of Jesus Christ should avoid at all cost the embraces of woman, by which men have perished many times, so that they may remain eternally before the face of God with a pure conscience and sure life

[Richard de Graeme]

Must be many templars walking with a limp, eh?

[LadyElizabeth]

Hehe....  Well, I'd "Hate" to be a temptress.... 

[Richard de Graeme]

As the Sun hates to shine.....dear Lady!

[Thorn of Tribe Ravenor]

I live in the middle of amish country, seriously all my neighbors are amish.  So I'm coming home from GLMF with some friends, and we stop for gas (I wonder why almost everyone stops for gas before or after the faire) we all get out and walk around a bit.  The owner was there and asked one of my friends if he was amish...then before he could answer asked why he was with a bunch of monks.  (Three of us were dressed as monks, one was dressed as a fairie, and the last was dressed like a barbarian [he was the one asked])  He just stared at the man and walked out.  About 30 seconds later he returned pulling an amish kid in behind him.  My friend points to the kid and says "amish," then pays the kid five bucks and turns to the owner again and says "are you daft?!"

[Sir William Marcus]

Hehe....  Well, I'd "Hate" to be a temptress.... 

Have fun M'Lady! 

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Hehe....  Well, I'd "Hate" to be a temptress.... 

A confession we hear?

[girlmacbeth]

My second faire ever which was okrf at muskogee my parents who are eternally mundane kept making cracks about my garb I had a silk headdess on which I had tied back kind of romanesque/movie ren maiden like I hadn't done tons of reserch yet hangs head but albeitto say they keep cally my arab not Arab but the other and I got some real wierded out looks when we stopped for gas but I just held my head high and said the closer we get to castleton  we see who laughs last which ended up me 

[jcbanner]

  About 30 seconds later he returned pulling an amish kid in behind him.  My friend points to the kid and says "amish," then pays the kid five bucks and turns to the owner again and says "are you daft?!"

Oh my God! lol, makes me what to bring an Amish family traveling to faire with me, just so I can show the difference in clothing between Amish and Rennie

[Rahne]

This is fun.

We have a new faire just getting started near us http://www.wildroserenfaire.net/index.html  shameless plug.
This year it ran weekends in October.  It is located in Columbus, Pa which is a rural town suburb of Corry which is just a small town.   Myself, my husband our 3 kids and a friend of ours know the people who run it and decide to help advertise by going to breakfast in garb at the local Perkins.

We walk in and the lady it the hostess station is probably in her 50's.  She says isn't a little early for a Halloween party.  So we explain where we are going and she still looks shell shocked.  They seat us in the back in the Garden room mostly out of sight.  Of course as we walk through everone is staring at the family of weirdos.  Me and the 3 kids are dressed as pirates, my husband and his friend more of the cavalier style.  My 10 year old daughter has on a full length hooded cloak.  (Hey it can be cold in north western PA in October) Well evidently they did not warn the poor waitress.  She is about 20 she comes around the corner to our table the look on her face was priceless.  It took her a full minute to recover and get our drink orders.  When she came back she was better and asked where we were going.  We explained about the faire and how it was just getting started and we wanted to advertise a little.  When we left we left her a decent tip as well as a free pass to the faire.  We went there at least one day every weekend while it was going on and had a pretty good reaction each time.  But it accomplished the goal.  It made people ask questions.  I think a few of them even stopped over.