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Post by schlager7 on Jan 2, 2006 12:40:15 GMT -6
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Post by staciared2 on Jan 2, 2006 15:26:39 GMT -6
Well, all you need is fireworks and beer to make this a real bubba moment.
Thanks for the funny to start off the new fencing year LOL.
Stacia
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Post by vraptor on Jan 3, 2006 1:16:13 GMT -6
Do I hear Darwin giggling somwhere?
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Post by staciared2 on Jan 3, 2006 6:57:45 GMT -6
Maybe this could be nominated for an honorable mention for the Darwin Awards. To win, you actually have to take your genes permanently out of the pool but occasionally they have an honorable mention.... For those that have not read the Darwin's: www.darwinawards.comOh, and my husband is now emailing this clip to everyone he knows. He couldn't breath he laughed so hard. He even looked it up on Snopes because he thought it was doctored. I told him it was too ridiculous to be made up! Stacia
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Post by fox on Jan 3, 2006 12:22:38 GMT -6
Whaddya want for a $45 sword?
Wanna bet they didn't sell any more after THAT pitch?
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Post by Aldo N on Jan 3, 2006 21:53:55 GMT -6
"Odell" and his delivery/accent were the perfect capping touches!
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Post by staciared2 on Jan 4, 2006 9:54:53 GMT -6
I would imagine for insurance purposes none of those swords were shipped. If a customer had a similar accident then the shopping channel would be culpable. Also, we looked on the website for that channel and they weren't listed.
Oh! It wasn't just 1 sword for $45; it was 2 swords and an attractive stand! It is certainly more than you could bargain for LOL.
Stacia
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Post by schlager7 on Apr 21, 2006 8:05:36 GMT -6
The old link posted above was no longer working. ...but I found one that was! ;D Katana Accident
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Post by fightgal on May 29, 2006 11:00:08 GMT -6
?? what exactly happened? I can't tell on my PC, the resolution isn't that great.... did the tip break off and hit him in the face, or did he run into one on the floor, or what?? (we see a lot of bubbas with swords at TRF.... an all-too-familiar sight!)
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Post by vraptor on May 30, 2006 10:35:58 GMT -6
Speaking of armed bubbas at TRF, I bought a sword at Pirate's Treasure a few years back and before handing it over to me, he put a tie-wrap around the hilt and scabbard. I asked what it was for and he told me that the year before, two bubbas bought swords at TRF and then proceeded to get snockered. These two clowns then got mad at one another and drew steel. Since then, the vendors had to peace tie every weapon sold. The peace tie practice seems to have lapsed over the years, but considering some of the dim-bulbs I've seen there, it wouldn't surprise me to see it happen again.
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Post by fightgal on May 30, 2006 20:47:38 GMT -6
Hiya- considering the amount of booze and steel present, we've had suprisingly few actual incidents over the years. Still, I was always all for enforcing peace-ties.
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Post by vraptor on May 31, 2006 11:42:26 GMT -6
One of these days...
A bubba with three sheets to the wind is going to draw on somebody who actually knows how to use one of those things. That's going to get real ugly real fast.
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Post by Dan Gorman on May 31, 2006 23:16:05 GMT -6
Ugly on which side? The bubba only has to get lucky once. That's why I stick with the sport and leave the pretentions that sword fights are cool outside the movies to others.
Dan
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Post by fightgal on Jun 2, 2006 16:54:40 GMT -6
One of these days... A bubba with three sheets to the wind is going to draw on somebody who actually knows how to use one of those things. That's going to get real ugly real fast. You'd think so, but considering the number of bubbas and swords we have at renaissance faires, I've really never heard of any incidents like that in my own 12 years on cast. I only know of one situation where a patron jumped a player, barehanded, and the knifing that took place at TRF in 2004 happened in the parking lot between patrons and the weapon was a pocketknife. (of course, the way rumors go, the 'word on the vine' within hours was that it started with a drunk lady threatening her boyfriend with a sword in a shop.... I'd wager it started as someone saying "it was probably a...." and just went nutso from there. As the resident fight director, I was closely informed of everything included in the police report and such, and there wasn't even a boyfriend/girlfriend involved.) My theory is that if someone intends to fight (and win) they'll go with what they know.
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Post by vraptor on Jun 2, 2006 17:21:32 GMT -6
It's almost like the stories are urban legend, but urban legends don't make vendors peace-tie weapons. The only reason I relate the tale was that was what I was told by the people at TPT. I've no reason to disbelieve them. I also note that the policy regarding peace-tying weapons that are brought into TRF is spottily enforced. It makes me think that most of what we hear is, in fact, legend. I don't see the management of TRF going to lengths to solve a problem that isn't there.
I know about the stabbing in the parking field and that was apparantly unrelated to anything longer than a big swiss army knife. The local newspaper report that I read was specific about no "medieval" weapons being used in the incident.
To Dan: I agree. Swordfighting is ugly because it's purpose is ugly. Fencing, however, is pretty to watch and the better the fencers involved, the prettier it is. I have no pretensions about combat with edged weapons. But, our sport was derived from just such an "activity". Happily, what we have now is a wonderful exhibit of physical skill and movement combined with careful tactical analysis. You can almost see a fencer thinking about what he's going to do to an opponent next. With the best fencers, the thought process is lighning fast. With me, I sometimes think so much that my opponent can get a touch while I'm in deep cogitation.
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Post by LongBlade on Jun 2, 2006 20:38:56 GMT -6
We call that "thinnin' the herd" where I come from. Bubba done eliminated hisself from the gene pool!
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Post by fightgal on Jun 2, 2006 20:53:44 GMT -6
It's almost like the stories are urban legend, but urban legends don't make vendors peace-tie weapons. The only reason I relate the tale was that was what I was told by the people at TPT. I've no reason to disbelieve them. I also note that the policy regarding peace-tying weapons that are brought into TRF is spottily enforced. It makes me think that most of what we hear is, in fact, legend. I don't see the management of TRF going to lengths to solve a problem that isn't there. I can't disagree with you on that. Frankly, I brought it up often and was basically given the 'what can we do' excuse. I had no recourse to act other than as a member of the performance company, so I did my best to encourage enforcing it wherever I could. I think I was generally considered a bit over-reactive to such things, you know; "oh, there she goes, Miss 'safety first'", that sort of thing; meant lovingly, I'm sure. ::)I just figure, better safe than sorry. That being said, I also knew some vendors who were always very strict in their own enforcement, but you're right that it is not consistently addressed across the board, because there really have been very few incidents over the faire's long history to cause concern. As for me, I mainly didn't want having some stupid accident happen that we'd all regret, you know; somebody who's never held a sword (and doesn't realize just how long it is when held at arm's length) just swinging it to see how it feels, and impaling a four-year old who just walked up behind them, that kind of thing. Much like everybody else, I'm not as concerned about out-and-out attacks just because swords are around. Now that I think harder about it, the only instance in which I know a patron attacked a participant with a sword was one in which the attacker was an experienced swordsman (published, no less) and he cold-cocked a 17 year old kid with a waster to show just how good he was. The kid was sparring with anybody who came along to demonstrate how nice his folk's wooden wasters are, and he was getting touches in on this guy, who evidently didn't like it. When the kid told him he'd been studying with a colleague of mine, this guy proceeded to work himself into a froth, cursing my friend's name as 'just a ------- actor!!!", stepped in past the kid's guard, knocked him out and walked off. And there you go. In the end, anyway, swords don't kill people; people kill people.
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Post by kd5mdk on Jun 2, 2006 21:59:20 GMT -6
That's an interesting story.
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Post by schlager7 on Jun 9, 2006 7:52:34 GMT -6
You know, while I'm somewhat involved in my local sport-fencing community, I enjoy period fencing. I also attend renaissance faires about half the time in costume and half in contemporary attire. (At TRF that translates as: early October = warm = modern and late November = cooler = period attire ;D ) I have NEVER been bothered when folks want to peace-tie my steel. At TRF and other faires, it's just an accessory to my costume. While my wife and friends of mine have worked out rapier routines for our fencing demos for our club, at TRF my sword stays in its scabbard. It is just a costume piece and, frankly, if a drunken "bubba" comes at me with drawn steel... just call me the Gingerbread Man.
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Post by fightgal on Jun 9, 2006 11:26:40 GMT -6
Ummm.... why? cuz you're sweet and go good with milk? ;D
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Post by schlager7 on Jun 9, 2006 11:53:07 GMT -6
Ummm.... why? cuz you're sweet and go good with milk? ;D I feel I should not go there... Seriously, it was just a reference to an old children's story and the jingle the title character would recite... Run, run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me 'cause I'm the Gingerbread Man. If I have a worked up drunken bubba with pointy steel coming at me, well....
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Post by fightgal on Jun 10, 2006 9:11:12 GMT -6
ah, yes, that would be my best defense in any such situation as well... when I execute that move, I add the actor's battle cry: "Not in the face! Not in the face!"
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Post by schlager7 on Jun 10, 2006 10:09:29 GMT -6
ah, yes, that would be my best defense in any such situation as well... when I execute that move, I add the actor's battle cry: "Not in the face! Not in the face!" I can always spot another fan of the Tick...
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Post by vraptor on Jun 10, 2006 12:18:04 GMT -6
I always thought that Sir John Falstaff was always one of the more sensible characters that Ol' Willie came up with.
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Post by fightgal on Jun 11, 2006 15:40:26 GMT -6
ah, yes, that would be my best defense in any such situation as well... when I execute that move, I add the actor's battle cry: "Not in the face! Not in the face!" I can always spot another fan of the Tick... spotted like a leopard! SPOON!!!!
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