Re: Pennsic Sobriquets

[Dick Eney <dickeney@access.digex.net>]

Poster: Dick Eney <dickeney@access.digex.net>


On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Joyce A. Baldwin wrote:
> Poster: "Joyce A. Baldwin" <jocetta@ibm.net>
> 
> Let's see...was it Pennsic XII or XIII that was the Plague Year.  I missed
> that one (lucky me) but heard reports from friends who have _vivid_
> memories of it!  ("See Pennsic from the inside of your favorite Port-A-John!")

Definitely XIII.  Amazing symbolism there. :)  I was one of the very few
who did not get sick, either on the way, during, or after it.  I've heard
100% but I didn't and I think I met one other person who didn't.

> Lady Jocetta Thrushleigh
> 
> >Poster: Heather Swann <swannh@psi.com>
> >Hello, All!  I'm just sitting here at work trying to think of the names of
> >the various Pennsics.....can anyone help fill this in?  There have been so
> >many, they all run together in my memory....I know one of these is the one
> >during which the Dragon Ate the Moon....I think it was in '85, but I'm not
> >sure.....it was a cool astronomical event...

Was that the same year as the Harmonic Convergence and the Fall of the
Evil Empire?
> >I....
> >II...
> >III...
> >IV...Pennsic Puddle - this was also Pennsic Pour (rhymes with Four)
> >V....
> >VI... Pennsic Sprinkle (because not quite as bad as Pour/Puddle)
> >VII...
> >VIII...Pennsic Pour (nope; but this might have been the Puddle)
> >IX....
> >X.....
> >XI...
> >XII...
> >XIII...Taxman Cometh
> >XIV....
> >XV...Dragon Ate the Moon
> >XVI....
> >XVII....
> >XVIII....
> >XIX....
> >XX....
> >XXI.....
> >XXII....
> >XXIII...Mud War
> >XXIV.....Hot War
> >XXV....Cheap Gold Watch
> >XXVI...Lightning Pennsic (struck the tree opposite the Cooper's)

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