No Elves

[rmhowe <magnusm@ncsu.edu>]

Poster: rmhowe <magnusm@ncsu.edu>

Subject: [gdh] Hurray! A Filk-Off! :-)
   Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 22:12:53 -0500
   From: "Thomas R. King" <todric@raex.com>
     To: gdh

(Betsy of Pike, etc.) (All rights reversed, use no hooks, this end
up, caution: radioactive.)

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        I'll sing of a place out in Western P.A.
        Each year there's a war there, or else it's a play.
        Where Doctors and Lawyers are just not themselves
        There's Germans, and Frenchmen,
        But there are no Elves.

                There's Vikings in Nikes and Celts with TV's
                And Maidens with make-up, and no one has fleas
                There's re-frigerators with cold beer on shelves
                And golfcarts with headlights, but there are no Elves.

        The Elves came a-calling one bright sunny day
        The SCA-folk objected, and chased them away.
        In wonder, the Elven-folk asked of themselves,
        "There's Celts with computers, but they don't want Elves?"

        "We heard this was History, brought back to life.
        "We thought we'd be welcomed here, `midst all this strife.
        "Twas Magic and Charm that we brought to the night,
        "But they said if they caught us they'd ban us from Site.

        And so all the Elf-folk were driven away
        From Pennsic and thereby the Whole SCA
        And as they departed, they heard Pennsic shout:
        "Fantasy just isn't what we're about!"
        
                There's Vikings in Nikes and Celts with TV's
                And Maidens with make-up, and no one has fleas
                There's re-frigerators with cold beer on shelves
                And golfcarts with headlights,
                But there are no Elves.
        
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Forwarded with permission from Master Todric Koenig, GDH

Magnus, no, not ever an elf. :)
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