Re: True SCA Story?

[Brenna <sunnie@exis.net>]

Poster: Brenna <sunnie@exis.net>



SCAVard@aol.com wrote:

> Poster: SCAVard@aol.com
>
> This has been floating around some of the other SCA lists for the last couple
> of days, so many may have seen this already.  It sounds like an urban legend,
> but even if not, it's a good read!
>
> -Vard

Yes, but aren't urban legends fun.  What about the one where the Russians were
sending spy planes over to get pics of the manuevers on one of our aircraft
carriers.  One of the officers ordered all the SCAdians onboard to muster ondeck
with all the heraldry and equipment they had with them and hold fighter practice.
The story goes that they had a great deal of fun listening to the conversations
the Russians had trying to figure what in the heck the Navy was training for this
time.

The other one that I like is the one where a fighter is walking down the road to
his car from practice with several weapons when a car tries to run him
down....once...twice...he dives aside both times.  As the car turns for the third
pass, he gets a new idea.  He digs in his heel and faces down the car as it
comes.  At just that right moment, he drives his weapon hilt first into the dirt
and dives.  The car runs it down...and costs it's own radiator.

But, my favorites have to be the ones about Cariodoc and the first Pennsic
War...which ironically, are the most believable of all of these legends.  At
least, they sound like something that might really have happened.

Brenna

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