From: mfactor@taronga.com (Marco Landin)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Why not pentacles:
Summary: Profound apologies to Senora Moreach,  I am but a semi-literate Spaniard d
	 with no knowledge of the ways of the Islands north of Europe... :)
Date: 27 Jul 92 01:13:18 GMT
Organization: Taronga Park BBS

In article <712128434.F00001@therose.pdx.com>, Suze.Hammond@f56.n105.z1.therose.pdx.com (Suze Hammond) writes:
> ML>  From: mfactor@taronga.com (Marco Landin)
> ML>  Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
> ML>  <1992Jul24.112356.15216@agora.uucp>
> ML>
> ML>     Milord doth have ...[etc]...
> 
> Well, ahem...not milord certainly! Senora to you sir!  :-)
	
	AY AY AY! I simply cannot believe I have placed not only my foot, but my
WHOLE LEG into my mouth this time!!  Estimada Senora, please accept my
humblest apologies for having confused you with a senor!  I can only make
the excuse that if I had been espeeking to you in person, I would
certainly have NOT made that insolent mistake.  I'm sure you have a frame
and manner of carrying yourself that escreeeeams woman!  What you have
suffered by my ignorance of the gender of your name I do not know, but
rest assuered, the guilt and pain of my meestake will hang on me like a
cross (a especial christian cross, made of very heavuy wood and being
very big) until the day of my demise...
	
	(apologetic Spaniard mode [OFF] )
> 
> [Much about symbols and Easter bunnies omitted...]
> 
> I *wish* that we could make it possible that any symbol *only* represented 
> what the bearer intended. We can't, sad though that is. (And gimme a break 
> with the bunnies! :-)
	
	Believe it or not, I've been flamed in private Email for suggesting an
Easter Bunny as a Pagan Charge!!!  Now, that was only meant as a
lighthearted jab at the seriousness that the conversation was adopting,
but apparently a pagan (Mind Ye, an UPTIGHT Pagan, possibly the only one
on Earth!!!  :>) drenched me in the fires of retaliation for that comment.
	
	I thought it was cute.
> 
> I am in a similar situation, in fact, here in An Tir, where the Nazis have 
> decided we have the Promised Land and they are going to take it from us...
> Local racist Skinheads have adopted a symbol very dear to my heart, the 
> Celtic cross (not the one in the PicDic, no feet on the bars..). To me it 
> represents the ancient Celtic connection between St. Columba and the 
> eventual emergence of modern Presbyterianism. But I'd be an ass to fly it 
> from anything but a church tower any more... I hate to think the kinds of 
> "friends" it would attract, much less the enemies... and what my neighbors 
> would believe my sympathies were!
	
	Earlier in this thread there was mention of the idea that the Pentagram
was a nice symbol and ACTUALLY meant positive things, but that a person
would be a fool to put on a shield or on his/her/its fron door.  Because
of the POPULAR inferrences, I assume.
	I happen to have a brass Pentacle adorning my front door.  It ward s  of
demons, and it has the added value of scaring away the Jehova's witmesses.
 (sic).  :)
> 
> Sad to say, symbols develop a life of their own sometimes.
	
	Yes, they do.  Odd thing, heh?


	A su servicio,
	Marcos maria Montenegro Del Diablo
	Swarthy Spanish type who's MOSTLY innofensive, he just
	doesn't really have a grasp on Gaelic name genders 
	(was that Gaelic?  I don't know)
	Barony of Stargate, where most peopel know better than I
	about a good deal of subjects...
	Ansteorra, glorious and fair, despite my nasty shortcomingsd
	and ceaseless self-flagellation.
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