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From: Bjorn@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Bjorn)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: re: in-jokes
Date: 7 Dec 92 15:31:02 GMT

RW>  Bjornsborg is renowned for playing a game within the game --  
RW>  they love a good medieval in-joke on the rest of the kingdom.

RW>  By in-jokes, I am referring to things like all showing up as 
RW>  the Yuk tribe at the Scythian event in the Steppes or as feuding 
RW>  Italians (Brindisis & Gallos?) in the Queen's Tourney held in 
RW>  their Barony.

Several years ago we had an event called "De Scofozo 13th Night",
where everybody came as a member of the De Scofozo family.  You 
were required to "register" you De Scofozo persona with the autocrat
when you made your reservations.

Each De Scofozo alternate persona was chosen to be a joke of some
sort.  There was Trocadero the Swishbuckler, Sister Chastity the 
nun with a baby named Whino, Incognito with his Groucho false
glasses, nose and mustache, and many others.

I was Lorenzo Arabiano De Scofozo.  I wore an arab style kyfia, but
it was a mainly red paisley print and I held it on with a stripped
necktie; complete with double windsor knot.  I wore army boots, 
army fatigue uniform and a stripped bathrobe over it.

The conception for Lorenzo came after a friend of mine, who has a 
Norman persona, started telling how he had gotten his kyfia from 
a dead Arab during the crusades.  Since I was also wearing one, 
a fellow Altantian who is Arabic both mundanely and in the Society, 
ask me rather bitterly if I had taken mine from a dead Arab as well.  
Thinking quickly I assumed my best fake Italian accent and said 
"Ohha nooa, Ah got dis off a bath lady ena Roma!"  It seemed to 
defused the situation.

Lorenzo makes his living procuring women for the harem of the Sheik
of Araby.  The Sheik once told him that he wanted young Whino as an
addition to the harem.  Lorenzo replied that his neice was much to 
young, would the Sheik like Lorenzo's sister, Whino's mother Sister 
Chastity, or perhaps Mama De Scofozo.  No the Sheik insisted he wanted
Whino, to which Lorenzo replied, "Ah em sorry Sheik, but Ah can sell
no Whino before her time!"

Bjorn Bjorklund, Storvik, Atlantia (ducking rotten fruit and veggies)

 -- SPEED 1.00 [NR]: "Forge all day, dance all night!" - The Dancing Smith
From: Janos.der.Kleine@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Janos der Kleine)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Hmmm... my device submission is missing?
Date: 5 Dec 92 22:27:00 GMT

Greetings!

In hopes of checking into the missing, or lost submissions that were supposedly
in the August letter, that was supposed to be dealt with on the 25th of
October, is there anyone out there privy to the fate of my device.  The next
event I will be able to attend will be Sea Raids in Savanna, GA, and thus I am
out of touch with the 'heraldic' thing.

Someone out there must know what the status of my device is... please?

Written in the scriptorum, this 19th day remaining to the '92 shopping season.

Janos der Kleine
[Jonathan Hawes]
From: Matt.Drury@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Matt Drury)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Romano-Brit Costuming
Date: 7 Dec 92 12:14:02 GMT


 > court (by this Twelfth Night) that would have conceivably been
 > worn by gentlefolk in the British Isles between c. 450-600 c.e.

Groovy, milady. Checked with your local costumiers at present (Mistress Anna,
just shy of being Baroness of Darkwater, et al)?

Brian
(Who has some stories about Investiture you must hear)
From: Bob.Barnes@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Bob Barnes)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: We're here
Date: 12 Dec 92 13:33:02 GMT

Still active here at the origin line

I just deleted a lot of messages that had nothing to do with this conference,
don't know if it was on my end or somewhere up the chain. It was bad though.

Bob
From: Marv.Cotton@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Marv Cotton)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Underground-Abducted Kids
Date: 17 Dec 92 04:28:00 GMT

MO>Does anyone have any information on the Underground either run by Faye
MO>Yaeger or the one that split off from them.  Also,  do they have any
MO>ties to a similar Underground in Europe?  My former spouse abducted by
MO>4 year old daughter in March 1992 and is alleged to be with the
MO>Underground or starting one in the U.S. or Europe.  She used to be a
MO>Vice President in Telecommunications at Wells Fargo Bank in San
MO>Francisco and left with $150,000 Cash to start a branch of the
MO>Underground?  I held Joint Custody and was getting close to full
MO>because of some of the tactics she used to try and get custody.  Two
MO>Private Investigators linked to the Underground have assisted her,
MO>James Curtis of Oregon (his daughter was caught and is standing trial
MO>) and the other Hal Lipsett of San Francisco.  Please provide me any
MO>information you can for the benefit of my daughter.

  Martin, we do have info for you on this.  Someone will be calling you
  from the Search Center.  We can also be reached at 1-800-880-3463.
    Later, Marv

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From: Lady.Guinevere@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Lady Guinevere)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Your Name
Date: 8 Dec 92 07:07:00 GMT

CF>Good Day, M'Lady...

CF>Guinevere means "White" or "Pure" and was not uncommon as a
CF>name for the time (600-1300 or so A.D.) and was used in
CF>England.  The same name in the Langue Francais, is Genvieve
CF>(my lady's name) and also can mean the "White Woman" and
CF>may actually have been a title.


Thank you for your response.  I never knew that the name had such a
meaning.  She (Guinevere) I think was from England.  She was kinda
ordered to marry King Arthur at the time.  She was already in love with
Sir Lancelot at the time, but she couldn't stop the marriage as it was
from the high king to be done.  She was doomed from the start.

Guinevere
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From: David@fquest.FidoNet.Org (David)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Re:  Device checking
Date: 3 Dec 92 14:58:08 GMT

Hello to Berwyn from Bjalfi!

I saw your post on the Rialto last night, and was at Brachet meeting shortly
thereafter, so I checked your proposed device "Purpure, three acorns or
within a bordure or ermined purpure".  It cleared Papworth, the first and
second Combined Ordinaries, Woodward and Military.
Congrats!
From: Berwyn@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Berwyn)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: LOI Time Frame
Date: 5 Dec 92 22:19:02 GMT

How long does ii usually take from the time a submission is sent to the time
it appears in the kingdom Internal LoI?

I just got my copy of the November LoI (Midrealm), and it contained a name I
had mailed on July 12, Aelfgar ap Llewelyn.  I figured it must have been in
a LoI from befor ei got on the mailing list, and I had missed it.  The group
name which I had sent in on 6/28 (Elvrod, discussed to death here) was
returned in the October LoAR.

Just curious.

Berwyn
From: Linda.Davis@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Linda Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Poll Message
Date: 7 Dec 92 05:26:00 GMT

MC>  This is our annual poll message.  Since traffic on this echo seems to
MC>  have subsided I would like to know how many participants we have.
MC>  Also any suggestions or tips?
MC>    Marv Cotton, Co-Moderator

Hi Mary! Well I am here in Nova Scotia and have just started to get this
message base. I am looking forward to seeing more in it. I have just
started with FidoNet. If I can help with anything in this part of the
continent please ask..

Linda....

 ~ OLX 2.2 ~ And now, a brief musical interlude
From: Lee@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Lee)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: West Kingdom Ceremony Book
Date: 7 Dec 92 17:11:05 GMT

The Compleat West Kingdom Ceremony book is now available -- or will be at
Twelfth Night.  The price is $15 for the first printing only, since we
currently have a *real good* deal on printing that will go away at the end
of the year.  This includes postage.

The Book includes all Kingdom ceremonies and separate sections with all the
ceremonies of each of the four Principalities of the West (Mists, Cynagua,
Oertha, and Lochac).  It is over 250 pages (500 sides) long, and will be
delivered unbound but three-hole punched.

If you want to order a copy (since we are only printing 50 plus whatever
advance orders we get), contact Vesper, Hirsch von Henford, at Compuserve
(71043,3232) or Internet (71043.3232@compuserve.com) or phone (510) 215-5879
or mail (2308 Alva Avenue, El Cerrito CA 94530).  He will need a check
before the end of the year if you are an "advance order" -- if you aren't,
you take the chance that we will sell out at Twelfth Night.  (We expect that
the regular price will be at least $5.00 higher.)

If you have any questions, you can also ask me.

  -- eilis o'boirne
     who is posting this because Hirsch isn't on the Herald's List.
From: Stephen.Whitis@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Stephen Whitis)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Odious term "'bethan"
Date: 3 Dec 92 16:38:04 GMT

> After being in Aggieland for only a short while, my brother
> told me that many, many people there reduce all words to                 
> a bare one or two syllables, because they cannot handle                  
> words with more than two syllables. Something in the water?              

Common, no one in Aggieland drinks the water.  They all hang out at
the Dixie Chicken (and Dudley's) and drink nothing but beer.  You
try drinking beer all the time, you won't talk so good either.
Dathi apperently has a bit more sense than to spend all of his time
drinking beer in a bar full of rattlesnakes and drunk aggies.
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From: Marv.Cotton@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Marv Cotton)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Poll Message
Date: 9 Dec 92 01:53:00 GMT

RL>Hello Marv!

RL>Friday December 04 1992 21:01, Marv Cotton wrote to All:

RL> MC>   This is our annual poll message.  Since traffic on this echo seems
to
RL> MC>   have subsided I would like to know how many participants we have.

RL>I'm here...

RL> MC>   Also any suggestions or tips?

RL>$1,000 for each message posted?  <grin>

RL>Rick

Thanks Rick.  BTW, I'll send you an address where you can send the
money. (-:

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From: Tim.Of.Angle@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Tim Of Angle)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Re: Misc. nattering
Date: 4 Dec 92 11:26:10 GMT

DP>  ... depending on
 DP>  whether Tadhg's computer will do the R/OP fonts,...

 Tadhg's computer will do more fonts than your ROP ever dreamed of....
From: Alastair.Aylward@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Alastair Aylward)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Re: Dec Populous meeeting
Date: 5 Dec 92 21:13:00 GMT

In a message to All <12-05-92 09:26> Paul Goodnough wrote:

4From the quill of Cu Dub Mac Artuir , Greetings!
4  Be it known that the December populous meeting will be at
4Ryan's just done the road from Grady's on Bandera road.

Just what we need!  Another bloody restaurant!

4This is just for December. Plan on getting something, even
4if it is the salad bar or a drink. Same time as far as I
4know.

Does this mean YOUR buying or that they are going to 'kick out' those who can't
afford?[sigh]

4                        In service to Bjornsborg,   Cu


If this is for Bjornsborg why are we on the "Medieval Echo" and not the "local
SCA base?"  Enquiring mindswannaknow![grin]

Thank you for the update though!

                         In service to the Populace,  Alastair
From: Tony.Jordan@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Tony Jordan)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Song
Date: 9 Dec 92 00:25:56 GMT


        This is a song that is based on a Jody Call (Military Cadence) that I
heard at Airborne School a while ago.  The original title of the cadence is
"Old King Cole", and the song is based on the nursery rhyme of the same name.

        "Old King Finn"

Old King Finn was a merry old soul,
And a merry old soul was he.
He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl,
And he called for his Kinsmen three.

"Beer! Beer! Beer!" cried the Kinsmen.
        (Audience repeats this line)
"Merry men are we"
        (Audience repeats this line)
"But there's none so fair as they can compare,
 To the men of Anglesea"
        (Audience repeats this line)

Old King Finn was a merry old soul,
And a merry old soul was he.
He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl,
And he called for his Shindar three.

"Kill everybody twice!" said the Shindar.
        (Audience repeats this line)
"Beer! Beer! Beer!" cried the Kinsmen.
        (Audience repeats this line)
"Merry men are we."
        (Audience repeats this line)
"But there's none so fair as they can compare
 To the men of Anglesea."

        (The song builds in this manner until you run out of subjects
         to harrass or until you lose the train of thought.  I'll include
         the other verses so you can see how the song originally goes, but
         since they're mostly inside jokes you won't find them as funny as
         we do [esp. when we're drunk at 3am])

Daughters two
"We want a shindar warrior" said the daughters.

Wyndhavens three
"Let's all do our kin!" said the Wyndhavens

Wenches three
"You call that a prick?!" said the wenches.

Love-toys three
"Baa! Baa! Baa!" went the lovetoys.

Diamond-Dogs three
"Beans! Beans! Beans!" cried the Diamond-Dogs.

Tuchucks three
"Wah! Wah! Wah!" whined the Tuchucks.

                Jester of Anglesea.
From: Marv.Cotton@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Marv Cotton)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Re: Poll Message
Date: 9 Dec 92 01:43:00 GMT

CT>Hi Marv this is Charles Tedder, Havenhawks BBS, Millington, Tn.,
CT>(901) 873-0965.  One question  what program do you use to view the GIFS
CT>the one I have doesn't do to good a job.  I have Missing Child 1 - 14
CT>and the ones coming in through the Filebone.
CT>Talk to you later...
CT>                    ...Charles

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CT> * Origin: Havenhawks BBS  (901) 873-0965 (1:123/84)

  Great Charles.  I have distributed up to CHILD33 on the FILEBONE.
    Later, Marv

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From: Walt.Mateja@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Walt Mateja)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Latest Missing ?
Date: 10 Dec 92 15:43:00 GMT

MC> Walt, CHILD35.ZIP is the highest package distributed.  542.GIF,
 MC>David Gomez Morrow of Richardson, TX is the last GIF.
 MC>   CHILDMIS.ZIP is the file that now carries the listing of Missing
 MC>   Child GIFs and CHILDFND.ZIP is the list of found children.
 
         Thanks, I haven't called in a couple of weeks or so, and lose 
 track.
 
   (@)1992, "us"
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From: Lady.Guinevere@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Lady Guinevere)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Re: New to this stuff
Date: 6 Dec 92 22:05:36 GMT

Okay, I got your most gracious peice of mail.  I am not sure what it is but you
come off to be a nice, beautiful, smooth kind of person.  The word escapes me
at the moment.  Anyway, I have not joined any chapter.  I have not written to
the person that you gave me.  I have been busy and not had the time to make my
costume yet either.  Sorry to say all this, but it is getting that way around
here.  

Anyway back on target here.  (I must sound flighty right now)
I used to live in Florida.  funny how it is a small world sometimes.
How do I get in touch with someone who lives in this area (hopefully someone
out there is in this area and reading this), Centreville, Va, and can help me
from this end.

Aside from King Arthur lore and legend, I like to sew alot.  It is an expensive
hobby sometimes, but can save bucks when you don't have things in your
wardrobe.   I mostly like to sew Personalized baby blankets, with the childs
name and birthdate hand painted or embroidered right on the blanket.
The blankets are hand quilted the old fashioned way, tied with embroidery
floss.  In the winter i put Flannel on the back of the blanket that goes next
to the baby and use 3/4 in batting.  In the summer ii is smaller batting and
cotton type backing.    Anyway my other hobbies include, gardening, BBS'ing,
and reading.

Anything else you would like to know?
From: Beth.Appleton@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Beth Appleton)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Re: art or science?
Date: 8 Dec 92 00:32:06 GMT


 L> Taggart...who got me started in this mess). Haven't 
 L> been able to keep acronyms straight much beyond 
 L> heraldry...what's a MOA and a MOS?
 L>    Cecilia
 Well, out here we've got MOAS's -- Minister of Arts AND Sciences.  In 
 my original message (that I left out), I was explaining why there's 
 not a good split between the two.  Other kingdom's have two separate 
 offices, who then have to figure out what belongs to which officer. 
 Back in the dim days of Lloyd I (or was it II...) he initiated a change 
 so that Ansteorrans don't have to ask that question anymore.....
     Gwenllian Cwmystwyth, Steppes, Ansteorra
From: Bob.Houseman@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Bob Houseman)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Poll Message
Date: 11 Dec 92 23:36:00 GMT

A message from Marv Cotton on 12-08-92 to Bob Houseman included this:

MC> Are you on FIDO net or INTERNET?  I would like to get in touch with
MC>    you and discuss these things more.

Immediately, I'm on FidoNet, Marv, laboring to get my "RSVP" programming
"up-to-speed" to properly handle NetMail, which I understand handles
"public/private" msging.  Too, I've some revising of my telecom programming to
that requires updating for NetMai
l purposes.  I anticipate having that completed this weekend.

I look forward to further exchanges with you.

My regards,
Bob

P.S.  My auto-download this morning resulted in my acquiring some
194K+ of material in this vein:

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Message #5800 - Missing Children        (Echo) 
   Date: 12-02-92 22:43
   From: Berwyn
     To: Heralds
Replies: -> #5812
I tried posting this here a while back, but I think it dissapperaed, as I
never saw it show up.

I drew up a new device and its been hangin on my wall for a few days now.
Looks pretty good in my opinion, and on a 7" escutcheon is recognizeable the
lenght of my appartment, 30 ft.  By my reconning it is cleaar of SCA
conflict, so now all that remains is for someone with access to Papworth et
al to find a mundane conflict and break my heart.  The blazon:

Purpure, three acorns or within a bordure or ermined purpure.

Couldn't remember the default for theacorns, and its different for SCA and
Real Life, but I have the caps to chief.  They fit the escutcheon so much
better that way.

Thanks for all your help.

Berwyn
From: Bob.Houseman@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Bob Houseman)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Poll Message
Date: 6 Dec 92 18:24:04 GMT

A message from Marv Cotton on 12-04-92 to All included this:

MC> any suggestions or tips?

I share with you these thoughts re the use of on-hand technology to quickly
return home missing/abducted children.

I am intrigued by a concept consisting of these elements:

- Assumptions:
--missing/abducted children will be moved or moving via surface transportation
(i.e., by car);
--local authorities possess or can readily access fax equipment for
transmitting a locally created poster to a national "poster distribution"
800-number. Existence of the number can be promulgated through national law
enforcement organizations, such as a
ssociations of police chiefs, sheriffs, etc.;
--in the majority of instances, at the point of abduction there's some idea of
the abductor's destination; rapidly disseminating posters to points along the
route to and at the presumed destination (or destinations) will be productive
--there is a vast, untapped reservoir of youthful, enthusiastic computerists,
already possessing the software, hardware and skill to, on a voluntary basis,
very rapidly disseminate "wanted" posters - obtained at no cost to the caller,
from a too-be-creat
ed "poster" bulletin board service.  

- Needed Components:
--an corporate-sponsored, controlled-access 800-number bbs from which volunteer
computer enthusiasts download missing/abducted children posters to be 
[1] conveyed to area authorities, and 
[2] displayed at service stations in the area -- the area having been
"targeted" by caller ZIP or area code;
-- a corporate-sponsored reward fund to further stimulate calls to the poster
bbs and service station owner/operator participation.

Ideally, participating corporation(s) would be of the sort that a national
network consisting of "retailers" (e.g., gas station operators) and
"computerists" (my shorthand for computer enthusiasts) would, under the
auspices of the corporation(s), evolve.
  Consider, for example, having one or more corporations use it's extant
"communications capabilities" to signal selected "retailers" to "have your
local, volunteer 'computerist' call the 800-number."   

The expression "selected 'retailers'" refers to those geographically selected
by ZIP or area code, per the above-mentioned assumption re "route" and
"destination."

The "retailer" alerts the "computerist."  The "computerist" calls the
800-number and downloads a file consisting of a poster, graphic and text,
promptly printed out by the "computerist."  That poster is now available for
display at the "retailers" place 
of business.  Very likely, other local retailers in other forms of business
would willingly become involved - that is, display the poster, if for no reason
other than "public relations."

Certainly, variants of the scheme might work as well or better.

Discussion?

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From: Jerry.Hindle@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Jerry Hindle)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: Poll Message
Date: 7 Dec 92 23:45:24 GMT

Marv;

We are alive and carrying the echo as well as all currant GIF files available
to anyone at up to 16,800bps via HST

Jerry Hindle


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From: Bob.Houseman@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Bob Houseman)
Newsgroups: alt.missing-kids
Subject: 1STDAYS
Date: 6 Dec 92 00:59:06 GMT

A message from Marv Cotton on 12-03-92 to Mike Osborn included this:

MC>  Mike, could you move these messages to a different area?
MC>     Thanks,
MC>       Marv Cotton, Co-Moderator

Marv, it appears that the troops won't be calmed 'til they get their game
located.

I'm signalling you, Marv, as only in the past few days was this echo activated
at my request by the sysop of a nearby state university.  I've a sister in
Arizona who has an adult daughter missing and I couldn't help but wonder if
something might come of 
looking into the matter via this mode.

For that, I may be in the right "church," but the wrong "pew."  I have on my
desk a copy of a document that mentions Don Rittner, "...president of the
not-for-profit Computer Users for Social Responsibility (CUSR)...electronically
scanning the photos of 
more than 300 missing children in Child Find's files...."

You'll note the tag line of this msg to you refers to the HyperCard stack I've
scripted for communications in this mode.  The article I cited above alludes to
Don's work on a HyperCard stack "...that allows the viewer to [obtain]
information desired by c
licking buttons on the screen.

If you're associated with Don or know of his work, can you advise me re his
progress in that effort?  I've another concept I'd like to mull over with him
and am eager to contact him.

I'd appreciate any assist you might render in this regard.


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