Who will join me?

[herveus]

Howdy!

In the most recent Festival of Insufficient Heat (it wasn't a full up flame fest in my view) on the Rialto, Dennis O'Connor took to speaking of the SCA Internet Whitewash Squad. He meant this, of course, as pejorative, but I've updated my .sig to include "Proud member of the SCA Internet Whitewash Squad". After all, when someone goes about waving a brush-o-tar with glee and abandon, there is a need to clean up afterwards. Broken windows, and all that, you know.

He, playing the role of Phil, ran out of things to say, but not out of words to type, resorting to addressing me as "Mikey". I guess it was supposed to inflame me to intemperance. I think I resisted successfully. Of course, mentioning "skitakeldur" (from Geirr Bassi, meaning "one who shits in a keldur (well)", as allegorical for one who "poisons the well", rhetorically, seemed to evince a new paroxysm of elementary school playground name-calling. *sigh*

It's sad to see someone who used to be so skilled with words lose it like this.

yours,
Herveus

Proud member of the SCA Internet Whitewash Squad.

Comments

[mrw372435.livejournal.com]

How does one get to the Rialto, exactly? I've been hearing about it for years, but I don't actually know what or where it is.

[luscious-purple.livejournal.com]

I believe it's accessible at http://groups.google.com/group/rec.org.sca .

Before the Web and blogging, that Usenet newsgroup was where the online SCA action was. (Well, I guess it still is....)

[herveus.livejournal.com]

If you have a newsreader, you can peruse rec.org.sca, a Usenet newsgroup. Many web browsers offer some sort of news reader functionality, not to mention the excellent plain text news clients available if you have a shell account.