Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:33:34 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: rehash of mundanes VS fans
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 06:48 PM 4/20/05 -0400, Ted White wrote:
>From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>

>> Markland and the SCA were two different things, though there was overlap.

>Did Markland have anything to do with the Maryland Medieval Militia?

Yes, because it wasn't the the "Maryland Medieval Militia", it was the
"Markland Medieval Mercenary Militia", sometimes known as "the quad-M".
"Mark" because no self-respecting patriarchy would name a place after a
woman.  Kind of sarcastic in a way. ;-)

It was also the Marklanders who got a king elected at the U of M for
student government head.  They ran King Tom the First on the Monarchist
ticket, with the motto, "Vote Monarchist and you'll never have to vote
again!".  They had a good advertising campaign too, with things like a big
Monarchist banner way up inside the gym where most ladders wouldn't reach
it, reading, "Spiderman votes Monarchist!" (had to pay a fine for that one
I hear).  What finally swung the election was King Tom promising to reduce
campus assaults by digging a moat around the university and filling it with
"fine imported lagers", so that rapists and other bad people would be too
drunk to do any harm by the time they got across it.  That got him the
votes of two fraternities...

Most Marklanders were also SF fans BTW... ;-)

-- Mike B.
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