Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:50:14 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: rehash of mundanes VS fans
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

King Tom later went on to become a MD State Trooper.  At one point Jesse
Jackson's son (or someone like that) went to visit UM, and Tom got assigned
to play chauffeur to him.  There we was the visiting big shot and kids are
coming up and genuflecting to his driver and calling him "Your
Majesty".  Must have been a bit of a slap in the face.  #snerk#

At 07:33 PM 4/20/2005, you wrote:
>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.
>--
>"Waiter, there's no fly in my soup!" -- Kermit

Candy

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