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Has it occurred to you to just call the local university, which has to have a Latin professor somewhere, to ask him?

(And it's definitely not "vitae" -- the grammar is all wrong.)

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Very cool. (Sleeping on bruised hips -- interesting new experience?

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But I have to be a bit of a wet blanket, because I have to ask....

What is the provenance of that armour? I've never seen anything quite like it.

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Nobody here is against covered plastic. We are against football pads worn openly.

Hear, frikkin' hear.

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YOU have to rember I am new and don't understand a lot of what is going on.

All the more reason not to go around throwing epithets...

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What your saying (or the way a lot of folks are reading what your saying) is: If people show up in your area and you don't like what they are doing or how they are doing it, you tell them where they can go so that you will be happier with the SCA you want to have. never mind what they may or may no...

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The SCA banned crosses as a divide 20 years ago, but there was no problem with my crosses in the background.

No, they didn't. They bounce the use of quartered fields where it gave the impression of marshalling arms.

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I owe it all to Photoshop and Illustrator.

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That's plastic???

Thereby making my ancient point.

As I said elsewhere:

suh WEET.

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Okay, we have a new product on the Sengoku Daimyo online shop -- a big ol' color poster showing the different styles of lacing of Japanese armour. If you make Japanese armour, you might want to put one up in your shop. And your bedroom. And living room. Hey, that blank space on the wall above your t...

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It won't work. Your bordure is color on color. While a divided field can "violate" the color rule, a bordure is a charge and *cannot* violate the rule. Besides --- a solid gold or silver bordure would go a long way to "unifying" the whole arrangement.

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The visor is the *topmost* plate -- everything is under it (except for one helmet style -- etchu-school zunari -- where the top plate overlaps the top of the visor).

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Sekigahara. Or my favorite J. battle, Okehazama.

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What amazes me the most, is not that they'd find a few people willing to take their clothes off (though I'm not sure I'd expose all of my *ahem* soft bits around all that weaponry), but that the organizers allowed them to do it, and there's children in the audience. To be fair, in at least one phot...

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Personally, I love this picture:

http://www.keltentruppe.de/galerie04/di ... age02.html

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Well, considering that the kilt is a development of the great kilt (being all that frou-frou was conssidered unnecessary) and is a very modern garment... People who wear kilts in the SCA annoy the crap out of me. "National costume" does not equal "pre-17th century clothing." A kilt is just about as ...

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Mik, I just e-mailed you with patterns.

Let me know if they don't show up.

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My wife gave birth to our third daughter the day after Christmas. She is in the other room with said new daughter. I was laughing so hard as I read the ebay description that I woke the baby. I was just hit several times with a large mystery novel. My head hurts. Now THAT'S funny. And congrats on th...

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You ever see a dog chew rawhide? You know what happens when it gets wet?

That's why the Japanese lacquered their stuff. I don't think the Europeans had lacquer. They might have CB'ed it, but then what's the diff about using regular leather?

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Yes, but the good doctor didn't have a "the" in front of his name.

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Let me know when the applet is gone, and I'll go take a look.

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There are actually several different styles of suits in the terracotta army -- the armour types tend to break down by rank and occupation (e.g., charioteers have a specialized armour that focusses on protecting the arms as they're exposed and held out). You might want to look into getting a rather t...

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I got your e-mail on the fifth and replied -- it must have wandered. As to not getting e-mails since... well, unless you use the word "Viagra" in the title...

I just e-mailed you. Let me know if it doesn't make it.

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And it IS Eastern Orthodox Christmas now, so...

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Actually, that bottom one would make a very decent late-period Japanese "kawari kabuto" or "grotesque." I've seen a few like it.

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Uilleag, I hate you.

And I mean that in the most affectionate way.

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Effingham likey. If you can get by without a conflict on that lion (rampant lions on solid colors are VERY common historically speaking, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's one with a chief... but it's definitely worth a shot. Things are looser now than they used to be, and it just might get throu...

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"Azure semy de lys or, on a chief embattled argent three crosses flory sable." You can call it "six fleurs de lys" (3, 2, and 1 being the default arrangement) but it still won't pass. Essentially, you're differencing the arms of France Ancient -- Azure semy de lys or. That would never fly. If you ma...

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For what it is worth, I am with Effingham. The party per chevron works well, as opposed to the small per point pointy(?). Point pointed. That wouldn't work, as a point pointed is a variation on a base, which is a charge. Meaning, of course, that it sits on the field, and so is subject to the color-...

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Whoa! Go slow with the scissors there.

"Oops.... Um... honey? How do you feel about adopting?"

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You're moving away from good design. You're adding too many elements and too many colors. BTW, if you MUST stick something on top, it has to be either gold or silver: you can't put a color on a color. A divided field is allowed, as the colors are deemed to be butting against each other rather than o...

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Not really - as typically drawn, trees don't really "face" in a certain direction, as opposed to animals/beasts or some other kinds of charges. True, but the point is, the balance is secondary to the depiction/orientation of the charges. The default is that they face dexter -- that is, FORWARD as t...

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It probably won't bounce just because of that. Effingham may be right about period style, but I like the symmetry better - unless perhaps you switch the placement: what about two trees in chief, and one dolphin on the purple field? Remember: the medieval concept of symmetry and balance is not the s...

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No, facing the SAME DIRECTION. Not each other.

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Good period heraldic style would have the dolphins facing the same direction. That would be two charges (dolphin hauriant and a tree). Otherwise, it's THREE charges (dolphin hauriant, dolphin hauriant contorny, and a tree). Plus, economy of colors would be better style (and easier for you to reprodu...

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You reminded me of something I hadn't thought about in some 20 years. When I was younger, I was working the night shift at Seven-11; I was supposed to transfer to the night shift at another store in a few weeks, but it was in a part of town I didn't like, so I quit. Three weeks later, the night cler...

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