Your favorite aspects of Renaissance Fairs?

[tigereye]

Poll question: Your favorite aspects of Renaissance Fairs?

Made our trip to the Renaissance Fair today. A good time was had by all. What do you like best about the fairs?

I like to stand there and eye all the swords. I held a very heavy Claymoor today. Way too heavy for me. The kid got a cool wooden sword.
The blue knight defeated the red and there was great rejoicing! :)

[sundog]

1. hard cider

:D

[tigereye]

2. oh,

I should have put in mead, or something. :hi:

[China_cat]

22. Drunk out of the leather mugs

my friends make.

[auntAgonist]

3. you forgot all of the above!

I just love being there, in the atmosphere of all the excitement. the Queen, the jousting, the swords, clothing .. i especially like the clothing you can buy ..

[tigereye]

4. good point!

it is very exciting. And seems like such a great place to spend a lot of time. There was wonderful clothing, my sister and my sister in law could barely drag themselves away from all of it.

[tigereye]

5. kick

[peekaloo]

6. Dragon Balls, get your Dragon Balls here.

Fresh from the serpent.

:silly:

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. I know all those words.

:shrug:

[tigereye]

26. all right!

:rofl:

[hyphenate]

8. The overall atmosphere

You're allowed to be part of a fantasy for a little while, where you can play act as much or as little as you want. If you have kids, you can teach them about the days before gunpowder and worse forms of death, and show them how people lived in that time before; you can get as dressed up as you want to and no one is going to laugh at you for looking different.

[jandrok]

9. Low bodices and chain mail bras

Gotta dig those. I used to go the Texas Ren Fair quite often back in my college days when I was in the Society for Creative Anachronisms. Good times. Parties like no other.

[tigereye]

27. yes

you get the sense that the partying skills of those folks are quite extensive....

[unrepuke]

57. HuzzaHHH!!!

[LaraMN]

10. I'd have to go for the guys with the boots, simply on principle.

But kilts would be a close second. Clothes were so much cooler in pretty much every other era.

[notadmblnd]

11. I like the little side shows

minstrels and jokers and magicians.

[Orsino]

12. The authentic Renaissance funnel cakes. n/t

[Richardo]

16. *snrk*

:rofl:

[XNASA]

13. I was once serenaded by two wenches at the Faire.....

They told a tale of how they were both astonished at the size of my, er, um....the beast beneath my codpiece, as it were.

My brother-in-law had to pay them to do it, but it was fun anyway.

[tigereye]

28. c'mon we wanna see pix of you wearing a codpiece, Rob

[Bridget Burke]

14. Another all of the above ....

Let's not forget the booths selling clothes. Once you get them home, you realize the only place you can wear them is on your return to the RenFest!

Used to go to the Texas RenFest a lot. Perhaps it's time for a return...

www.texrenfest.com/

[dolo amber]

15. $6 Amstel Light

:bounce:

[tigereye]

29. my sis in law had a Guinness

it tasted pretty good. I have no idea what the tariff was....

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. That it's legal to kill wenches

[Brewman_Jax]

18. The great costumes

which can be used throughout the year, esp. Halloween, and the huge tankards that hold a lot of...drink! :beer:

[seemunkee]

19. Chain mail bikinis

[MissHoneychurch]

20. Lurking_Argyle in sexy renaissance clothes

:loveya:

[tigereye]

31. yes the guys are way fun to look at!

[Brewman_Jax]

36. That really is me

on a rare cool day at the Georgia Renaissance Festival this past spring. I didn't have to wait 'til fall to wear the leather vest.

[MissHoneychurch]

37. you are going to dress up like that again

when????????

[Brewman_Jax]

39. That will have to wait for cooler weather

the tights and boots aren't too bad, but the leather needs cool weather. I'd like to go to the Carolina Renaissance Festival, but one brother lost his job, the other one just got one, so I don't know who will be available to go. :shrug:

[MissHoneychurch]

40. Here! Here!

*snipping excited with finger, jumping up and down*

[kath]

60. Oooohh, baby!

[JVS]

21. Cleavage

[WCGreen]

23. What he said....

[tigereye]

32. my sister complimented one amply endowed young lady

on her dress and the young lady said no one had actually noticed "her dress." ;)

[lildreamer316]

24. RENNIES!!

So who is going to faire soon? ME ME!!

[Beware the Beast Man]

25. Who needs the renaissance fair when I have my trusty Dio records!

[tigereye]

33. c'mon now Beast

pull out those tights! (and there were lots of guys wearing skulls hanging off their tunics, and stuff.)

[Beware the Beast Man]

34. Ever go up to Pennzic in Butler?

I have a friend who was in the SCA. He used to go every summer up to Cooper's Lake off I-79 for the festival.

[tigereye]

35. one of my son's friend's from school

goes with his parents every year. They are very involved in SCA.

[KG]

30. human chess!!!

[GOPisEvil]

38. Knight jump Queen...Rook jump Queen...Bishop jump Queen...

EVERYBODY JUMP THE QUEEN

:bounce:

[bliss_eternal]

43. ...ah, it's good to be King!

:evilgrin:

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[xmas74]

41. my brother is getting married at one in about 2 weeks.

KC RenFest.

[xmas74]

42. I get to walk around w/ my boobs ready to pop out

at any moment in one of those dresses and no one in my family calls me a sl*t for a change.

[WCGreen]

61. Cool.......

[xmas74]

67. the only good thing about it

[blindpig]

44. back in the old days

that is to say before AIDS, there were fetching wenches selling kisses for a dollar. Those were the days.

[BreweryYardRat]

45. Ironically...

I love medieval + Renaissance stuff, even not-so-accurate things like Faires, and I haven't been to one in years.

I'm going to go to the Bay Area RenFair year after next, though. Got a mail vest I need to finish making, and I lack any form of trousers...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

46. Mead. Game, set, and match.

[BreweryYardRat]

48. I've actually got a recipe for brewing your own...

Lemme know here if you want it and I'll send a message.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

49. Wow. Yeah I'd like that. Unlikely I'd ever make it, but my neighbor and

friend brews his own beer and does a damn good job, maybe he'd be interested sometime.

[redqueen]

47. Guys in kilts.

:)

[tigereye]

51. wow there is just something about 'em

I got to see guys in kilts 2 weekends in a row!

:hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

50. just love going. We go to Scarborough Faire every year

wander around, eat the cool food, check out the cool stuff for sale, enjoy the entertainment, drool over the brass artist's fountains, etc.

My daughter has a whole array of costumes and buys a season ticket every year.

[Susang]

52. So you went to the Renaissance Faire?

You're going to love this one then; Michael's latest obsession is making chainmail. I took him to his first Renaissance faire about a month ago and he decided he needed to learn how to make chainmail and leather armour. So now our house is full of metal rings and leathermaking tools.

I'm sure he'll be taking orders soon, so let me know if you want that Xena outfit I know you were lusting after. ;-)

[tigereye]

53. there was some really nice leather armor

in one booth. I like the leather bustiers with all the celtic designs and such - but I didn't see that guy this year.


that should be amusing for you at home! Well, let me know if he starts selling anything! :hi:

[Susang]

55. Time will tell

There have been other obsessions prior to this one. ;-)

He does seem to be getting the hang of making chainmail pretty quickly. I think I prefer the idea of metal rings laying around the house than a bunch of untreated leather. :-)

[BreweryYardRat]

58. Sorry to butt in...

A fellow mail-maker here, and out of hobbyist's curiousity, I have to ask: What metal is he using, what gauge, and what diameter?

[Susang]

59. Not sure

I think he's using something that's pretty cheap, since he's just started and is just learning how to do it. :hi:

[Blue-Jay]

54. I like making fun of the pale goth kids.

[tigereye]

65. you would!

[Seabiscuit]

56. Eating all that food while oggling the wenches!

[Initech]

62. What I've heard happens late at night at the Renaissance fair

Lots of weed, booze, and sex. I wish I could say that I was making this up, too!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

63. Taking acid and laughing my arse off

at all the people who are acting so seriously.

[WCGreen]

64. I knew a gypsy girl who read fortunes and made one....

Worked her way through University doing just that.....

I think the push up thingy's really helped her out, IF you get my drift.....

[tigereye]

66. but what could you be talking about?

;) Dressing up and doing various performances in Med. garb seems like a cool way to make some money, actually.

( can't believe this thread is still around.)

[WCGreen]

68. It was fun for her....

She traveled to about six or seven festivals in Ohio and Pennsylvania and made about six or seven grand....

She was "equipped" to make full use of the Medieval garb....

[LibertyLover]

69. Ren Faires

I love going to the MD Ren Faire. For dressing up and living sort of like in the past, we go to Pennsic each year (ask me about the new Henry the VIII pavilion we just bought LOL). By the end of the 2 weeks there even a real basic shower and toilet look like the height of sophistication. But for fun we go to the Ren Faire, sometimes in garb and sometimes not, and people watch and eat and just have fun. Mead, yum.