VTam: Really RFs and SCA events are just a bit of fun

I'm sure they are fun, because otherwise why would people do them. I think what was puzzling Ruth (and still puzzles me) is why people find them fun, or what kind of people find them fun, or whether we have the kind of people who find them fun in this country, or something.

I've never been to an sf con - not really enough of a fan - but if I did I'd be looking to meet authors & fellow fans, and maybe score some cheap books. Dressing up wouldn't come into it. Mind you, I'd been to the Rocky Horror Show and seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show three times before I even heard that there were people who went dressed as Frank. I thought it sounded like a thoroughly bad idea.

All in all, I think what I'm saying here is "Grown-Up Dressing-Up Parties" = "One Of Those American Things Which We Don't Really Get".

I have heard Society for Creative Anachronism enthusiasts describe their get-togethers as "the Middle Ages, not as they were, but as they should have been."

I second Don's raised eyebrow.