MEEBO Takes to the Road

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 07:32 PM

I'M BACK!!!!!!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 07:36 PM

Whhoooosssshhhhhh..........as we all breathe easier..........

Spaw

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 07:40 PM

Ok, wait a bit--million line post coming up!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 07:41 PM

Do it, boy, we're all waiting!!!

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Áine
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 07:52 PM

Well, I must admit to a little bit of worrying there too -- But, I'm glad that all is well and Mbo -- You'd better tell us EVERYTHING!!!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 08:06 PM

Well, how to start...how to start...

YE-YES! Today RULED!

I took off at 8:30am, with my Godpell in the tape player and on my way. I made a straight perfect shot from Kinston to the outskirts of Ragleigh--ELO pounding from the speakers--UH HUH! But then I took a wrong turn! Instead of following 70 into Raleigh, my going-stunod mind saw a sign that said Raleigh, this way! So, I ended up on Interstate 40, the one thing I DIDN'T want to do!

But all turned out well in the end, and I reached the faire at 11:30am.

Well...I could go on forever about all the neat stuff I saw, irish & scottish dancing, pipers, kilts, quarterstaff, magic.....and then...

MARIO! I spied him, with a mug in his hand, just as you said! He was great, but he roped me into being Wench Walked, and I of course had NO idea what that meant! Well, me and Mario went to do our own things...I bought a set of small pipes...

Later I got together with Mario...and I was subjected to the wench-walk! 25 ladies! And 25 sets of lipstick marks! So THERE Amos & Spaw! And not only do I have Mario to confirm it, I have HARD PHOTOHRAPHIC PROOF! Afterwards, we got some pics of me and Mario. Mario didn't get Wench-walked, but I suggested that he might enjoy being Possum walked!

Well we wrapped up the day together, trading tips on good insults to use, he sang me Don Meixner's song...The Mother's Kiss...beautiful!

I did SORT of put on a persona, as Mbo Ruadh. I talked to some portrayers in my Scottish brogue! Mario made me bow as Queen Elizabeth passed. Needless to say, I didn't do one very graciously. Afterwards I said "Mario, did I just do a half bow to the Queen of England?" He said Yes, and I said 'Well good 'cause that's ALL she deserves!" Needless to say, Mbo Ruadh is loyal to Queen Mary!

Oh man, then I made MORE wrong turns on the way back, but the Horslips and Elle's folk primer kept me company! So here I am! Ask questions if ye want--there's probably a million things I've forgotten already!

And as for GUEST, ain't none of that happening till I get the ring, period.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 08:10 PM

WOW WOW WOW and SUPER!!!Good for you, kiddo! See the real world isn't nearly as scary as you thought, and lots of fun besides, HUH?!

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 08:21 PM

Sho 'nuff!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 08:55 PM

So was Mario surprised? Sounds like a good time!!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 08:59 PM

I'll believe when I see it Mbo lad. Tee hee hee.

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 09:00 PM

No, actually he seemed as if he KNEW I would be there! ESP?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 09:17 PM

Too bad ye can't see GUEST, I haven't washed my face yet...

--Mbo

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: ceitagh
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 09:27 PM

Hey Meebs! I see you had a great time! But I warn you...its addictive. You'll wanna do it again, and again, and again...in other words, you're going to haveta get out more! (and visit all the rest of us sometime!)

pax,
Ceit

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 09:31 PM

Oh how my shins hurt! Too much walking and sitting! 3 1/3 hrs both ways! OOH! But it was worth it! Ceit, how far to Canada?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Pelrad
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 09:32 PM

Good for you, Mbo! Now that you know the way off campus, I foresee many more adventures for you. Glad you had fun today. :-)

Mario, thanks for not turning out to be an axe-murderer. Spaw would have had severe penance to do if a hair had been harmed on Mbo's head. Or anywhere else for that matter. ;-)

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 09:40 PM

3 1/2 hrs for 90 miles??? Boyo, you need to learn to drive the speed limit, 65mph at least! 90 miles should only take you an hour and a half, max! But, do it again! and FLY to Wyo., we'll pick you up in Denver !!!

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Hagbardr
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 09:40 PM

And if you meet a beautiful redhead named Brooke, send her my love. (Her birthday is Dec 23)

Hagbard, mka Eric Hafner

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: JenEllen
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 09:44 PM

So glad to have you back.....and molested *BSEG* Looks good on ya kid! Honored all to heck you took the tape with ya...you'll be a folkie in no time!!

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Hagbardr
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 09:47 PM

Hrmmm.... way late. Serves me right for posting before reading the entire thread. I apologise for this.... I mean, I'm really really sorry........ *sob* *sob*

Ok.... maybe I'm getting carried away. I apologise for that......

Hagbard

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: ceitagh
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 09:47 PM

Meebs, if you think 31/2 hrs in the car is bad, you'd better not try driving to Canada. From where you are to where I am is at least 10 hrs. Speeding. Take a plane...the local living museum has a folk festival in July. :-)

ceit

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 09:55 PM

Ooh ooh!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 09:58 PM

Oh how wonderful!!!!!

Can Max show the pix on the video feed???????

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: ceitagh
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 10:02 PM

Hee hee...we could have a lot of fun guessing what that last post of yours was responding to. ;-D
I'm choosing to believe tho that it's a show of enthusiasm at the thot of coming to the Upper Canada Village Folk Festival, in which case, I'm pleased.

ceit

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Big Mick
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 10:02 PM

The old Mick told ye, lad. Now save your jingle and come to the FSGW getaway weekend and spend time in the presence of some of the finest singers and players around. And bring some of the rest of these layabouts.

Big Mick

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 10:04 PM

Um..well, you see, the pictures have to be DEVELOPED first...and it was the beginning of the roll, so it might be a few months for all I know!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 10:05 PM

Well ceit, I don't know what Mbo's post meant but I meant the pix of the Ren Faire!!!! What did YOU mean?

~S~

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Kelida
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 10:25 PM

RenFests are always fun. We have a nice one very close to where I live in Cincinnati. Feel free to attend it. Especially if my band works out and we're performing there. . .(That's actually really exciting to think about.) If nothing else, I'll be in costume buying as many instruments as I can afford and still have gas money for the drive home.

Peace- Keli

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 10:40 PM

Man, how I want to be Mbo Ruadh! All I need is a kilt and a claymore...(NO TATTOOS!)

--Mbo

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 10:51 PM

I keep telling you, you are the Ruadh, all you have to to do is Believe It, and go there! (Mbo ain't gonna work for a first name, tho, you got any other ideas, that start with M?

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 10:54 PM

Well, if SOMEONE could translate Matthew for me!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Kelida
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 10:55 PM

Micheal?

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 11:02 PM

No, that's Michael. Muireadeach is kinda cool...

--Mbo

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Kelida
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 11:04 PM

Long though, and many people would have no idea how to pronounce that. So how about that Ohio RenFest?

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 11:19 PM

I don't know, Ohio's a long way! Raleigh's one thing, but I think I'd have to work up to Ohio!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Kelida
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 11:30 PM

Ohio is a nice place and Cincinnati is a nice (if a bit conservative) city. Besides, travel is great--people should experience everything they can while they have the chance.

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: JenEllen
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 11:40 PM

Kelida's right Mbo...Have to get you one of those Airstream trailers...you can go traveling in the official "Mudcat Suppository of Musical Knowledge"..to all the festivals and shows, roving reporter all of it back to us? Sounds like a damn fine plan.....

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 11:46 PM

Way to go, Mbo!! Sounds like a great time, and a great adventure for you too.

If there's bits of the day you can't remember, then you've done it right!

You said we could ask questions--I've got a couple for you--

You bought a set of pipes. Made by a Craft Guilder? Are they Panpipes?

Did they have craft demos? Since you're a craftsman/artist yourself, did you see anything you thought would be fun to do? In the SCA, at least, learning the guilds and crafts, as well as the protocol (YES, you bow to Queen Elizabeth, even if you ARE Mary's man--you could be tried for treason, you know) is half the fun of a persona.

Let's see--what kind of food did you have to eat? Anything strange to you? It's been a long time since I've participated in a Faire, but we always used to try to have at least one "authentic" dish for sale at the Inn.

Do you or your sister or your mom sew? If you really want to dress like the Ruadh, check out the Folkwear patterns at your local fabric store. Even Simplicity has great Celtic costumes in the Costume section, kilt and all.

And did you get any mundane names/phone numbers from the 25 assorted wenches?????

Lin

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: alison
Date: 26 Mar 00 - 12:43 AM

Matthew = Maitiu/... according to my book you can shorten it to Mait, Matin or Matha.

There you go.. take your pick

now admit it.. you're glad we pushed you into going aren't you????

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: jeffp
Date: 26 Mar 00 - 12:53 AM

Congratulations on your first Ren Faire, Mbo! Go for a great kilt. The hassle of pleating it will teach you patience. You haven't lived until you've tried to pleat a kilt on the floor with two cats attacking the cloth every chance they get. Glad you're home safe and sound.

jeffp

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 26 Mar 00 - 03:25 AM

Mbo--glad you had a great time. (I've been lurking, but decided not to share any advice, except now I'll say to Sorcha that a call home nowadays'll cost you a quarter AND a dime!).

The FSGW Getaway of which Big Mick speaks is going to be October 20-22, 2000, a little later this year than last. It's migrating Northward to Maryland, to a more comfortable venue, which means an extra couple of hours for Mbo, but a shorter ride for Big Mick, especially if he doesn't allow AAA to route him over the only hairpin turns in Ohio that I know of. (True story--and you all only assumed there were no mountain roads in Ohio!) The person with the shortest commute will actually be Max, in all probability!

But Mbo, there are others coming up from North Carolina and Florida and points South, and I'm sure they'll be happy to give you a ride. (We'll arrrange carpooling in the Fall.)

So put it on your calendar, and remember not to let your schooling get in the way of your education!

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Micca
Date: 26 Mar 00 - 05:09 AM

hey, Meebs, My SO belongs to a UK org. called the Institute for Draped Clothin that is into Ren faire and re-enactment costume stuff, they are on the Internet, if you need an addy. But more significantly for you she aked me to find something showing how to wear and put on the Breacan Feile (that is the big kilt as worn in Braveheart)Made by wrapping a large piece of tartan cloth about your person. I can dig out the URL of it if you want. or anyone else for that matter. Contact through the personals or e-mail.

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Kara
Date: 26 Mar 00 - 06:19 AM

Hey Meebo so glad you went . I was begining to think that you may be on of those people who only exist in CS.I ead this dreadfull storyin a teenage magazine about this girl who got cyber wed to a man she had never metin real life , then spent the next month 17hrs a day emailing him and having cybersex and everything and when she met him finally he turned out to be a computer nerd, but the wierd thing was that the girl was suprised.

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Callie
Date: 26 Mar 00 - 06:24 AM

I'm surprised SHE wasn't a computer nerd.

Gee - I haven't logged on all weekend and I've missed all this excitement! Good on you Meebo, and thanks for one of the best Cat threads ever!!

Callie

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Banjer
Date: 26 Mar 00 - 07:54 AM

Way to go, Meebo...Glad to see you took 'Spaws and others advice and went. I've not done any Ren Faire, but have had similar experiences in CW reenacting, such as dreading going to an event and then not wanting to come home because I found it to be so 'kewl'

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Caitrin
Date: 26 Mar 00 - 09:34 AM

Yay! Glad to hear it was fun!
(Though I don't approve of anyone being in allegiance to that insufferable twit Mary...Despite my half-Scottish status, I can't bring myself to like Mary at all. Elizabeth should've had her executed the FIRST time she made a bid at the English throne.)
See...Interstate isn't so scary, after all. (I do wonder how you managed to make that trip last 3 1/2 hours : ), but maybe you stopped for a big lunch.) Anyway, I'm glad you went and had a good time...I'm just sorry I couldn't join you guys. (My parents for some reason think scholarship applications are more important)
I should actually be able to go to the FSGW thingy! My aunt and uncle live in N. VA, so I could stay with them. I'll start planning now!

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Banjer
Date: 26 Mar 00 - 12:02 PM

Poor Caitrin, here's hoping you parents will come to realize that there are things to be learned outside of school as well....While I'll not knock the importance of a good education, many things can be learned at Ren Faires, CW reenactments and much can even be learned by just going somewhere (like a mall, for instance) and just observing the people!

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Áine
Date: 26 Mar 00 - 01:05 PM

Welcome home, Mbo! I'm glad that you went and even more glad that you returned to us safe and sound. Now I don't have to feel guilty about being one of the 'pushy' people. Whew, what a load off -- When Spaw started worrying about you, well, I started regretting what I'd said. But not now. You can still be a 'whiny titty baby'; but, only on alternate Tuesdays, in months with no 'R' in them.

-- Áine

(And don't anybody jump on me about the 'whiny titty baby' thing -- it's a long standing 'Catter joke and I only the best 'Catters are allowed in the club! *BG*)

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: Mbo
Date: 26 Mar 00 - 01:28 PM

Banjer, I was HUGELY into The Civil War back when I was 12 years old, my parents said if we weren't going to be moving to Japan in a few months, they would have got me into a Civil War reenactment group. I had this denim jacket that was my Dad's...jeans...a construction paper kepi, a canteen made from 2 pieplates, and a cartridge box and a rifle made from cardboard, I made all of it, and used to march around the yard feeling quite proud of myself....so I was weird!

Ugh, I would support Mary and her dim-bulb son even though they WERE weird, much more than I'd support that demon-seed Elizabeth and her pig scum old man. Actually, I'm kind of perplexed--since when does Renaissance mean England? I'd much rather be Italy, you know, the birthplace of the Renaissance...or France or Ireland. Much more fun.

As for the time of the trip, since it WAS my first time there, and I WAS going 65, for most of the trip anyway...there are places you have to drive down the center of the town, stopping at every traffic light. When leaving Raleigh, I sat at one intersection for 15 minutes waiting for a hole to get in. And for the last time, it was 130 miles! Not to mention all the wrong turns I made, and sometimes it's pretty hard to go 65 with a map curled over the front of the steering wheel.

As for wench phone numbers and names, no. None of them were my age.

And yes, driving on the interstate WAS scary! Give me my little highway 258 anyday! But then again, I wasn't on the interstate that long, kept trying to look for exits...I would guess that a longer trip would be easier....even without cruise control like I got.

--Mbo

--Mbo

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: DonMeixner
Date: 26 Mar 00 - 02:48 PM

Mbo,

I'm glad to hear that MMario is doing my song out and about. I am also pleased that you liked it.

The first Renn Faire I attended may be now, one of the best in the country. The Faire at Sterling New York, about 20 years ago. I try to go a couple times each year as I have friends who are either actors or crafters there. Try to hit more of them as you can.

After the fact advice is always easy but here is mine. Never take underware on a long trip. When you get there, stop at Wally World ( Thats Wal-Mart, Spaw.) and buy new and throw it away when you are done with it. Its only wasteful until you figure the space can be saved for fireworks, local whiskey, and odd bits of contraband. Also if you are in an accident, the nurses will be amazed, (amused?) at how clean your shorts are.

Don

Subject: RE: MEEBO Takes to the Road
From: JenEllen
Date: 26 Mar 00 - 02:55 PM

Agreed Don....My grandma does the same thing traveling home to England. Buys new shorts and leaves them at home, takes the old ones with her, and chucks them out post-wear to make room for bringing home contraband for the kids! Wise woman, but she also puts the Preparation H into YOUR suitcase incase she gets stopped in customs...so I don't exactly advocate travelling WITH her.....