The Three Things Meme

[hrj]

It's only fun if I can come up with three really oddball things -- and no fair coming up with things that involve Medieval Welsh.

Rules: Post 3 things you've done that you believe nobody else on your F-list has done.
Indulge in remorse if someone calls you out on a listed item.

1. I had the cops called on me for participating in a dog-fight ... as one of the dogs. (There is someone who could call me out on this one, but I don't believe she's on LJ, and I know she isn't on my F-list.)

2. I turned in a homework assignment written on a clay tablet in cuneiform. (It was an assignment for Hittite, so it wasn't an entirely random act.)

3. I made a bobbin-lace doily from linen thread that started out as flax seeds in my garden.

nah, not oddball enough; let's try again

3.1 I smuggled an ice-chest full of pelican skulls into the U.S. from Mexico with the collusion of a border guard.

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[ellid.livejournal.com]

3.1 I smuggled an ice-chest full of pelican skulls into the U.S. from Mexico with the collusion of a border guard.

Pelican skulls? Were they for scientific uses or someone's elevation?

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Because they were there. On the beach. And they were weird and wonderful. (The container was actually about half full skeletons and half skulls.) And I was into anatomy and dragged home roadkills of various sorts to make skeletal mounts.

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

Was that around the time you were making gloves out of rats?

[hrj.livejournal.com]

The pelicans were when I was in 8th grade (I think). The rat-skin gloves were college (when I was feeding the skinned rats to the redtails in rehab at U.C. Davis).

[ellid.livejournal.com]

That's really pretty cool.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

1. I was at that event ... pretty funny.
3.1 -- that's pretty far out in left field, I'll say!

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

I made a bobbin-lace doily from linen thread that started out as flax seeds in my garden.

"I knew the ropes were sound -- I grew the sisal myself."

[wulfsdottir.livejournal.com]

Pardon me while I mop up my keyboard.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

I hope that's because you remembered the context... **grin**

[wulfsdottir.livejournal.com]

My only regret is that I was not there to see the original culmination...

[semy-of-pearls.livejournal.com]

I was one of those dogs as well. :)

[baroness-eilis.livejournal.com]

...and Letitia and I were the ones explaining to the very confused police persons...

[scotica.livejournal.com]

Now you have to explain it to us!

[hrj.livejournal.com]

(Ok, darn, I guess I'll have to substitute item 3.0 in for item 1 ... unless and until some other doily-maker comes forward.)

So here's how it happened (although this is better told in person). It was a Beaconsgate Boar Hunt, held at a Boy Scout camp in El Cerrito -- a wooded area up in the hills, but surrounded by a residential area.

For the boar hunt, a heavy fighter armed with two maces plays the boar; the hunters are heavy fighters armed with spears. I don't know if it's always been consistent, but sometimes you have unarmored hounds -- the hounds can track the boar and signal its position to the hunters by baying. That year, I was one of the hounds. During a break between hunts, someone started throwing a stick for the hounds to chase and retrieve.

It was a beautiful stick. It was a glorious stick. And despite what all those other hounds thought, it was MY stick. There was an *ahem* altercation with regard to the stick's ownership ... completed entirely "in persona". We were evidently a bit more realistic-sounding than we expected because one of the neighbors reported the "dog fight" to the local police, who sent a patrol car around to check things out.

Fortunately, they had an expansive sense of humor, when all had been explained.

[scotica.livejournal.com]

1. I wanna hear this one...

3.0 Given the number of crafty SCA folk in your F-list, this is positively mundane

3.1 Much better -- but how did you get the guard to collude?