Author Topic: Kid poses in armor and sword for yearbook photo (Read 3523 times)

Balog · « **on:** January 22, 2007, 07:25:43 PM »

The SCA is a interesting group. Like a RenFair on steroids. When I was taking fencing we had a match against them. Not super skilled, but enthusiastic. Here's the link to their website. http://www.sca.org/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16725299/

Rhode Island official orders high school to allow photo in yearbook

Updated: 5:57 p.m. PT Jan 20, 2007
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rhode Island's education commissioner has ordered a high school to publish a yearbook photo showing a teenager with a sword.

The 17-year-old is a fan of the Middle Ages, so he wore chain mail and slung a prop sword over his shoulder for his senior portrait. Portsmouth High School officials rejected the picture, saying it violated their zero-tolerance policy on weapons.

The American Civil Liberties Union got involved. Its lawyers argued the school has allowed students to pose for more than a decade with props that show their interests, including musical instruments and horses.

A state education hearing officer added that past editions of the yearbook have had pictures of other items banned by school rules, including a corn-cob pipe, liquor bottles, a beer stein, toy guns, arrows and a knife.

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In this 2006 photo released by Heidi Farrington, her son, Portsmouth High School senior Patrick Agin, 17, is shown in his Society for Creative Anachronism costume in Portsmouth, R.I. Portsmouth High rejected the photo for use in the school yearbook.
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Headless Thompson Gunner · « **Reply #1 on:** January 22, 2007, 07:29:54 PM »

Aww... How come I never got to play with giant swords while I was in high school?

undecided

Matthew Carberry · « **Reply #2 on:** January 22, 2007, 07:49:57 PM »

You didn't have the eyebrows to pull it off.

mtnbkr · « **Reply #3 on:** January 23, 2007, 01:59:39 AM »

Hmm. My HS's mascot was a knight. I'm almost positive the costume included a sword.

Chris

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #4 on:** January 23, 2007, 02:15:00 AM »

I'm surprised the flagon didn't raise any ire.

thats a pretty bad picture

If he lost the Claymore and kept the hand on the other pommel,
He could have slipped right by the editor

Iain · « **Reply #5 on:** January 23, 2007, 02:23:38 AM »

Where's the rest of the claymore? It seems to be one of those evil SBS (short bladed swords).

Mabs2 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 23, 2007, 02:43:42 AM »

THAT'S what I'm missing from my belt.
A portable booze vessel.
*puts it on The List*

RadioFreeSeaLab · « **Reply #7 on:** January 23, 2007, 07:18:49 AM »

Everyone needs a portable booze vessel. How on earth did you forget that?

Matthew Carberry · « **Reply #8 on:** January 23, 2007, 08:27:10 AM »

The vessel with the pestle holds the pellet with the poison, the flagon with the dragon holds the brew which is true.

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #9 on:** January 23, 2007, 09:41:40 AM »

that is a funky Claymore

now that i have looked for the tip over the good knights left shoulder,
and see none, i assume its a four handed dirk

Matthew Carberry · « **Reply #10 on:** January 23, 2007, 09:48:29 AM »

It's that short for convenient carry. It becomes longer when he yells "Thunder! Thunder! Thundercats, YOOOOO!"

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #11 on:** January 23, 2007, 11:32:47 AM »

Quote from: carebear on January 23, 2007, 07:27:10 AM

The vessel with the pestle holds the pellet with the poison, the flagon with the dragon holds the brew which is true.

Isn't that from a Danny Kay movie?

I thought the metal cup was for making rabbit stew and such in the field.

Matthew Carberry · « **Reply #12 on:** January 23, 2007, 11:50:32 AM »

Quote from: fistful on January 23, 2007, 10:32:47 AM

Quote from: carebear on January 23, 2007, 07:27:10 AM

The vessel with the pestle holds the pellet with the poison, the flagon with the dragon holds the brew which is true.

Isn't that from a Danny Kay movie?

I thought the metal cup was for making rabbit stew and such in the field.

Danny Kaye it is, a very funny film.

"The Court Jester" as Hubert Hawkins...

Quote

Hawkins: I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?
Griselda: Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!
Hawkins: They *broke* the chalice from the palace?
Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.
Hawkins: A flagon...?
Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.
Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.
Griselda: Right.
Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
Griselda: No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Griselda: Just remember that.

crt360 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 23, 2007, 11:55:36 AM »

Quote from: carebear on January 23, 2007, 08:48:29 AM

It's that short for convenient carry. It becomes longer when he yells "Thunder! Thunder! Thundercats, YOOOOO!"

Thanks. I nearly spit coffee on my desk. laugh

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #14 on:** January 23, 2007, 12:17:51 PM »

The funny thing is that in daze of yore,
the guy in the picture would have been at best, a stable hand,
and today's Football team captain would have been the sword wielder.

That "sword" is way beyond his armament class.

Heck, its a little too big for a "Deathdealer"

crt360 · « **Reply #15 on:** January 23, 2007, 12:26:28 PM »

Harold, that very cool picture used to hang on the wall at Conan's Pizza. Your right about the kid being too small for the sword. That's probably why it's so short. They had to saw the end off so he could lift it.

Matthew Carberry · « **Reply #16 on:** January 23, 2007, 12:28:01 PM »

He'll grow into it.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 23, 2007, 03:02:45 PM »

Maybe it is just perspective, but that sword looks rediculously oversized. Maybe it is not a sword and just an anachronism.

Actually, the star football player would not be the knight. The knight would be the son of a landowner who trained since a child to fight. The son of a peasant may not even eat enough to grow that big.

Headless Thompson Gunner · « **Reply #18 on:** January 23, 2007, 03:14:46 PM »

Quote from: MechAg94 on January 23, 2007, 02:02:45 PM

Maybe it is just perspective, but that sword looks rediculously oversized. Maybe it is not a sword and just an anachronism.

The photo was taken with a wide angle lens. This causes items close to the camera, such as the pommel of the sword, to look comparatively much larger than items farther from the camera. Notice that his curled fingers appear about the same size in the photo as the exposed part of his face, yet in real life his fist can't possibly be that big.

It's a poorly made photograph. It does look ridiculous. It isn't the sword's fault, it's the photographer's.

Phyphor · « **Reply #19 on:** January 23, 2007, 05:26:16 PM »

Quote from: crt360 on January 23, 2007, 10:55:36 AM

Quote from: carebear on January 23, 2007, 08:48:29 AM

It's that short for convenient carry. It becomes longer when he yells "Thunder! Thunder! Thundercats, YOOOOO!"

Thanks. I nearly spit coffee on my desk. laugh

No kidding...ah the days of 80s cartoons.

A while back me and a few friends were doing that whole Ren faire gig, crusing around as Scottsmen, complete with accurate kilts and drinking horns. Said drinking horns were also filled with something any Scottsman would be proud to drink, needless to say. Anyway, my friend takes a big swig just as some little kid sees him, and the kid FREAKS.

"EWWW! HE'S DRINKING OUT OF A COW HORN!! EWWWWWW!!!!"
<friend> I used to use the whole skull, lad, but there were too many holes! Waste of good drink!

MechAg94 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 23, 2007, 05:39:06 PM »

or he would say "By the Power of Greyskull!" Then again, kids really shouldn't say such things.

Balog · « **Reply #21 on:** January 23, 2007, 06:30:00 PM »

This summer I'm one of the groomsmen in a traditional Scottish wedding. So once again I get to wear a kilt in public. Sweet.

Strings · « **Reply #22 on:** January 23, 2007, 06:44:41 PM »

"get" to wear a kilt in public? Unless required by work (or riding my bike), I'm almost always in a kilt (weather sometimes a factor too). I spent the entire weekend helping at a bridal show in kilt with a tux shirt and jacket...

cosine · « **Reply #23 on:** January 23, 2007, 06:55:51 PM »

Quote from: Hunter Rose on January 23, 2007, 05:44:41 PM

I spent the entire weekend helping at a bridal show in kilt with a tux shirt and jacket...

Okay, we need pics.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #24 on:** January 23, 2007, 07:05:40 PM »

No. No we do not.

If any pics are posted, cosine will pay. Heavily. shocked

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Author Topic: Kid poses in armor and sword for yearbook photo (Read 3523 times)

Strings