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In article <SOMMERFELD.93Jan17112959@unknown.apollo.hp.com> sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com (Bill Sommerfeld) writes:
>In article <rwb3kac@rpi.edu> habura@vccnw09.its.rpi.edu (Andrea Marie Habura) writes:
>
>   Surprises: I would prefer to see, at least at the Peerage level, awards
>   *not* be a surprise. 
>
>Actually, I think *no* award in the SCA should be a surprise... for
>one thing, the intended recipient may not *want* it (and the often
>associated responsibilities).  It's best to find this out *before* a
>scroll or whatever is commissioned and some artist burns some tens of
>hours working on it under time pressure..
>
>Any potential recipient should be warned at least an hour before court
>and given the opportunity to decline, or postpone, the award.
>
>[BTW, if anyone ever attempts to surprise me with an award, I'll
>flat-out refuse it..]

Which, in my opinion, is a good reason to suprize people.

The SCA would be the better if people ceased to think of awards
as being prizes, honours, and danglies, and began to think
of the 'awards' as what they are supposed to be: Agreements
with the crown that you will continue to enrich the realm.

A peerage is *not* a gift, at least in theory, it's a 
contract of service to your fellow members.

A few people *honestly* standing up in court and saying,
"Gosh, yer Maj, I'm honoured, but I hung up my swords last
week ,and have quit fighting so I *can't* fufill my duties."
would do much for this cause.

Unfortunately, if we don't suprize people, we lose this
opportunity.

Also, *I* would rather be suprized, if hell ever freezes
over and the King and Queen want to hang spurs on me...

Carolus Malvoix
Broken knuckle (not fighting related)
Testy
-- 
Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
gourd. --Unknown net.person