Xithras
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Mon Nov-03-03 08:24 PM
Response to Original message |
|
FYI, my dad is an amateur blacksmith (he built his own forge on his property complete with manual bellows) who takes great joy in making swords and weapons the "old fashioned way", and then sells them at Ren faires to collectors (if anyone here has ever seen a Hilforge sword, it was made by him). I was with him two years ago when he was giving an impromptu lesson on smithing basics at a faire and bound several iron strips into a fagot and put it into the forge to heat it up. He was immediately verbally assaulted by about 1/3'rd of the people in the tent for calling it a 'fagot' and several went to the faire authorities requesting that they revoke his booth rights and toss him out. Luckily, the faire organizers were a little more historically literate and knew what a fagot really was.
People just hear the word and assume that you mean something bad by it :thumbsdown:
|
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread