Ok... had my first run-in with the maryland renaisance fest this year...next year im donning a white sheet, bringing a barbeque stove en four big mates and we are going to play the spanish inquisition..anyone with a comphy chair and the element of surprise may join... casting now for thr lead role of tokamada!
ps... bring faggots for burning, witches abound in alarming numbers.
2006-12-19 05:18:05 · 10 answers · asked by Zarathustra 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
eyvind..... your on somthing m8! put the Spliff down en take a few deep breaths... this is a comic question based on renaisance history en monty python.
2006-12-19 05:24:46 · update #1
There are lots of fortune tellers because it's cheaper and easier to sell a bogus fortune for $10 a pop instead of having to take the time and energy to make something for a faire and sell it for only double the cost.
As for your idea... take pictures for us to see later!
2006-12-19 06:07:57 · answer #1 · answered by spacejohn77 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because like any other company, most Ren Faires are run as a business. And the goal is to make money off the "mundanes". Now, quite a few of these mediums may be forthright, honest, and sincere about giving you the best reading they can, but their prices are usually influenced or set by the Faire Board of Directors. Also, a "reading" has no overhead cost or production time unlike a merchant selling material goods, so a medium has, at least on paper, the potential to make more money than a merchant. However, your average mundane does not usually make a habit of plunking down $10 for ephemera such as readings, but will plunk down $10 for a mid-afternoon soup boule or chicken leg and beverage. So, at your average "Faire" the two most prolific booths should be Food vendors and cheap souvenir style trinket sellers. If you want to move away from the "Faire" environment that targets the "marks", you could try any average SCA event. The difference is that you have a much higher saturation of professional item merchants who sell higher quality handmade goods, but you yourself have to dress in an attempt at pre-16th century clothing, because at a SCA event there are no tourists.
2006-12-19 15:06:13 · answer #2 · answered by Lord Bearclaw of Gryphon Woods 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe for the next time..
The witches will turn you into a frog.. wouldn't that be lovely.
This is just as outlandish as your rudeness towards men and witches.
Maybe we get some nicely dressed gentlemen together, to pound your head in to at least knock some sense into your immature ways..
Ha ha.. yeah nice joke.
2006-12-19 18:04:58 · answer #3 · answered by A Lady Dragon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As to the question - the Renaissance was considered a time of enlightenment and the last harrah of the gypsy and bard both know for sooth saying to earn a pittance.
2006-12-19 14:44:06 · answer #4 · answered by Walking on Sunshine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you wouldn't think that if we all had an average age of thirteen: ie AIDS incubation doesn't kill people before they get to reproduce, but it's everywhere cos incurable; like everyone's met the common cold, but it doesn't mutate to spread thro. biting insects. I am being cheerful. You should have seen me yesterday. Had to inject some more Windowlene.
2006-12-19 13:21:17 · answer #5 · answered by eyvind 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dude, it's a Renaissance fair. Cheesy extraordinaire, huzzah and wassail!
2006-12-19 14:58:25 · answer #6 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hey they gotta have something to do on the STAR TREK Convention off season.
2006-12-19 16:52:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably because they think that fortune tellers were all over the place back then. When in reality, there are probably more of them con-artists now.
2006-12-19 13:28:56 · answer #8 · answered by shdowops 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because Americans are the most gullible people on Earth? They have believed Bush's lies all this time!
2006-12-19 16:07:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Wow...it's just for fun..just chill!
2006-12-19 20:18:03 · answer #10 · answered by Barb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋