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    Default Renn faires. Love them or hate them?

    I'll admit the following guilty pleasure: Once year, every year, for the past 19 years, I head to Bristol, Wis., for the Renaissance Faire there. I started going with my X, before we had kids. We all still make the trek, as a family--although this will be the last summer for that tradition, as my eldest is headed to college.
    No, we do NOT dress up in period costume.

    I like the faire for people-watching primarily. Where else can you see a hot, 22-yearold girl in a chainmail bikini? (I'm pretty sure this isn't historically accurate battle gear. )

    So, do you like Renn. faires or hate them?

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    I absolutely love Rennaisance Fairs.One of my friends is a wench.
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    I Enjoy The One Upstate NY.(TUXEDO)

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    I love Ren Faires. I've been searching to find if one goes on around here. So far I haven't found anything for Memphis. May have to travel to other parts of TN, but it'll be worth it. In the Northeast, we had King Richard's Faire (Carver, Mass), which totally rocked year after year.

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    The one we typically go to is in Maryland. It's a lot of fun every year, and the mead flows freely!
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    The one in Los Angeles is going on right now. My favorite is the one up north in Santa Rosa area.

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    Gosh maybe I should go one of these days?

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    Here ya go,TM.

    http://www.faires.com/
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    Quote Originally Posted by TigersMilk
    Gosh maybe I should go one of these days?

    What goes on at one of these faires?
    Overpriced turkey leg and beer, followed later in the afternoon by funnel cake and maybe a bag of sweet, roasted nuts. But I pay for it every time--gladly!

    One of the real joys of these events is that the better faires feature little shops with handcrafts (leather goods, knives, chainmail bikinis...).

    And there are tons of performers--acrobats, dancers, jugglers. One of my favorites is the stockade, where a fast-talking insult comic (his head poking out of a wall, his insults delivered in a faux English accent) pisses off people who gamely try to hit him with tomatoes they buy 3 for $1.
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    I love funnel cake!!!
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    AHHH funnel cake with powder and strawberries and chocolate. I wanted one last week out of the blue.

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    I like them when they are freshly fried with a little grease in them.
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    I used to go to the one in upstate N.Y. {Sterling} years ago.Never got dressed up either. Always had alot of fun every time.Human Chess board was cool.They also had the naughty Shakespeare Theatre.They did Madame Ovary instead of Madame Bovary.lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by onlythebest
    I like them when they are freshly fried with a little grease in them.
    Oh, oh. I thought you were being metaphoric. Damn. You really means the pastry, huh?

    I associate funnel cake with a girl I knew in highschool (she was a senior; I was a junior). I had a massive crush on her. Anyhow, one warm summer night we walked around a carnival, sharing funnel cake, still hot and covered with powdered sugar. That was the closest I came to a hot treat with her. But when I have my annual funnel cake, it's nice to remember being a smitten teenager.

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    Oh - there are like three of them around me here in Texas. Texan love RenFests I have found out. And that is alright with me - I have been to the ones in Michigan, California, and a couple out there.

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    I've been to the one in Magnolia a few times. My favorite part is the Falconry. Plus my bellydance sisters are always perfoming at them, even though its not historically accurate either.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Katrine
    I've been to the one in Magnolia a few times. My favorite part is the Falconry. Plus my bellydance sisters are always perfoming at them, even though its not historically accurate either.......
    I like the Magnolia one because it has camping. Even though I am in a vinyl tent next to my vehicle, it still feels like a "festival of ole times." I am far from my concerns in both distance and time.

    I also like how people at the campground get together at the end of the night and mingle. It's like being with your own kind - you know? It is fun to see familiar faces from last year.

    I like to get into the drum circle and bop out some beats and see the people dance in their crazy drunken/stoned manner of "free-form" dance. I like beating the drum to the private fire breathing show that goes on at the camp ground.

    I don't like some of the musician politics that show up later in the night in the drum circle (play my beat - no play my beat - no play my beat - no more drumming until we get beer - fuck that I am here to drum not drink... .) It's funny how people outside the circle think we all play together as one unit LOL!!!

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    Love and adore them, been to them in PA, FL, MD and VA - though not the new VA one. It's like going to the mall for nerds. I get dressed up in typical dress and bodice, bf is working on pulling together a costume so's he can dress up as a necromancer, sometimes I take my sister who dresses as a Knight [yeah, we're the most concerned about historical accuracy]. The Florida one had this awesome thing where they set up a Red Cross van and if you donated blood you got to pay half-price admission.
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    OMG, I go to Bristol several times a year! Well, I have to, where else can I wear my wedding dress?? Hubby has a matching outfit, but I ma too tierd to scan in any more pics than I already had on hard drive! (Oh, I have a chain mail bikini, too!)
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    Luv 'em mostly. they are a lil' expensive, but fun. I always go early (just b/4 opening), & leave after an hr. or 2. I 'semi-costume' a theme-like blouse, braided hair, but shorts. I also make my own garlands for my hair w/fresh flowers & herbs (they blow away what is sold there, ppl raved about 'em). I luv to take a few hundred pics.


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    Love em! I used to go to the one in Tuxedo, NY every year. My adopted dad does em over in California.

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    Quote Originally Posted by onlythebest
    I absolutely love Rennaisance Fairs.One of my friends is a wench.
    I would have guessed most of your friends are wenches.

    I hate them, but I did wonder if the presence of Klingons at the one I went to was historically accurate.
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    love em love em. But I'm a festival whore.... give me food booths, beer, live music and performances, things to buy, and lots of people, and I'm all over it.

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    ^I totally hear ya, Cali! It's too bad you live so far away, we'd have an effin blast. I'm still looking for a Ren Faire here, or something like it. Velvet? HairGuitar? Do you two know of anything in Memphis?

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