Bewildering Balderdash

Welcome the Virginia Renaissance Faire ... we're moist!
~Chris Babcock

I can run faster scared than you can mad.
~A patron

Brian: I forgot to wash out my mug from last night and now I have mojito-flavored water.
Me: Is that a problem?
Brian: No

"If you think it's beautiful than so do I."
~A husband to his wife in the shop

"Tittie stare. That's my super power."
~Keegan

"It's not the fall that I mind ... it's the sudden stop."
~Dextre Tripp

"Swallow your pride and clap like a girl."
~Mary Prankster

"Are you channeling Puck?"
~daecabhir to one of our friends

daecabhir : (explaining to a patron that the potter also knits) "She doesn't idle well."
Patron: Then she should get her throttle checked."

"But clay is clean dirt!"
~Jana from Circus Stella

A hot, muggy day ... it's like being inside of a sheep but not in a good way.
~Rory the Dog

It said that revenge is a dish best served cold. It is also said that revenge is sweet. Revenge is ice cream!
~via Rory the Dog

I'm an outcast. That's why I'm here.
~Otter

Raku = Raccoon pottery
~drunk patron

I want to see that man drink out of a racoon!
~Rory the Dog

Pay me with your face money so I can feel like a stripper.
~Rory the Dog and myself

Throw it like you mean it, Princess.
~Mom to her daughter at the axe throw

Rory the Dog from VARF says that I have a firm and creamy bottom.

This was after he was checking out my new clay body.

From day two of 2015 VARF

• The great goat man = the bits under the kilt. As in when a man in the kilt bends over, you might see the great goat man. ~Rory the Dog


• Oh. You're one of those drinkers. ~a patron


• Wee nips = a safety mug


• I need a larger nip than that. ~a patron

In other news, this has been the best opening weekend for sales yet!

Insert some comment about how time flies here!

What follows is some odd random bits that needed to be written down somewhere.

Overheard at the Prancing Pony Pottery booth at VARF this year:

• Wife: "Honey! Throw an axe! Show me your love!"


• Husband: "Uh. I don't throw axes."






• Parent: "Come on throw an axe!"


• Teen: "No."


• Parent: "But it's a life experience!"

• Husband, after wife purchases a vase with dragonfly sprigs all over it: "Oh good. You got the one with little 'goddammits' all over it."

Overheard at the Prancing Pony Pottery booth at Celtic Fling this year:

• "They gave me more sass than a drunk gay man!"

• "Warm up your eyeballs ... they're going to be rolling again!"

The new LJ layout and interface is full of complete fail. There's too much extra junk stuffed in what they tried to make look like a cleaner layout. /sigh

The third week of VARF is done. We've had incredible weather thus far and with the exception of today, sales have been a wee bit over last year's. (And I do mean wee bit.) Today, however, we didn't break the $100 mark which, I am pretty certain, is the first time that that has happened at faire.

Ah well, this post is not about complaining ... there's already been a comment from my lovely daecabhir about me having cranky pants on this evening. You see the folks who think it's okay to piss all over the seat in a public toilet or priv, must be punished. That is a foul and nasty thing to leave for the next human who come along. Oh shoot, so maybe I did have my cranky pants on after all.

Well, then, it seems that it is ready for bed. Excellent well and good night.