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YES, THAT IS A GOOD MOTTO - WHY SHOULD ONE?

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And I love the ankh and the morpork!

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morpork?

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The owl. In the books, a morpork is an owl. And just now, Google just told me that there's an actual owl native to New Zealand called the morepork.

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Ah, the Southern Boobook (Ninox novaeseelandiae)

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Isn't that cool :-)

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Most absolutely badass coat of arms in history, I imagine.

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Aaaack - for a private citizen it costs over 4k pounds for a grant of arms - and for an American, one only need show a descent from a Crown subject, which would mean showing my lineage back before the revolution.

Too costly, I think.

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Yeah. You can design your own unofficial coat of arms for free!

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Yes, but there's a difference (pun intended) - making your own could mean you are taking someone else's as you don't have access to the research to prevent you from copying one accidentally.

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True, but I suspect that if you got REALLY creative, and had a sense of humor, it could be so unlikely as to be impossible.

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To me, outside of an SCA thing, it seems about as serious as Lady Pixie Moondrip.

And even the SCA requires major research within their own heraldric archives when granting arms.

Maybe I'll consider it a retirement gift to myself, down the line.

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I wasn't really thinking seriously. I was just thinking in terms of something fun, like when someone created a coat of arms for the Ankh-Morpork Knitters' Guild on Ravelry. Then again, I don't have much personal interest in actual heraldry, outside of nifty tidbits like the one I posted about.

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For me, it partly trying to get back something my family used to have (possibly): IFF, we are descended from the Pershall Baronet of Horsely Hall, Staffordshire, the family would be armigerous.

We cannot prove that descent on the pond jump.

However, we can trace back to our first ancestor on this shore, and i would love to reclaim even a portion of the possible family arms, to have and pass on to my children.

And, for those interested:
argent, a cross fleury sable; on a canton gules, a wolfhound's head proper, in teeth a marigold or

the crest is harder to describe, as I don't know how to describe the rolled up circlet of three colors on which it rested, but it was a wolfhound's head proper, in teeth a marigold or.

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OK, that's pretty cool! I guess my lack of personal interest is because I come from Canuck peasant stock and Armenian rug merchants, primarily, and have zero clue about what my English ancestors were like, so I don't think there are any arms in my history at all.

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well, the genealogists a few decades back argued we definitely came from that baronetcy, but some recent researchers have said "we can't prove it".

I am who I am, not because of being able to trace back to the 1600's, I know that.

But i like knowing I can, for me.

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That's pretty awesome. :)

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Join the SCA and get it for a minor processing fee ;-)

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No interest in LARPing.

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The SCA is not a LARP it's technically a Historical Hobbyist Group, in other words people who are interested in history and like to hang out with other people who are interested in history. Of course that doesn't account for those of a fighting persuasion but that's another story. LARPs are a whole other kettle of fish.

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According to what I have read about it, most of the people in the SCA are taking on roles and recreating the Middle Ages as they wish they would have been.

In many things i have read about the SCA, it reminds people - it's a game.

To an outsider - taking on a role, and playing a game, without dice and books and character sheets, is LARPing.

Just because the SCA looks down it's collective nose at LARPers (in true geek hierarchical fashion), doesn't make it any less of a live action role playing game.

Mind you, I consider Civil War re-enactors LARPers, too.

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:-) You see for me part of the game and the fun is recreating crafts and figuring out how people did things, I have friends who do some amazing research into Fatimid Culture, who build warp weighted looms from scratch and do the most excuisit caligraphy. There is a game aspect to the SCA but you would be doing it a disservice to dismiss it out of hand because of that. But then it's something I really enjoy myself. I suspect you might also enjoy the heavy fighting which can be amazingly exciting to watch and I assume participate in.

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