# My roomie is about to NOT get to Pennsic **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 25, 2012, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-is-about-to-not-get-to-pennsic/629384 "2012-07-25T21:59:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-is-about-to-not-get-to-pennsic/629384/101 "2012-07-28T16:51:16Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Do you mean “wouldn’t say”? :smack: Yeah, that one too! ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-is-about-to-not-get-to-pennsic/629384/102 "2012-07-28T18:18:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Damn! I wish mine did too now! Mine has an accent, but it sounds just like me when I talk. 😃 I have friends that went to Pennsic several times while I stayed home and guarded the house per **billfish678**. Never cost me anything, but one time as they left my best friend mentioned they may call for me to wire them bail money. I was never sure how serious (or not) he was. They always had a great time and brought back many pictures. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-is-about-to-not-get-to-pennsic/629384/103 "2012-07-28T18:30:10Z")
> [@digs](#): > > So, the moral to this whole thread is that even if you try to avoid hippy fairs, they’re going to mess you up, because a friend’s going to try to go to one and be unprepared and make bad choices. Maybe the barony I belong to is the exception, but beyond the occasional “could I borrow your lighter” we are a generally responsible bunch, homes, families, kids, etc. Out of 60 or so of us I think only 3-4 are unemployed. SCA and “hippy fair” are hardly synonymous. If anything the SCA is a far more conservative crowd I expected when I started and way more conservative than the ren fair crowd I have been exposed to. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-is-about-to-not-get-to-pennsic/629384/104 "2012-07-28T20:36:02Z")
> [@drachillix](#): > > Maybe the barony I belong to is the exception, but beyond the occasional “could I borrow your lighter” we are a generally responsible bunch, homes, families, kids, etc. Out of 60 or so of us I think only 3-4 are unemployed. SCA and “hippy fair” are hardly synonymous. If anything the SCA is a far more conservative crowd I expected when I started and way more conservative than the ren fair crowd I have been exposed to. Things have changed over the decades as the SCA has in effect “grown up”. Times were (back in say 1990) that a lot of SCA members were rather young and somewhat irresponsible. The SOP for Pennsic back in the day in my Barony was for most folks to have a crappy, just-out-of-college job that they would quit right before Pennsic. Of course they’d get back and have no money for rent, but hey, it was a shared house! Someone will make up the difference. These days you have places like Camelot in New England, which is a well run series of family dwellings. It must look like a cult from the outside but everyone inside is responsible for families, jobs, etc. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-is-about-to-not-get-to-pennsic/629384/105 "2012-07-28T20:57:23Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > I heard that blacksmithing is poised to make a big comeback and there are rumors of a wrought iron iPhone in the works. That would be [steampunk](https://www.google.com/search?q=steampunk+cell+phone&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=7VEUULyHJqWJ6wGCzoGYBA&sqi=2&ved=0CHgQsAQ&biw=1309&bih=735), not SCA. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-is-about-to-not-get-to-pennsic/629384.md?page=5)