More Geekin'

Dumb things I saw people do at the OU Medieval Fair:

- Wear high heels to an event mostly on bare, recently watered ground.

- Wear wedge heels to an event that's mostly walking.

- Stop in front of a bridge and stand there.

- Stand in a long line to get a ridiculously expensive souvenir bottle of warm cream soda -- wait, that's a dumb thing I saw me do at the OU Medieval Fair.

- Wear every last bit of black clothing you own -- including a black hoodie, pulled up over the head -- on a sunshiny April day in Norman Oklahoma.

- Bring dogs that have never been to obedience school and wouldn't know the difference between "stay" and "spray" to an event with thousands of people and hundreds of other dogs.

- Bring a pet rabbit when all of those other people brought those dogs.

- Smoke. OK, that's dumb anywhere.

Cool things I saw people do at the OU Medieval Fair:

- Buy Tullamore, Istanpitta and Bilge Pumps CDs.

- Generously tip the bands and other performers.

- Be geeks together. Although the Fair draws thousands, it seems like a big part of the core is a group of that good ol' D&D crowd that gets to be the insiders instead of the outcasts for once. Kind of like how Star Trek fans are at their conventions.

- Wait courteously for the portable toilets.

- Watch performers be bawdy -- which is being dirty only using enough of your wits to make the audience think in order to get the joke. Bets the heck out of all the entertainment produced by the masters of the single entendre.