Ribbon awards (Was: Criteria: Aargh!)

[Dick Eney]

On Wed, 6 Sep 1995, Heather Rose Jones wrote:
> 
> (Of course, my stock response is always, "What sort of medieval practice 
> are you trying to emulate and how did _they_ handle the question?" In 
> this case, I mean the use of ribbon-badges at all, not the question of 
> whether it would bother anyone else.)
> 
Well, those who have read the poetic legend of the Land of Cockaigne will 
remember that ribbon-badges were used _there_ -- but in a context that I 
fear will not meet with general approval as something to imitate.  Though 
in that case the ladies of Cockaigne were wont to "pin a fresh ribbon to 
(their) sheets..." rather than wear it on their garb.

-- Master Vuong Manh
   sorry, indelicate jokes are In Period...