Singles at Tewkesbury

[Chris, yclept John Barber]

If you’re happily paired off this may not apply to you, but please read on anyway…

Some of the posters in the Singles Threads are planning two Single Re-Enactors’ Rendezvous* at Tewkesbury. We’ll be assembling at the Sign of the Glove on a Pole at 9.00pm on Saturday night (late enough to get back from the executions), and another at 7.30 on Friday night, early enough for those who need to get kids to bed to attend for a while. There will be a Yellow Flag to show our intentions, and if we move somewhere else to get away from a touch of precipitation (which might happen, despite its rarity at Tewkesbury in recent years) we’ll leave a note of our destination and you’ll be able to find the Yellow Flag as a welcoming sign.

If you’re lucky enough not to be a Single Re-Enactor, please let your less fortunate fellows know that we’re doing it and invite them along on our behalf.

Much appreciated…


* Anyone know the plural of rendezvous?

(NB: this is nothing to do with the official organisation of the Festival - why add to their workload? - so please don't bother Pegs etc. If you have any questions, PM me.)

[Langley]

Hmm. Rendezvous would be plural already. Never heard of a rendstu though for a personal meeting with a single close friend, child or family member... Vous is the plural "you" but also used for the more formal address. That's what we get for stealing words from the French...

Ever thought about "Voulez vous coucher avec moi?" You would think if you were asking someone to sleep with you you would know them well enough to use the tu form wouldn't you? Then again...

[Chris, yclept John Barber]

I was thinking that although the 'vous' is a plural, it's a plural for the number of people "rendez'ing". One meeting-point and time is a rendez (singular?) for vous (plural).

Is there a plural for 'rendez'? Because 'rendezvouses' is so clumsy...

[Medicus Matt]

Ever thought about "Voulez vous coucher avec moi?" You would think if you were asking someone to sleep with you you would know them well enough to use the tu form wouldn't you? Then again...

There's never any harm in asking politely though, is there?

[gregory23b]

"please let your less fortunate fellows"

mmm, so you are assuming us married chaps are somehow MORE fortunate than you freewheelers, what ho!