My own weird Asimov story; back at Lunacon '83, I was chatting in the lobby with two people who were both active in the SCA. One, who was male, I'd known from previous cons. The other, a woman, I'd just met that evening. They'd gone to college together and knew each other.
The male was cloving an orange, an SCA thing I'd never encountered before. So they explained it to me; if you gave it to someone of the appropriate gender, if that person accepted the orange they were supposed to remove one of the cloves stuck in the orange with their teeth and return it to the giver via a kiss.
Right as they finished the explanation, Asimov entered the lobby. The male and I looked at each other, looked at the cloved orange, looked at the female, and said in unison "Sic 'im!".
She took the orange and went up to him. Couldn't hear what was said, but it appeared she briefly explained the clove thing and then offered him the orange. He accepted it and returned a clove in the correct fashion. Admittedly, it did seem a more perfunctory kiss than at least I would've expected given his rep, but he was with a small group and left the lobby almost immediately afterwards, so he probably was distracted by heading somewhere.
Later on, I and said female did our own kissing. And I was told that I kissed better than Isaac Asimov.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-04-06 06:49 pm (UTC)The male was cloving an orange, an SCA thing I'd never encountered before. So they explained it to me; if you gave it to someone of the appropriate gender, if that person accepted the orange they were supposed to remove one of the cloves stuck in the orange with their teeth and return it to the giver via a kiss.
Right as they finished the explanation, Asimov entered the lobby. The male and I looked at each other, looked at the cloved orange, looked at the female, and said in unison "Sic 'im!".
She took the orange and went up to him. Couldn't hear what was said, but it appeared she briefly explained the clove thing and then offered him the orange. He accepted it and returned a clove in the correct fashion. Admittedly, it did seem a more perfunctory kiss than at least I would've expected given his rep, but he was with a small group and left the lobby almost immediately afterwards, so he probably was distracted by heading somewhere.
Later on, I and said female did our own kissing. And I was told that I kissed better than Isaac Asimov.