From:	Marty <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: Hostile Amish
Date:	Fri, 8 Nov 1996 13:00:22 +1000

> About an hour south of where I live there is an Amish community called
> Middlefield. A couple weeks ago I had to ride down there with my
> grandfather and help him pick up some stuff... Anyways, while down there,
> we stopped at a restaurant down there, and lo and behold, what did I see?
>
> An Amish Dwarf! He was about four feet tall, about three feet wide, and had
> the Amish beard and clothes... Pretty fuky looking... I mean, he didn't
> just look like a midget (also appologies for that term... But vertically
> challenged sounds wierd), he looked like your typical Fantasy/SR dwarf. He
> even had the wide nose that fantasy dwarves have...:)
>
> and that got me thinking... What would Amish Country be like in 205X?
>

Hell, considering the reputation that the Amish have for being
masochisitc workophiles, then they'd make the best Dwarf culture that
I've ever heard of.... Perhaps they *all* should ahve metahumanised.

*evil grin*

> They also dress odd... The men wear these dark suits most of the time with
> these black hats (similar to a fedora), and all where a beard cut in a
> specific style with no mustache... The women all where black or lite blue
> dresses and white bonnets...
>
Dwarf in suit and hat*grin*... I've got the image in my head already.

Bleach