After reading another “glad to find out who you really were” post in the Rieslingfeier thread, I realized that what we need is something to identify other Berserkers at large wine events. I have a friend, Polly Wright, who is know throughout the chess world, as the woman whose hat you never want to sit on because it’s covered with commemorative “lapel” pins from chess tournaments. Like Olympic pins, but for chess. A few times in the past, she has arranged to have custom pins made for me for events I was organizing. My idea is to have her arrange to have custom Berserker pins made that we could all wear, unobtrusively, at wine events to facilitate finding each other. We could, perhaps, use the Berserker man on a barrel logo if The Toddster would agree. Assume that it can be done for less than $10 per pin, and it would be the kind of this you could wear like an American Flag lapel pin, and assume you could get it at cost, would you be interested in getting a pin and wearing it as an identifying token. It will make it so much easier to find people to try out the secret Berserker handshake.
I will have them made with silver plated pins so you can use it instead of your nose ring. Or as an earring. And besides, don’t you wear a tuxedo when you perform at your real job?
Liotta has a Packers shirt to identify him as a Berserker, and the last time I wore a tuxedo was probably September! I don’t get to strum the big violin much anymore, no time with all my babysitting duties at home at on WB