Term used by management of renaissance festivals in reference to the anachronistic or non-historical things that generally get promulgated (spread around) by persons who are regular attendees of said establishments or are booth workers (boothies). Derogatory term.
Rennie-isms include attendees or rennies dressed like Vikings, people in 18th century garb "aka pirate costumes", goths, scantily clad barbarian women wearing chainmail or leather bikinis, people wearing pagan symbols (aka 'you would have been considered a witch and burned at the stake, you dolt), palm-readings and tarot card booths--tolerated because most people expect to see it, but not really renaissance.
Scenario: Management staff standing around surveying a crowded area of the renaissance festival...
Manager #1: Ever since Pirates of the Caribbean came out, there are a ton of Jack Sparrows out here!
Manager #2: Yeah, apparently the renaissance was 200 years later than we learned in school...
Scenario: Management staff standing around surveying a crowded area of the renaissance festival...
Manager #1: Ever since Pirates of the Caribbean came out, there are a ton of Jack Sparrows out here!
Manager #2: Yeah, apparently the renaissance was 200 years later than we learned in school...
by YouKnowImRight5551212 June 6, 2010
Get the Rennie-ism mug.A term used by Renaissance festival performers and artisans to refer to the faire patrons who try to look/act authentic, but fail horribly.
They often wear clothing they made themselves -- which shows admirable effort -- but they often make terrible mistakes such as wearing a hoop skirt without a real skirt on top or a bodice with no boning. Men will sometimes try to pass a lady's pleated skirt off as a kilt.
Some wear clothing found in a costume shop and look as if a Disney movie or Tolkien novel threw up on them.
The worst of them use the renfaire as an excuse to dress unacceptably slutty. A buxom woman might wear an open-weave crocheted brassier. A man might wear pants slit all the way up the side (which would acceptable and historically accurate with another pair of pants underneath).
Worst of all, they will get disgustingly drunk and try to hit on everyone they see, creeping out performers and patrons alike.
Rennies are the ones who give Renaissance festivals bad reputations.
Used with disdain.
They often wear clothing they made themselves -- which shows admirable effort -- but they often make terrible mistakes such as wearing a hoop skirt without a real skirt on top or a bodice with no boning. Men will sometimes try to pass a lady's pleated skirt off as a kilt.
Some wear clothing found in a costume shop and look as if a Disney movie or Tolkien novel threw up on them.
The worst of them use the renfaire as an excuse to dress unacceptably slutty. A buxom woman might wear an open-weave crocheted brassier. A man might wear pants slit all the way up the side (which would acceptable and historically accurate with another pair of pants underneath).
Worst of all, they will get disgustingly drunk and try to hit on everyone they see, creeping out performers and patrons alike.
Rennies are the ones who give Renaissance festivals bad reputations.
Used with disdain.
by MacKay September 5, 2008
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Any individual to whom the following axioms apply:
1.) Not height/weight proportional (see fatty)
2.) Unable (or unwilling) to bathe themselves on a regular basis
3.) Live eight months out of the year in a pathetic, perverse, slug-like, and anti-social haze that involves playing copious amounts of fantasy role-playing games, whining about the lack of a current renaissance festival, and casting spells on those who do possess some semblance of social normality.
4.) Works for an ISP.
1.) Not height/weight proportional (see fatty)
2.) Unable (or unwilling) to bathe themselves on a regular basis
3.) Live eight months out of the year in a pathetic, perverse, slug-like, and anti-social haze that involves playing copious amounts of fantasy role-playing games, whining about the lack of a current renaissance festival, and casting spells on those who do possess some semblance of social normality.
4.) Works for an ISP.
VanCleve shot down the rennie in dial-up that invited him to her pagan love circle at the Renaissance Festival.
by Smith November 19, 2003
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"Hey, I just found this video on YouTube disproving evolution."
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"I've seen that one too, good example of Rennie's Law; he had to redefine evolution to disprove it."
by Robert Sandler January 2, 2008
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by RhoVII March 22, 2008
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Pronounced - "Re-niss-a-mah-pent"
Pronounced - "Re-niss-a-mah-pent"
I asked for the milk, but they passed it to everyone else before me.
Dude, that's some serious reniceamapence.
Yea, they were totally reniceamapent.
Dude, that's some serious reniceamapence.
Yea, they were totally reniceamapent.
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