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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, Beth Reiten writes:
> > > Obviously, TLG uses the SCA/Rennie view of the middle ages: everybody who • wants to
> > > be can be a noble! Who wants to be a peasant?
> > >
> > > "Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!"
> >
> > One of my favorite (mis)quotes. "You can't just call yourself King because
> > some watery tart lobbed a sword at you! You have to win Crown, too!"
> >
> > James
> > http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
>
> "Listen-- strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a
> system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the
> masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. You can't expect to wield
> supreme executive power just 'cuz some wat'ry tart threw a sword at you! I
> mean, if I went 'round, sayin' I was an emperor just 'cuz some moistened bink
> had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"
>
> sorry to nitpick... I just couldn't resist :)
<grin> S'okay. If I dredged my memory, I could have pulled up the correct
one, too. What I did quote was a random person I heard last Clinton war
mocking politics. (SCAdian reference)
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
<follow-up set to off-topic.fun - SCA may be castle, but it's not Lego :) >
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