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Re: Lego-Ideas.
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 4 Feb 2000 19:22:14 GMT
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Kevin Wilson (<389B0A61.B5C7C29C@compuserve.com>)
wrote at 17:20:33
> Tony P wrote:
> > > Pirates are a disreputable sort as well. Why do we have pirates?
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> > No they're not! Pirating (as a privateer) used to be a reputable
> > profession.
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> But if you called a privateer a pirate, you'd probably get a sword
> though your tripes. The two things where quite different.
It depends whose side you were on.
> Jonathan is
> right - the real pirates were a very nasty lot, just as bad as the
> Vikings. Peter Pan, Lego and Disney all take the same romanticised view
> of them. Given that, why not romanticised Vikings?
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> Kevin
Ahh.
Because Pirates have already been romanticised by others into friendly,
mostly harmless sailors and scallywags.
I don't think we're going to see sets with AK47s in the hands of
'freedom fighters for the republic' either :-)
That's not to say that I think the Vikings were disreputable: they
weren't. If someone were to say 'Viking' to me, I'd think 'sea and river
faring explorers, traders and settlers' just before thinking 'artists
and story tellers'.
But that's probably not what most people think, as you've already
admitted that you think the Vikings were bad :-)
--
Tony Priestman
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| "Tony Priestman" <Tony@you-rang.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:GirkWYAmbym4Ewr...n.co.uk... (...) I agree. I always thought of and read about Vikings in the same light you shined on this thread. Pirates on the other hand, have almost always been (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hey, some of my best friends are (SCA) Vikings! :-) Seriously, the Vikings are being "rehabilitated" by historians at the moment but I suspect that the pendulum is doing what it normally does and swinging too far before ending up somewhere in (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) But if you called a privateer a pirate, you'd probably get a sword though your tripes. The two things where quite different. Jonathan is right - the real pirates were a very nasty lot, just as bad as the Vikings. Peter Pan, Lego and Disney all (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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