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- From: nusbache@epas.utoronto.ca (Aryk Nusbacher)
- Subject: Re: Fighting in crown: a thought
- Organization: University of Toronto - Office of the Provost
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:10:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.171020.15000@epas.toronto.edu>
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- Elwyn of Thornbury wrote:
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- DB> Lord Aryk Nusbacher, earlier in this discussion, asked, "Why on earth
- DB> would you want to open the possibility of becoming SCA royalty to
- DB> non-fighting couples?"
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- That's Second-Lieutenant the Lord Aryk Nusbacher, if you want to get
- me in real trouble with the law. Otherwise, you can call me Mr.
- We don't hold much with titles of nobility here in the Office of the
- Vice-President and Provost.
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- I am reminded of Sir Humphrey Appleby's redaction of the grades of the
- Order of St. Michael and St. George (the Civil Service's favourite knighthood):
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- C.M.G. Call Me God
- K.C.M.G. Kindly call me God
- G.C.M.G. God calls me God
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- DB> Perhaps, my lord, because some of us do not believe that the ability
- DB> to fight well and the ability to rule effectively are either
- DB> inherently or exclusively connected.
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- Neither are the surname Plantagenet and the ability to rule
- effectively inherently or exclusively connected (to the modern mind,
- anyway). That's the annoying thing about the Middle Ages, they were
- filled with unfair stuff like that.
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- Aryk Nusbacher
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- Who would vote for any political party that would let us have titles back!
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