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- From: Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Tim)
- Sender: FredGate@ocitor.fidonet
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- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Fighting in crown:a thought
- Message-ID: <725261481.F00002@ocitor.fidonet>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:50:44
- Lines: 37
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- In a message to All, Colin Yuile wrote:
- CY> Reply-To: colin@ips.oz.au (Colin Yuile)
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- CY> nusbache@epas.utoronto.ca (Aryk Nusbacher) writes:
- >Why on earth would you want to open the possibility of becoming SCA
- >royalty to non-fighting couples?
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- CY> Why not? There are many people who would make great monarchs
- CY> but either don't fight or are not good fighters.
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- I hear a lot of people say this but I see no proof offered that the
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- persons speaking have any extraordinary expertise in distinguishing
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- "people who would make great monarchs" from "people who would make
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- crappy monarchs". Having seen serious surprises both ways once
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- the brass hits the head, I unwilling to lay any money on that
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- particular issue one way or another.
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- CY> Being able
- CY> to pound people harder than anyone else does not guarantee
- CY> any other skills. Would you have Mike Tyson for president?
- CY> (Yes! say the jocks :-) )
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- I suggest that Mike Tyson (or Muhammad Ali, for that matter) might not
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- have done any worse a job than any President I can think of since
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- Coolidge.
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- Let's go whole hog and require an MBA and prior management experience
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- to enter Crown...
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