[Ansteorra] Fast Hanse's Casa de Fortuna- OPEN
Sir Lyonel
sirlyonel at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 21 19:42:55 PDT 2011
Cockfight
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On Oct 21, 2011, at 8:04 PM, Chris Zakes <dontivar at gmail.com> wrote:
> At 11:02 AM 10/21/2011, Sir D wrote:
>
>> Well, after 30 years or so, this prizefighting epidemic
>
>
> Sir, I am insulted. Calling the tournament to choose the next
> Queen's Champion a "prizefight" is like comparing Crown Tourney to a
> cock-fight. Within our period, a prize fight was a public
> demonstration of a student's skill and readiness to advance to the
> next rank within the London Masters of Defense. A few decade later,
> prize fighting was a public money-making spectacle more akin to the
> WWF than honorable combat. But neither practice bears any similarity
> to what will be happening on the field tomorrow before Her Royal
> Majesty, Amelot.
>
> As for it being an epidemic, well, rapier fighting has been likened
> to a disease before, by people of high rank and higher ignorance.
>
> Maybe this was meant as a joke, but if so, it was in *very* poor
> taste.
>
> -Tivar Moondragon
> Premier Member, Order of the White Scarf
> Champion to HRM Tessa
>
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