[Ansteorra] Fast Hanse's Casa de Fortuna- OPEN

[Sir Lyonel]

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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