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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Basic concept:<br>What do you think this idea called "college of bards" is (or ought to
<br>be)? In general terms at least, or specifically if you have specific<br>ideas.</blockquote>
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<div><strong><font face="trebuchet ms" color="#009900">I have started to answer you 4 different times now and backed up each time. My vague and rather difficult to convey idea is that (1) it will formally identify those who consider themselves to be a "bard" to others who also consider themselves to be "bards". (2) it will identify these persons as "bards" to the larger populace of the kingdom (3) it *might* attract more support from the larger community for the bardic community (4) it *might* provide some sort of training or help for those within the bardic community.
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Function:<br>Whatever that thing is, what do you think it would do for you --<br>specifically, if you can -- that you and the current company of bards
<br>either aren't able to do for themselves, or would be done better by a<br>college (whatever that is)? I.e., "What would you do with one if you<br>had one?"</blockquote>
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<div><strong><font face="trebuchet ms" color="#009900">Other than perhaps helping me identify someone as a bard from a distance that I haven't met before, I am not sure what a "college" might do for me in either the short or the long term.
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Form:<br>Whatever that thing is, how do you think it would it work? What form<br>do you think it would it have?
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<div><strong><font face="trebuchet ms" color="#009900">I haven't a clue.</font></strong></div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Benefit:<br>Whatever that thing is, why would you want one?</blockquote>
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<div><strong><font face="trebuchet ms" color="#009900">If it helped people find bards adn learn what bards do and then *use* the bards in a more period fashion, that might be a "good thing"</font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#009900">Annes</font></strong></div><br> </div>