SC - NRW Feast Recap - costing issue

[Decker, Terry D.]

    Just back from Seattle,  ah, the taste of good fresh fish!!   what is
that place on pier 49, Izars?  and for the stadium fee of $6.00, I had a
chance to sample  Mac & Jack's African Ale   -- is that available in
bottles?   didn't have a chance to quaff other micro-brews,  such a shame!

> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa wrote:
> >But it is in the nature of the human being to wonder if someone who has
something got it because of 'special privilege'. (Well, ok, I suppose that
there were some times and places where people didn't wonder, because the
only way to get things was because of special privilege.)<<

Anahita responded:
> And it isn't just people with disabilities. When someone gets a  Peerage,
there are always some folks who think, "They didn't get it  because they
deserved it, they just got it because they're a friend  of so-and-so."<

My pet peeve of awards, is when the Royal giving the award states:  " this
(very) good friend of mine . . . . "  because it gives the false implication
that  *only* friends of those on the Thrones will get awards.  Merit &
service is recognized irregardless of how chummy the recipient is with the
Royals.   Granted in as small a Kingdom as mine,  it is hard to not be given
a high award for merit & service  without being widely  known.

Caointiarn
 of Artemisia