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Matt Doernhoefer




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PostPosted: Fri 04 May, 2007 11:44 am    Post subject: Old diplomacy making a comeback         Quote

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/prince_w...nce_willem


For your entertainment value. Of course life would be a lot simpler if we could solve things this way, wouldn't it?
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Allen Andrews




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PostPosted: Fri 04 May, 2007 12:12 pm    Post subject:         Quote

Heh, I AM amused, thanks :)
" I would not snare even an orc with a falsehood. "

Faramir son of Denethor

Words to live by. (Yes, I know he's not a real person)
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Greyson Brown




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PostPosted: Fri 04 May, 2007 2:13 pm    Post subject:         Quote

That almost looks like an MRL gambesson he's wearing. :?:

-Grey

"So long as I can keep the path of honor I am well content."
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
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Martin Whalen





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PostPosted: Fri 04 May, 2007 6:43 pm    Post subject:         Quote

Heh, if only it were true. ;)

But then again, there would be scandals about steroids whenever nobles jousted. :\

Luceo Non Uro.
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Michael Clark




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PostPosted: Fri 04 May, 2007 6:50 pm    Post subject:         Quote

Life would be a hell of a lot easier if we all went back to swords.
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John Cooksey




Location: NW Ark
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PostPosted: Fri 04 May, 2007 8:44 pm    Post subject:         Quote

Michael Clark wrote:
Life would be a hell of a lot easier if we all went back to swords.


Heh.
It was never simple.
But it might have been more viscerally satisfying. :-)

I didn't surrender, but they took my horse and made him surrender.
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