Umm.. sure?
"His Imperial Majesty's Minister of Restraints and Leather" -LHF
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I saved it (originally posted by PumBumbler)
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Imagine if you will, a city of knights and knaves. Now you couldn't tell the knights from the knaves, but the knights built the city for the peasants. Some knights were found to be knaves, and others left the city to establish other cities where they felt other peasants could be found.
The peasants swore fealty to the knights in exchange for the peasants to live in the city. Now the town hall was where they all gathered to discuss the events of the day. Much discourse happened, and the knights proclaimed that all should be civil to one another. And for the most part, they were.
Now the city was growing, and many peasants came to live in the city. Some of the dwellings and structures in the city wore thin, and the knights and knaves worked mightily to accommodate them. Some peasants demanded that they be allowed to duel, and the knights accommodated them. Other peasants wished not to hear the sounds of fighting from the duelers and strife fell upon the land.
Lo, the town hall was filled with much discussion, some unctuous and full of dread. So the knights proclaimed that dueling was to be fought with different rules in order for more of the city to appreciate such combat, and yet they were rebuffed.
So the knights built a hall for soothsayers, who could tell tales and entertain the peasants who wished not to duel. Now some of the soothsayers told such tall tales that the knights were angered. Although they held their tongue due to some ancient rite known as a 'publishing blackout', when the time passed the knights let their anger be known.
The knights razed parts of the hall for soothsayers and proclaimed that no more could 'evil' tales be told. When soothsayer and peasant alike asked the knight what tales were 'evil', the Chief Knight replied that only his privy counsel of knights would be the arbiter of which tales were considered taboo, and thus spake no more.
Indeed, the Knight said that only the worst of soothsayers and their followers would be punished for their transgressions, and that even they would be examined carefully before being judged. Many peasants thought the Chief Knight to be magnanimous in his glory and wisdom, while others thought him to be a knave in disguise.
The town hall was abuzz with the Chief Knight's proclamation. Many peasants had heard many of the soothsayers tales, and some were afraid that they had heard tales that would see them punished. Some mewed in fear while others claimed the noble knights would not let so many peasants be punished, for the Chief Knight himself had said that only the most egregious of violators should be drawn and quartered.
Some peasants were emboldened by the knights and said that anyone who had even heard a whisper of an evil tale should be banished, setting the town hall abuzz even more.
So it was a cold evening indeed when the knights carted away many of the peasants, many without warning. Some of the peasants were innocent of any crime and yet they were taken away. Others were brought to the stockade while others were banished, never to be seen again.
Other peasants felt that the knights were too harsh, and went to the town hall to plead to the knights to spare the innocent. Their words fell on deaf ears. Indeed, some of the peasants who dared speak up against such injustice were summarily dismissed. The guards for the knights blocked the peasants from speaking to one another about such outrageous punishment. Did they fear that the peasants would revolt? No one knew for sure.
Many peasants were oblivious to such persecution, and they toiled as they were wont to do, since they did not go to the town hall. Others sided with the knights and said they could do no wrong. A few attempted to declare the Chief Knight a knave, and were struck down. A final proclamation was struck in the town hall to silence all discussion of changes to the hall of soothsayers.
So disheartened were they that many peasants started to leave the shining city. Others discussed which other cities they could journey to, and banded together to make the journey together. Some elected to stay. Some worked with others in secret to protest such ill treatment. The knights, realizing that they had made an error, began to rescind the banishment of the innocent, but the damage was done. Although those peasants received some compensation for their unjust punishment, many of the peasants who fought for them were disheartened, as the Chief Knight did not make any public proclamation that he made a mistake. Indeed, much of the population remained living in fear.
Should the Chief Knight have apologized to the populace to reassure them? Should the Chief Knight admit that many of the banished were not subject to a fair trial but summarily banished? Should the peasants continue to live in fear of hearing a wrong tale at the hall of soothsayers and then be summarily banished, or worse? Are peasants who supported the innocent and protested their case in the town hall wrong for helping their fellows?
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It wasn't clever, or all that inventive, the first time. It still isn't.
Let's hope this one goes away, too.
Oh Hush you
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It wasn't clever, or all that inventive, the first time. It still isn't.
Let's hope this one goes away, too.
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Didn't your mother say "If you don't have anything nice to say, S T F U?"
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Nope, my mother always told me, "Don't tolerate stupid people: they'll only breed."
Hence, I don't tolerate stupidity.
I found it amusing.
"His Imperial Majesty's Minister of Restraints and Leather" -LHF
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It would have been amusing, for me, had it been the first, or only, post about the whole 'fiasco'.
But it wasn't.
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It would have been amusing, for me, had it been the first, or only, post about the whole 'fiasco'.
But it wasn't.
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But the others were deleted. This is one of very few left. That doesn't count?
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Ok, you actually have a pretty good point there.
I'll concede.
Excellent. I also think it's a good story.
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The other question to ask is "why was it deleted?" As far as I can tell, there were no violations of the forum rules and I haven't received a notice that it did break any rules.
I think it was deleted as a wholesale wiping of everything related to the 'fiasco'.
this point is more or less proven in the Movie Idiocracy
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I believe they purged the forums yesterday Mrs. OSHA was saying the infinity Hami thread was wiped.
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I like the word 'fiasco'.
"His Imperial Majesty's Minister of Restraints and Leather" -LHF
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Me too.
Same here. Also I find the word boondoggle fun to say.
I'm also a fan of ne'er-do-well.
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I believe they purged the forums yesterday
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I think so as well. I kept seeing "new forum" pop up on various forums through the day yesterday. And the thread list for Justice is noticeably smaller.
"tarnation" gets my vote. it's originally a shortening of "eternal damnation."
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"tarnation" gets my vote. it's originally a shortening of "eternal damnation."
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It's a phrase, but i was always fond of "son of a biscuit"
Folksy!
The Marshmallow spectrum
Gud � Peeps
| Rice Krispy Treats
| Smores
Ebil - Circus Peanuts
Where oh where did my Little Story go, where oh where could it be??? Did the knaves finally take you as well from the town hall for your views on the halls of the Soothsayers?