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Ya’ll better bow to King Joel…

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  1. jtstromsburg

    jtstromsburg

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    Annual Midsomer Swedish Festival is this weekend in our little town of Stromsburg. Welp, I was crowned “King” so I expect a little more respect from all of you’s

    basically means I “get” to be in a few parades this summer and “get” to be at several community events throughout the year.
     

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  2. brenndatomu

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    Is that your royal family there your highness?
    (I know its not your real family...kids are older IIRC)
     
  3. jtstromsburg

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    My “Queen” happens to be a friend and her husband is my mechanic. Kids are our attendants. Yup, my kids are almost 19, 16, and youngest will be 10 in a couple weeks.
     
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    I don't believe a word of it - a king and a queen in shorts?! Sure...
     
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    Fear not ole King, you have my respect.
     
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    So.............we now have a King Joel? And a King Joe? :picard:


    Will you guys stay awake all night long chasing away the darkness on the 21st?

    And, what happened to last year's king/queen? :jaw:

    Congrats! :salute:



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    Enjoy.. respect. Granted
    I don’t kneel
     
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    King Joel...I like it!
     
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    A king, eh? Well, it's not always easy.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Monty Python and The Holy Grail
    Scene 3: Repression is Nine Tenths of the Law?
    [thud]

    [King Arthur music]

    [thud thud thud]

    [King Arthur music stops]

    ARTHUR: Old woman!

    DENNIS: Man!

    ARTHUR: Man. Sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?

    DENNIS: I'm thirty-seven.

    ARTHUR: I-- what?

    DENNIS: I'm thirty-seven. I'm not old.

    ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you 'Man'.

    DENNIS: Well, you could say 'Dennis'.

    ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called 'Dennis'.

    DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?

    ARTHUR: I did say 'sorry' about the 'old woman', but from the behind you looked--

    DENNIS: What I object to is that you automatically treat me like an inferior!

    ARTHUR: Well, I am King!

    DENNIS: Oh, King, eh, very nice. And how d'you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers! By 'anging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress with the--

    WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh! How d'you do?

    ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady? I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that?

    WOMAN: King of the who?

    ARTHUR: The Britons.

    WOMAN: Who are the Britons?

    ARTHUR: Well, we all are. We are all Britons, and I am your king.

    WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.

    DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship: a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--

    WOMAN: Oh, there you go bringing class into it again.

    DENNIS: That's what it's all about. If only people would hear of--

    ARTHUR: Please! Please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?

    WOMAN: No one lives there.

    ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?

    WOMAN: We don't have a lord.

    ARTHUR: What?

    DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week,...

    ARTHUR: Yes.

    DENNIS: ...but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting...

    ARTHUR: Yes, I see.

    DENNIS: ...by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,...

    ARTHUR: Be quiet!

    DENNIS: ...but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major--

    ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!

    WOMAN: Order, eh? Who does he think he is? Heh.

    ARTHUR: I am your king!

    WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.

    ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.

    WOMAN: Well, how did you become King, then?

    ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,...

    [angels sing]

    ...her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur.

    [singing stops]

    That is why I am your king!

    DENNIS: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

    ARTHUR: Be quiet!

    DENNIS: Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

    ARTHUR: Shut up!

    DENNIS: I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

    ARTHUR: Shut up, will you? Shut up!

    DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.

    ARTHUR: Shut up!

    DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

    ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!

    DENNIS: Oh, what a give-away. Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about. Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?
     
  12. jtstromsburg

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    A great scene for sure. And yes, it’ll be tough I’m sure