The 10,000 Post Thread!

[unclehobart]

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,...

 

[unclehobart]

ARTHUR:
Yes.

 

[unclehobart]

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

 

[unclehobart]

ARTHUR:
Yes, I see.

 

[unclehobart]

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

 

[unclehobart]

ARTHUR:
Be quiet!

 

[unclehobart]

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

 

[Luis G]

making it all the way to 3,000?

 

[unclehobart]

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

 

[unclehobart]

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

 

[unclehobart]

ARTHUR:
I am your king!

 

[unclehobart]

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

 

[unclehobart]

ARTHUR:
You don't vote for kings.

 

[unclehobart]

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

 

[unclehobart]

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!

 

[unclehobart]

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.

 

[unclehobart]

ARTHUR:
Be quiet!

 

[unclehobart]

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

 

[unclehobart]

ARTHUR:
Shut up!

 

[unclehobart]

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!