[matilda] "Trouble at Mill" ! (BANNED FOR A WEEK)

[R&A]

Thank you :-)

Really cool... and even hilarious sometimes...

annie angst wrote:

> Hello,
> i do hope this is not seen as yet more inappropriate use of the list. 
> Please read, i've attempted to* highlight* the bits of dialogue 
> relating to one of the people involved in what's happened down Matilda 
> over last coupla days, if necessary re-read again and you'll notice 
> that there's stuff in here satirising more than just the "one 
> person"     (o:  (o;
>  
> Annie Angst
> (laugh. wherever we can, we should).
> ________________________________
>  
>  
> [some way into the discussion...]
> DENNIS: What I object to is that you automatically treat me like an 
> inferior ...
>
> ARTHUR: Well ... I AM king.
>
> DENNIS: Oh, very nice. King, eh!  I expect you've got a palace and 
> fine clothes and courtiers and plenty of food.  And how d'you get 
> that? By exploiting the workers! By hanging on to outdated imperialist 
> dogma which perpetuates the social and economic differences in our 
> society!  If there's EVER going to be any progress ...*
> *
> An OLD WOMAN appears.
>
> OLD WOMAN: Dennis! There's some lovely filth down here ...  Oh! how 
> d'you do?
> ARTHUR: How d'you do, good lady ... I am Arthur, King of the Britons 
> ... can you tell me who lives in that castle?
> OLD WOMAN: King of the WHO?
>
> ARTHUR: The Britons.
>
> OLD WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
>  
> ARTHUR: All of us are ... we are all Britons.
>
> DENNIS winks at the OLD WOMAN.
>
> ... and I am your king ....
>
> OLD WOMAN: _Ooooh!  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 ...
> *
> OLD WOMAN: _There you are, bringing class into it again ...
> _
> DENNIS: *That's what it's all about ...  If only -
> *
> ARTHUR: Please, please good people.  I am in haste.  What knight lives 
> in that castle?
>
> OLD WOMAN: No one lives there.
>
> ARTHUR: Well, who is your lord?
>
> OLD 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. But 
> all the decision of that officer must be approved at a bi-weekly 
> meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs.
> *
> ARTHUR: Be quiet!
> DENNIS: ... but a two-thirds majority ...
>  
> ARTHUR: Be quiet!  I order you to shut up.
>
> OLD WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
> ARTHUR: I am your king!
>
> OLD WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
>
> ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
>  
> OLD WOMAN: Well, how did you become king, then?
>
> ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering 
> samite, held Excalibur aloft from the bosom of the water to signify by 
> Divine Providence ...  that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur ... That 
> is why I am your king!
>
> OLD WOMAN: Is Frank (confict resolution!) in?  He'd be able to deal 
> with this one.
>
> DENNIS: Look,  strange women lying on their backs in ponds handing out 
> swords ... *that's 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: *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 around saying I was an Emperor because some 
> moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, people would put me away!
> *ARTHUR: (Grabbing him by the collar) Shut up, will you. Shut up!
>
> DENNIS: *Ah! NOW ... we see the violence inherent in the system.
> *
> ARTHUR: Shut up!
>
> PEOPLE (i.e. other PEASANTS) are appearing and watching.
>
> DENNIS (calling): *Come and see the violence inherent in the system. 
> Help, help, I'm being repressed!
> *
> ARTHUR (aware that people are now coming out and watching): Bloody 
> peasant! *
> * *
> *(pushes DENNIS over into mud and prepares to ride off)
>
> DENNIS: Oh, Did you hear that!  What a give-away.
>
> ARTHUR: Come on, patsy.
>
> They ride off.
>
> DENNIS: *did you see him repressing me, then?  That's what I've been 
> on about ...**
>
> **___________________________________________**
>
> * *
>
> *Thank you. And if you want some more, try this for another quickie!*
>
> *http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/sn-python.html*
>
> *Bye.*
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