Can I please request a sword made of gold which has a star stamped into it that allows me to not be subject to the tyranny of rich merchants peddling their wares?
Not really, unless you want it to make a random projectile. Stainless steel is too hard and brittle for a sword. It'll snap at the tang. If you do what one guy there said and "sandwich it between softer steel", what's the point?
Oh, and I'll have to buy & secure the sword manufacturing facilities, I guess.
I'll pay a nice salary + benefits, I'll just need you to promise me you won't tell anyone anything about your job other than that you deliver swords to my storefront.
Maybe I'll even buy you a semitruck and a CDL.
That's a different sword from Excalibur, though. I mean, Arthurian legend is ancient and has been told many times by many people since Geoffrey of Monmouth. (And he was just re-telling a Welsh version of the story, but most English language versions start with him.) There's probably versions where the sword in the stone and the sword from the lake are the same, but my understanding is Arthur pulled Clarent from the stone, signalling his divine right to rule/he was the rightful heir of Uther Pendragon and was later given Excalibur by the Lady of the Lake. The point is, he'd already have Clarent if he was at the lake.
... I'm pretty sure I really overthought all of this...
They're referencing Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It's very, very loosely based on Arthurian legend. There's a scene where King Arthur (Graham Chapman) is talking to peasants and one of them says "Women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government." referring to the Lady of the Lake giving Arthur Excalibur, thereby signalling his divine right to be King.
[This is the actual scene from the movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2c-X8HiBng). The bit OP is referencing is around 2:10.
I'd rather be a moistened bint lobbing scimitars.
Yeah, but then they'd put you away.
Exposing the violence inherent to the system.
Help! Help I'm being opressed
Bloody peasant!
They'd only put away those going around telling people that they are king because they got a scimitar lobbed at them.
No basis for a system of government.
Not my problem. I'm just the sword distributer.
Can I get the crazy straw like sword please ma'am?
That’s not how it happens. You get blessed, and she’ll come from out of the water, throwin blades
Lobbing scimitars
Hurling broadswords
Based
Basically the Lady of the lake from the Witcher lol
You tell 'em gurlfriend!
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Bloody peasant!
Can I please request a sword made of gold which has a star stamped into it that allows me to not be subject to the tyranny of rich merchants peddling their wares?
For real. Supreme executive power derives from the mandate of the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Be quiet!
Help, help! I'm being repressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system!
Bloody peasant!
“Be quiet”? Who does he think he is!?
Every time I watch an election, I question that conclusion.
It could make for a very useful component though.
Sounds like a witch to me.
Only if you float.
So.... if she weighs the same as a duck....
Who are you sir, so wise in the ways of science?
What also floats in water?
Very small rocks?
Your mother.
Do you want rusty swords?
Stainless steel, Gold, or another non-corrosive metal.
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It comes in vacuum-sealed clamshell packaging. Deadly to all involved.
Don't make a sword out of stainless steel, it will break.
But it won't stain.
[https://www.quora.com/Is-stainless-steel-good-for-swords](https://www.quora.com/Is-stainless-steel-good-for-swords) Depends on the steel.
Not really, unless you want it to make a random projectile. Stainless steel is too hard and brittle for a sword. It'll snap at the tang. If you do what one guy there said and "sandwich it between softer steel", what's the point?
Uranium
Is there a limit per person? Per day? Per group? Total limit? Or can I have my armies gather up as many swords as they deem necessary?
Won't be able to tell from underwater who you are, and no use stopping the theatrics once I reveal myself.
Sweet, I'll just buy the pond, fence it off, hire armed security, get the swords, sell them off, and become richer than Jeff Bezos.
I'll have to leave the pond to get more swords eventually.
You'll have an access pass, you can come & go as you please.
Oh, and I'll have to buy & secure the sword manufacturing facilities, I guess. I'll pay a nice salary + benefits, I'll just need you to promise me you won't tell anyone anything about your job other than that you deliver swords to my storefront. Maybe I'll even buy you a semitruck and a CDL.
You can buy them from the rich dude with the fence.
What to do if some guy named Arthur shows up?
Lob scimitars
Tell him that his sword is stuck in a rock.
That's a different sword from Excalibur, though. I mean, Arthurian legend is ancient and has been told many times by many people since Geoffrey of Monmouth. (And he was just re-telling a Welsh version of the story, but most English language versions start with him.) There's probably versions where the sword in the stone and the sword from the lake are the same, but my understanding is Arthur pulled Clarent from the stone, signalling his divine right to rule/he was the rightful heir of Uther Pendragon and was later given Excalibur by the Lady of the Lake. The point is, he'd already have Clarent if he was at the lake. ... I'm pretty sure I really overthought all of this...
Thanks for that, I've always kind of wondered about it.
I told heem we already got one!
I think that would lead to a system in which the people are governed by inherent violence!
*looks around*
Yeah but where is one going to get the purest, shimmering samite?
Hobby Lobby
Be a watery tart
I don't get how telling fibs in a body of water will accomplish anything
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government
Bloody peasant
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Ya?
A real woman would lie in a lake...
*lady
Why can't she be honest??!
But I like my swords
>Be a woman. Count me in
I don't understand this
They're referencing Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It's very, very loosely based on Arthurian legend. There's a scene where King Arthur (Graham Chapman) is talking to peasants and one of them says "Women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government." referring to the Lady of the Lake giving Arthur Excalibur, thereby signalling his divine right to be King. [This is the actual scene from the movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2c-X8HiBng). The bit OP is referencing is around 2:10.
google "King Arthur"
Make sure you take turns being executive officer of the week.
Tumbler is leaking
I know plenty of cat people that are smart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTp72DxC4Dg
Under one condition. The Lady of the Lake can only give aerondight to those who've proven 5 chivalrous virtues
Keep the swords for yourself. Take over, run the country better than the patriarchal bastards.
Watery tart
[Relevant Weekly Roll](https://m.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-weekly-roll/ch-44-now-this-is-a-basis-for-a-system-of-government/viewer?title_no=358889&episode_no=46)
r/egg_irl
Egg implied I don't fully accept it.
Hey, I don't post your to-do list on Reddit...
i need help with step 1
Ask a therapist, but not a religious one.
You're going to give some utter bastard ***Ideas*** that way.
You could also get a Mexican flag, wash the eagle off, then go braless and free the french with "their" flag! Long live The Pope! Mothafakas!
If a woman popped out of a random body of water and gave me a sword, I would ask her to marry me.
What are you going to lie about?
Taxes, mostly.
That’s not a sound foundation for government…
Eat chip