D. N. Vercáriâ
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(last post: March 15, 2008 - 16:51)
Citizen #26:
Dieter N Vercáriâ | > > As for news, good news is news that is blown out of proportion. Big headlines, brief fragments of text:
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> The funny thing is that all Dieter's examples, if you changed the names, could have been taken directly from Mad King Bob's old paper, Støttaneu. :)
I didn't intend to ape Stöttaneu, but now I remember that one thing that almost attracted me to King Ben's Talossa in 1996 has been its satirical bone. In fact I was so impressed, inspired and even envious that much of that spirit slipped into the web pages of Textor back in the 90s. In my native language, of course, which made it much easier to light bizarre fireworks of puns.
> Every presidential election we'd had after our first has been a boring one-sided contest. If you do something to change that you'll be a Hero of the Republic for sure. Hell, it could be a test of Dermot's "two-party contests are more exciting" theory.
Competing and winning in an election is one thing, to do one's duties and to make sense in the highest office that one can be elected into in our Republic for an entire year is yet another pair of shoes. Two years ago, when we were going to elect our second President, guarding continuity and traditions of our young Republic may have been a main theme; now we are possibly seeking for guidance and inspiration in a phase when some instances of the old way of having fun seem to have worn out out a bit.
I'll challenge our good President Anglatzarâ once I've come to believe that I'd have something to offer that he hasn't, and if there's no doubt that I'll be able to keep up a President's good work for one entire year, especially under circumstances when the Republic is endangered by some sort of a final sleeping sickness. If I can't promise to be a hornet that will perpetually try to sting the Republic into staying alive for yet another year, then I will not run in the election just for a short flash in the pan. So bear with me. ;-)
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- Dieter
A long history is fine, a long future is better.
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