Saturday 23 June 2012

First Female Archdruid Elected

"Elected"? What sort of idea is "elected"? That would leave you open to all sorts of random results.

For goodness' sake.

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  1. Sounds like a good thing for her. Raising the standards. All we need now is Women Bishops (I can't believe that we had a female prime minister over 30 years ago, and we are still faffing about women in leadership positions).

    And I wonder what would happen if the Beaker Folk decided to Elect a new Arch Druid?

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  2. Some people still turn purple in the face when one mentions that female prime minister you had. Not me, I figure you can and could elect whoever you wanted, and I'm not about to turn purple over it.

    While of course the Archdruid is interested in free and democratic elections, I suspect she might feel that they're not quite appropriate for her little flock, possibly because they may be a little politically immature or someting. I don't think I'd like to be the first person run against her.

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  3. Look at the female close-to-presidential people we've had over stateside - nothing to write home about.

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    1. And you had one President simply because his little chimp mate was no longer available.

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  4. There have been many other examples of Female Leadership, Indira Ghandi in India for one, sadly, to come to a sticky end.

    That's the problem with autocratic rulers, Arch Druid's included - they never know when the revolution will come?

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    1. So UKViewer, tell me the origin of the phrase "to come to a sticky end"... Every time I hear that phrase, I envision, to use your example, Indira Ghandi being drowned in a vat of honey or syrup of some kind.

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  5. It's an English slang phrase used to disguise how a person met their unnatural death. TS Elliott used it in his book Times and Tides (1935) to describe the end of Thomas A'Beckett, murdered by the King's men in the Crypt of Canterbury Cathedral.

    In common usage before that date, references to it before the end of the 19th Century in English Literature.

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