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Paddy the Scot
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Hordeland
Mar 2001
time: 14:33
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Thank you Johann,
30BC onto Iron Jackson.
We too have a Royal family. Yet they do not live here, they visit very rarely and treat us like some sort of settler pump. Add to this we have to share them with the people of the United Kingdom - Brittan. Elizabeth is the Queen of England, and the Queen of Australia. These are two seperate titles, and could be handed to two seperate people if it ever came to it. We, the people of Australia, had a referendum a few years back to see if we should become a Republic. There are many reasons why this failed, but fail it did. Thus the Royal family still have a lot of rights here on our fair isle.
We have offered to build them a fantastic palace in our NorthEastern state (which happens to be called "Queensland") Here we would hope that the Queen and her family could hold court between 10am and 5pm 6 days a week. They would also be required to hold dinner parties and a ball once a week. It would be a fantastic palace. And it would be open to the public 18 hours per day 7 days per week. We would have pony trails, Royal guards in their dashing uniforms, parades, fairy floss, all sorts of rides, merchandising to the hilt. This would just add to the economy in such a great way, as we all know they are fantastic with the tourists...
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bongo
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TRBNGR
Sep 1999
time: 06:33
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@Johann, if our king tried to abuse his power, we would either have a very fast transition to republic, or get another king. In the two situations I mentioned, all he did was to make a decision when those who were supposed to do it were struck by panic and unable to even pick their nose without anyone telling them. The first time was when the labour party won their first election(they were more or less communists at the time, maybe in the 1920s). The kings job after each election is to give the winner the task of forming a government, normally he takes advice from the current prime minister but this time the PM didn't know what to do so the king simply had to state the obvious and give the task of forming a new government to the labour party. The second time was at the beginning of WW2 when norway was assaulted by germany. The norwegian government were very close to surrendering when the king urged them to fight instead.
A brief history of norway:
United 865 by King Harald Haarfagre
Fell under danish rule in the 15th century,when the ruling class were wiped out by the black plague (svartedauden)
Given to sweden as bounty at the end of the napoleonic wars in 1814. A national assembly were quickly put together. They made a new constitution and declared independence . A brief war with sweden followed in which we lost our (very brief) independence
but kept our constitution.
1905 When faced with the choice of a new war with (a well prepared) norway or dissolving the union, the swedish king chose to accept norways independence.
1940-45 Occupied by germany through WW2
1970 Oil-production is starting
Present, we are obscenely rich, and infinitely greedy 
Ah well, save to johann again
@Paddy :top:
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21-01-2004 19:59
Bongo took his Cow for a shave after New Years...
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Save is in Norway.
... some like it hot 
Now I have started with this weekends big task. Just bought a wireless-lan kit with router+pci-card. Gotta get it connected now, lots of fun for a techie 
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