Rules To Live By In My Kingdom

If I were king of the Forresttttt; Not Duke, Not Prince, Not Earl……oh, wait, I am KING. All hail to GM’s Corner, King of the Blogs. Now, as I was saying… (you weren’t, you were just getting started…ed. – I thought I told you to go back to Roger L. Simon’s blog.)

Now, as I start my reign...(at this point, Tad, old friend and valued retired Marine and confidant of the King, "HRH, William, Lord Marshal and Duke of Far Away Places" enters.)

“Hail King George!�
“William,� I said with kingly bemusement on my royal visage, “Please don’t hail when I’m reigning.�
“While you’re at it, go fetch my coterie of invaluable and worthy advisors, I need to promulgate three new iron clad laws from my iron clad fists during the first days of my iron clad reign.� (you sure do think a lot of yourself…ed. – What are you still here? Go back to Roger)

Enter Ogre, he of Ogre’s Politics and View’s (and with one heck of a big club), advisor par excellánce.
“Oh great Ogre� Sayith I, “in your experience, what should the first great law be?�

“Majesty, I think getting all of blogdom into the KoB would be nice, but I have a blog to run and all that judging would take an Army of leprechauns to accomplish.�

“Aye, your Majesty� singeth Songstress, she of the enchanting and fetching News From The Great Beyond� entering the throne room. “It would, how about just having everybody turn to the songbook and sing from the bottom of their hearts, the depths of their soul and the tops of their lungs?�

“Your Majesty, if I may� chimed in SmarterCop as he walked in through the side door, “it is imperative that you pass a law against the use of five syllable words and that you no longer allow spitting llamas to grace the sidebars of blogs.�

"Ahh, SmarterCop, my redoubtable and terrific Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the Blogosphere - I hear you." Uttered I.

“Hey, I resemble that remark.� Said Ogre.

“Now, now� said I. “As my advisors, ‘tis your option to advise, not dictate. Besides Ogre, I added a new llama link for you. How about this, let us pass the first law saying that ‘All bloggers shall on pain of reading Instapundit for the rest of their natural lives, apply for inclusion of King of the Blogs, whilst singing from the songbook and using only words of four syllables or less while looking at only "pictures" of llamas that can't spit. Would that suffice?�

“Aye� chimed in all three worthy advisors.

“Call Nick to My court.� I wispered to HRH, William, Lord Marshal and Duke of Far Away Places.

“Yes your Majesty� replied Nick, entering into my August presence ( Hey, this is March, not August…ed. - August means “inspiring awe or admiration.� Oh!... ed.) “What wouldst thou?� (notice the archaic use of wouldst and thou – Nick is nothing if not cognizant of the speaking rules in MY kingdom!)

“Nick, noble and magnificent advisor, what law wouldst thou like to see me mandate?� (There you go with those polysyllabic words again…ed. - It only has two syllables knave of a muse I listened to my Chief Law Enforcement Officer for he hath made his wishes knownst to me before.)

“Sire, I would like to see more humor in the blogosphere, and while we need weighty pieces to educate and elucidate� (see, even the great Nick keeps it simple - well, mostly…ed. - I noticed) “we need laughter in our lives for living is hard at times.�

“Gotcha! So be it.� I uttered, letting all and sundry know that I can use slang as well as longer…. After all, it is my kingdom.

Lastly, I instructed HRH, William, Lord Marshal and Duke of Far Away Places to fetch the last two trusted and magnificent advisors The King of Fools and Stephen of Christweb.

“Sire,� sayest the twain, “we wouldst see that any other iron clad rule you wish to promulgate be allowed, allowable and mandatory.�

“Let it be written, let it be done.� Commanded I.

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! BY ORDER OF HIS MAJESTY GEORGE, KING OF THE BLOGS (GM's Corner) (What? You put in a link to your own blog?...ed. - Hey, I'm King, I can do what I want in my own post on my own blog), THE FOLLOWING IRON CLAD RULES ARE IMMEDIATELY MADE INTO LAW. ( there you go again, acting all kingly on us…ed - Sigh! I may be King, but it's hard to fight against a muse)

1.ALL BLOGGERS SHALL HENCEFORTH APPLY FOR KING OF THE BLOGS WHILE RAISING THEIR VOICES IN SONG AND AVOIDING WORDS OF FIVE OR MORE SYLLABLES AND ONLY LOOKING AT PICTURES OF LLAMAS.
2.LAUGHTER RULES, IF IT’S FUNNY… LAUGH WHICH REALLY IS THE BEST MEDICINE.
3.KING GEORGE CAN PASS AS MANY OTHER IRON CLAD RULES AS HE WISHES AS LONG AS HE IS REIGNING.