King of the Blogs - On Vacation

His Royal Majesty, George III, Elected King of the Blogs for the 2nd time as decreed by the most Worthy of Worthies, the Smartest of the Smart and the most Enchanting of the Enchanted is ON VACATION TOO! Alas, but the world intruded with the deaths of two most wonderful people. Terri Schiavo and John Paul II.

HRM George III felt the necessity to return to blogdom to write a post on the helpless and, having done so, surfed a while since he was there anyway.

What did my royal eyes behold but Judge Ogre thinking that I am slacking off (the links are to posts completed since the last contest entrys had been submitted). Well, not to be out done, I had to prepare this little bit for a quick post.

To that end, I make my Ogresburg Speech, written on the back of an envelope on my trainride to Ogresburg.

Little more than however long ago it was our hero Nick brought forth, upon this continent, a new contest, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "One blog should be King"

Now we are engaged in a great contest of design and writing, testing whether that contest, or any contest so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that contest. We have come to dedicate a portion of that contest as a tribute for those that judge that contest. This we may, in all propriety do. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow, this contest. The highly intelligent judges, who struggled here to pick a winner, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.

It is rather for us, the contestants, to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that, from these honored judges we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the fullest and most complete sense of devotion to a cause, that of humor, and design, and suckinguptothejudges. So may it be that that contest of the bloggers by the bloggers and for the bloggers, shall not perish from the earth.

Thus Speakith I, George III, by the grace of Ogre, Songstress and SmarterCop, King of the Blogs.