Neutral referees for Powergen?

OB..


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Aha! an open goal!!
[pedant]Ius primae noctis[/pedant]
 

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Bryan said:
I've also been told that Scotsmen love it when you tell them what a great fictional story Braveheart was.

Also, ask them when the sequel is being released! :D
 

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Prima Nocte, what idiots would ever let that happen? You'd have to be retarded to put up with that!

That's also a great approach to take! They love being called retarded!
 

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simonjgriffithshr said:
Of course, you could just inform them that they're Scottish...

... :D ;) :eek:

Simon, you are aware that this forum is administered by Mr Robbie Burns? Do you want to have your membership erased instantly?
 

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I'll rephrase:

You could mention Scotland's recent results...

awaiting thehookah's prophesy to come true...

(Mind you, I'm leaving myself open to a similar repost, but with reference to England's!).
 

Robert Burns

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Warned, needs to leave user title alone for seven days or I make it worse and remove his admin rights *evil laugh*

Bryan,

I'm going to come up and take you for a weekend in Glasgow, then you'll see how retarded the scots are (That'll teach ya, ya wee......*beep*).

:rolleyes:
 
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If you do go to Glasgow, I want a picture of you, Bryan, and Lobie Dosser altogether...

Please!
 

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Actaully, Prima Nocta did exist, just not in the same period as William Wallace (cinematic license lol).
 

OB..


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I have no idea where that phrase came from, but it was not from Latin. The word for night is nox (genitive noctis).

"Lovers of French literature may remember the immediate source for Mozart's opera, Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais's anti-feudalist comedy, Le mariage de Figaro (1785), in which Beaumarchais' alter ego, Figaro, attacks the ius primae noctis in words that Braveheart could have spoken to his English oppressors and that audiences in revolutionary France as well as their contemporary counterparts would enthusiastically support" http://www.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin31/p31t4.htm
 

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I beleive it is a mixture of Latin and Course Auld English
 

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I believe it was just mis-remembered.
 
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