Shireroth

Bill Bekkenhuis wrote: By the way, where do I live now?

Um, maybe, Brookshire?

Must learn to read for content.

Definitely a private citizen... you don't want me in charge of anything Shireroth depends on to endure.

I don't think I have the mind for legal work. Let me float around for a bit and see where I fit in.

By the way, where do I live now?

...but that's the last time I've ever drinking Tequila.

Did I miss anything?

Mike, is there still a place for me in the realm?

Creationism, in my opinion, is not only bad science, it is bad theology.

The Christian doctrine of Creation holds that while this is a God-inspired world, it is also a world whose reality is distinguishable from God's.

There is, at least to my way of thinking, no good theological reason for ...

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I used to think that Micronationalism was my guilty pleasure... a 54 year old man being addressed as Your Honorable this or Lord Regent that ...

I didn't know you were like that... :whip

That's right, Jess...

You've figured out the chemistry between Mike and myself... Virtual, trans-Atlantic sex across about five time zones :)

But, seriously, I don't need that... real life suffices.

To steal from Jack LaLanne, I'm 54, overweight and ...

...have been greatly exaggerated.

Sorry, folks, was distracted by the City of Bethlehem's beer and music festival and that was followed by catch-up at my macronational job and then a LOA as my Windows operating system suddenly balked at opening any sort of file. (It apparently repaired itself ...

Jacobus Loki wrote:So, in the real world, I support Law and Order, but in micronationry I'll swear allegiance to Zurvan and learn to speak Babkhi before I see the Letter of the Law rule over a place that deserves better.

What, exactly, is "better"?

I'm gonna be gone for a few days for my bday back home. I'm on officially LOA till I say otherwise.

Mike, as Assistant Arbiter, now has all the power and authority of my office till I declare my LOA over.

Erik - Have a great birthday and I'll look forward to your return.

Mike - With your new ...

Though I appreciate the sentiments expressed by both the above posters I believe they are guilty of thinking too much about something that isn't important. Not that that is at all a crime in this particular hobby. :)

Crime?

It practically defines the hobby :)

Ah, but we are occasionally ...

The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on your own. You can grow strong on ...

If this will lead to the Household account running out of money, I suggest a nifty tax on all citizens, preferably according to rank. Dukes pay more, commoners pay less. :D

Sorry, woke up this morning and the first thing I see in Shireroth is a message from my business partner entitled "Fraud ...

The Case of the Question, "Is The Papel Baron?"


BANG!

"The Court will come to order."

The Hon. Michael Fors, Assistant Arbiter of the Imperial Judex, looked like no one to trifle with.

"Mr. Prosecutor, present your case."

Khan Hamilton Burger approached the bench.

"Your Honor, the ...

The matter was taken up at a meeting of Iraq's National Security Council on Thursday on the recommendation of Mr. Maliki, who had been advised by the Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi to express public support for the Obama withdrawal plan. Asked for a comment yesterday, Mr. Chalabi, an old hand at ...

Steven Foong wrote:I suggest all Babkhans gather in one ghetto and all Morovians in another here in Shireroth. Shireroth can be Tymaria II :P

The Morovian ghetto appears to be the legal system

hypatias mom wrote:You can choose your own field of endeavor, and it doesn't have to involve dirt. hehe

Ah, but I'm going to be a lawyer, so I'm afraid it will

Krasniy Yastreb wrote:I can wear a flat cap and toil in the fields 4 days a week if that helps...

Toiling?

In the fields?!

With my allergies?

(You know - pollen, leaf mold, hard work... that sort of thing.)

Maybe I should give this another think

hypatias mom wrote:The Wizard of Id.

Ah, I suspected you'd catch it

And, per Wikipedia, The Wizard of Id has been translated into Finnish!

Everyone in Brookshire would be a Baron except poor Bill Bekkenhuis, who would probably want a title of his own before long. And although there is no law prohibiting me from making everyone a Baron, there's no honor in having a noble title if I just give them to everyone, right? We might as well ...

And we're done here gentlemen.

Mike and Bill! Sad to see you go! :( You'll still be posting in and around Shireroth I guess, but I always find myself being closest to the Shirerithians I'm living with Duchy-wise. Even so, in the short time you guys have been here, I think there has been a good ...

[Full disclosure: Mr. Michael Fors, Esq. is the Assistant Arbiter, Imperial Judex for this case as well as the Senior Partner in the law firm in which I work. Therefore, I should not say anything. But Mr. Fors knows me better than that...]

I'm a newbie but, now that I'm a citizen, I guess I have ...

Dear Diary -

It's been about 2 ½ days since my last update.

Busy! Busy! Busy!

After numerous stops, the ferry finally stopped at Musica. I was the last passenger to be deposited on the shores of Shireroth proper. It was around noonish.

Unusual... I don't think I've ever been on a ferry that ...

*Raises ear trumpet and says, "EH?"

Welcome to Shireroth, Bill. I guess we old fogies have to stick together. Actually, I'm a bit older even than you, but I don't think I'm off my rocker yet. I'm Minister of Immigration and Naturalization, and it is my pleasure to stamp your application APPROVED ...

Hi Ric,

I see that you are in charge of Shireroth now. I am sure you wouldn't mind handling an invasion, or its variation thereof, as your first assignment as Kaiser. :-)

Second.

He's already handled major civil unrest and significant piss-offed-ness amongst several of the movers and shakers ...

Dear Diary -

Well, the Kaiser population has certainly taken a beating in the last 24 hours.

The legitimate Kaiser abdicated in favor of Erik Mortis and then went into exile in Maraguo .

Erik Mortis became Kaiser at 1:13 PM yesterday and enjoyed a glorious reign until 2:33 PM when he abdicated ...

Mike Fors wrote:Feel free to nuke Musica, but the map stays as it is.

Hmmm...

Maybe I should rent rather than buying a place outright

W. F. Beck

One funny thing about Bill is that when you talk to him over the internet, he doesn't at all come across as a 54-year-old man. I was very surprised when I found out his age.

Wow. We should give you and Hypatia's Mom a special forum where you can sit together on rocking chairs and complain about ...

Steven Foong!

I do hope you'll hang out for a bit.

Shireroth is quite the friendly place.

You're allowed three micronational citizenships in Shireroth, so I decided to make Shireroth number two. That way I have someplace to retire to after Morovia revives and falls again. (It will. You know it ...

One funny thing about Bill is that when you talk to him over the internet, he doesn't at all come across as a 54-year-old man. I was very surprised when I found out his age.

As someone once said, you're only young once... but you can be immature your entire life.

I try to take full advantage of ...

Dear Diary...

A day or so later, and not much has changed.

There seems to be three Kaisers at the moment: the one who should be the Kaiser, the one who is the Kaiser and the dead Kaiser.

Death, in Shireroth, is no apparent handicap to political involvement. It may actually prove an advantage ...