The Gumball 3000 rally

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 9:26 am

http://www.salon.com/people/feature/200 ... index.html

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 9:42 am

Some people are just way too rich, aren't they? That's really disgustingly self-indulgent...

I always enjoy hearing tales of the Middle Ages, those glorious centuries when the upper classes had so little regard for the humanity of the peasants and townspeople that groups of elegant, spirited aristocrats would don dark clothing and masks, saddle up their prized Arabian stallions in the middle of the night and ride through town with polo-type mallets, merrily clubbing the brains out of any poor, luckless buggers who happened to be in their way. "Har har har!" they must have cried, swilling aged brandy from jeweled casks as they toweled the blood from their gloves with the flaxen hair of petrified local virgins.

Did you do this in your youth, fable?

*flinches in preparation for the Moderator's Fist™*

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 9:51 am

Heh. I rather wish I did.

It's clear the writer has deliberately gone over the top, but with a more careful brush it should have been possible to drip just as much acid into far more sensitive joints.