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To: Lane3 who wrote (3761)	12/5/2002 12:39:47 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

Something like that. I'm not an absolute egalitarian as far as results go, only opportunity. So I'm balanced on the issue <g> Anyway, Dutch and Scandic royalty is fine. But my model for potential royalty is C.B.Fry, a true all-rounder... He was a great batsman at a time when English cricket was at its zenith, an international soccer player, the co-holder of the world long-jumping record while still at university, and an outstanding amateur all-rounder. He also stood as a reform-minded Liberal candidate for the British Parliament three times (losing honorably on each occasion), commanded a naval training school in southern England, edited a popular publication called Fry's Magazine, produced several books on cricket that are still classics, flirted with a career in Hollywood and wrote epigrams or translated English hymns into Greek for fun--when he was not talking incessantly or practicing his dancing. - from a biographical review In the 1920s, while spending three years as a delegate to the League of Nations, he was offered the throne of Albania... now, there's a king. Apparently he was also extremely snobbish - essential - and a somewhat ruthless competitor. Hmmm. And impressed by Hitler, which these days is not so good (and was not atypical among the more anti-Semitic British upper-class at that time). As Royal flaws go, there have been far worse... and at least he had a higher IQ than lichen. Good to hear from you. It seems strangely quiet here, although this could be because I've left the moron filters up...