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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (7962)	11/7/2006 6:02:27 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

And who are you? King Canute? "Canute is perhaps best remembered for the legend of how he commanded the waves to go back. According to the legend, he grew tired of flattery from his courtiers. When one such flatterer gushed that the king could even command the obedience of the sea, Canute proved him wrong by practical demonstration (at Southampton or Bosham), to demonstrate that even a king's powers have limits. It is quite possible that the legend is even simply pro-Canute propaganda. Unfortunately, however, this legend is usually misunderstood to mean that he believed himself so powerful that the natural elements would obey him, and that his failure to command the tides only made him look foolish." open2.net