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King Arthur: Old woman!
Dennis: Man.
King Arthur: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?
Dennis: Iām 37.
King Arthur: What?
Dennis: Iām 37. Iām not old.
King Arthur: Well I canāt just call you āmanā.
Dennis: Well you could say āDennisā.
King Arthur: I didnāt know you were called Dennis.
Dennis: Well you didnāt bother to find out, did you?
King Arthur: I did say sorry about the āold womanā, but from behind you lookedā¦
Dennis: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior.
King Arthur: Well, I am king.
Dennis: Oh, king eh? Very nice. And howād you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If thereās ever gonna be any progressā¦
Peasant Woman: Dennis! Thereās some lovely filth down here⦠Oh! How do you do?
[Dennis joins the Peasant Woman in the nearby filth patch]
King Arthur: How do you do, good lady? I am Arthur, king of the Britons. Whose castle is that?
Peasant Woman: King of the who?
King Arthur: The Britons.
Peasant Woman: Whoāre the āBritonsā?
King Arthur: Well, we all are. Weāre all Britons, and I am your king.
Peasant Woman: Didnāt know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
Dennis: Youāre fooling yourself. Weāre living in a dictatorship! A self-perpetuating autocracy, in which the working classesā¦
Peasant Woman: Oh, there you go, bringing class into it again.
Dennis: Well, thatās what itās all about! If only people wouldā
King Arthur: Please, please, good people, I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
Peasant Woman: No one lives there.
King Arthur: Then who is your lord?
Peasant Woman: We donāt have a lord.
King Arthur: What?
Dennis: I told you, weāre an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as sort of executive officer for the weekā¦
King Arthur: Yesā¦
Dennis: ā¦but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meetingā¦
King Arthur: Yes I seeā¦
Dennis: ā¦by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairsā¦
King Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis: ā¦but by a two thirds majority in the case of moreā¦
King Arthur: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
Peasant Woman: āOrderā, eh? Who does he think he is?
King Arthur: I am your king.
Peasant Woman: Well, I didnāt vote for you.
King Arthur: You donāt vote for kings.
Peasant Woman: Well, howād you become king, then?
[Angelic music playsā¦]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.
Dennis: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis: You canāt expect to wield supreme executive power just ācause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Arthur: Shut up!
Dennis: I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, theyād put me away!
Arthur: [grabs Dennis] Shut up! Will you shut up?!
Dennis: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!
Arthur: [shakes Dennis] Shut up!
Dennis: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, Iām being repressed!
Arthur: Bloody Peasant!
Dennis: Ooh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? Thatās what Iām on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didnāt you?
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Slugger O'Toole
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