{"id":57136,"date":"2024-02-11T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T05:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=57136"},"modified":"2024-02-13T06:26:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T11:26:48","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-remaster-lviii-it-is-a-silly-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=57136","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remaster LVIII: It is a Silly Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/DM_of_the_Rings_Page-59.png' width=100% alt='' title=''\/><\/div><div class='mouseover-alt'><\/div><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jaquandor once\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/byzantiumshores.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/beat-your-children-its-legal.html\">said this<\/a>\u00a0about quoting Monty Python at a Renaissance Festival, although this applies just as well to playing D&amp;D:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">[\u2026] So it\u2019s with nothing but love and heartfelt concern that I inform you that walking around shouting quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail like \u201cI\u2019m bein\u2019 repressed!\u201d and \u201cNi!\u201d is the Renaissance Festival equivalent of shouting \u201cFreebird!\u201d at a rock concert. Don\u2019t do this, folks. Wandering through a Renaissance Festival with your friends, pretending to debate the airspeed of an unladen swallow, is just shooting fish in a barrel. Don\u2019t do it.<\/div>\n<p>Having said that, just\u00a0<em>try<\/em>\u00a0to get through this part of the movie without thinking about it. I swear the old woman in panel six is just about to say, \u201cThere\u2019s some lovely filth over here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr58x.jpg\" alt=\"Right. I can\u2019t let you in while we, or anyone else, is armed.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This really is like shooting fish in a barrel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=906\">-Shamus, Wednesday Jan 31, 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The link to the original is on just the date above this, due to the fact the links were getting well out of hand in that particular blurb, with me trying to add <em>around<\/em> his cited source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaquandor once\u00a0said this\u00a0about quoting Monty Python at a Renaissance Festival, although this applies just as well to playing D&amp;D: [\u2026] So it\u2019s with nothing but love and heartfelt concern that I inform you that walking around shouting quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail like \u201cI\u2019m bein\u2019 repressed!\u201d and \u201cNi!\u201d is the Renaissance Festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dm-of-the-rings-remaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57165,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57136\/revisions\/57165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}