I read that Antonios was just saying to remember the poor people from your position of thoughtfullness. I know he feels strongly about the poor and was probably happy with the appointment but wanted to encourage thoughtfullness for the poor. Hardly offensive. Did I miss something?

Pelican,
Good idea any suggestions?
I'm thinking of adding a school of arguments with hitting on head lessons for the wilfully unfun.
I think I'll add Forrest as minister of arcane points. Then again he might be in competition with me hmmmmm I’ll have to thing about that a bit less. It hurts my brain.

Antonious

Apologies I really thought you were having a go at Bronwyn. Missed your humour completely.

Examinator, may I suggest Forrest be made Minister for Alchemy although I concur 'Arcane' is very good. However the verbose Forrest is a magician at turning dross into golden prose.

We definitely need a Minister for Herding Cats because governing anything is very like that. Which is why I admire film directors so much, for example, how Peter Jackson put together the immense jigsaw of Lord of the Rings is stunning.

Antonios

"Bronwyn, I do not understand! my post was a friendly one, not an attack!"

A thousand apologies, Antonios!

Just goes to show that it's not a good idea to talk to me in riddles!

BTW, I'm very glad I was wrong. :)

"From your kingdom, do not forget your poor relatives."

Drumroll...

As Minister of serious occasions and rare events, I hereby propose a grand meeting of examinator's ministry. Every Minister therein is invited to submit a policy initiative that will assist the poor and marginalised in our society. Proposals from the gallery are also very welcome.

Second drumroll...

To kickstart proceedings, I'm announcing a rare event.

The ATO will forgo a source of income. I hereby declare an end to income tax for all those on incomes of $30 000 or less. In a rare one-off gesture, the ATO will retrospectively return all taxes collected from people earning less than $20 000 in any of the last five financial years.

Well Ministers, beating my imagination and creativity won't be hard, but I challenge you all to at least match and hopefully wildly surpass my generosity.

Forrest

I bet you certainly rue the day you ever started talking to me in riddles!

You're right, I don't pass GO at all. I didn't actually check back on the thread as I should have. I was concentrating on remembering the characters in your tale and it never occurred to me to think of the actual instigator of the thread.

All power to your quincumvirate though! My, what a different world it would be if that group were holding sway! I'm giddy just thinking about it. :)

Bronwyn and Forrest. Well you got me I don't know what a phlaigme is. It sounds like something you clear from your throat. :D

Please elaborate for the benefit of the riddle-challenged.

prime minister (pelican),

In response to your request, and for the benefit of the riddle-challenged, I inform the (OLO) House that the term 'phlaigme' was coined by me in the 'For the sake of OLO ... Rule changes?' thread, here: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2479#56290 in what Bronwyn has been pleased to call the 'Prince Valium' post. It is in the fourth paragraph, near the end. For context, scroll to the preceding post by Col Rouge. I thought that the spelling adopted looked both Arthurian and vaguely gaelic, what with the silent 'g' and all.

Subsequently, Bronwyn indicated enjoyment of the tournament or joust scenario in general, in a post to the 'Have the Liberals lost the plot?' thread, here: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2509#56742 on Monday, 16 February 2009.

On Monday, 23 February 2009 I was 'flamed' by an article author on the 'Installing solar PV panels - the figures don’t add up, BUT…' comments thread, here: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=8569#135733 Viewers are free to scroll to earlier posts I had made, in order to determine whether the flame was justified. The flame continued several posts on from the first post by the author. I substantially ignored it, on that thread.

On Tuesday, 24 February 2009 I started 'The Saga of the Undying Phlaigme: a Tale of the Near Future, in several parts' on Belly's 'Power without pride' thread, where, with his acceptance, I sort of blog, here: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2103#57290 In this post I coined the description 'Cysterhood of the Coup de Grace' and nominated Bronwyn as a member thereof. Bronwyn had not been posting on OLO for a while, and as it turns out, she was then on a visit to Victoria. In the ten parts to the 'Saga of the Undying Phlaigme', I did not ignore the author of the article, but hopefully explained, in allegory, what I considered was happening.

Part 10 of the Saga explains the nature of the 'Cysterhood'.