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From: grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman)
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Subject: Does Royalty serve a purpose?
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Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 18:35:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 17 18:35:20 1984
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	Someone has to dedicate new ships.  Let's face it, celebration
    & ritual are very entrenched aspects of our society.  The British
    have very wisely seperated them from running the country by setting
    up a seperate section of the government to handle all the social
    aspects.  Imagine how much more time Ronnie could devote to running
    the country if he didn't have to go to all those purely decorative
    dinners!  It would probably be quite cost-effective to pay a couple
    people some outlandish sum just to take those burdens off the president.
    Also, since they have prestige but no power, they are much safer people
    to send to funerals and stuff.
	So we need to find a couple of interesting Americans who
    aren't doing anything else important right now and appoint them
    Grand Poohbah and Grande Poohbess.  How about Alice Cooper and
    Ruth Gordon?  No, but seriously, Yul Brenner and Katherine Hepburn
    would make much more sense.

							-Glenn