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From: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Does Royalty serve a purpose?
Message-ID: <275@erix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 06:48:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 22 06:48:38 1984
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You in the USA don't realize how lucky you are. Kings and queen may be fine
for opening buildings, bridges, after dinner speeches etc but they have one
drawback - they don't go away after max two terms of office. 

Europe has official royalty in several countries. Maybe we could fix up some 
sort of deal with the USA. When we get fed up we could swap for a few months
so we all learn what we really are missing.

Mike Williams
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