A rapier for Christmas

[Marc]

Originally Posted by celtan

Hablen en cristiano!

: )

You know, I've seen pretty serious fights being started by these very words*...

Well, ready your weapons, Sir! Fernando, pass me that rapier! I have to... er... defend my honour!

Now the question is... can I run away with it faster than a harquebut bullet?

* Just because this is kind of an inside (one could even say "ethnographic", now that I think about it… ) joke, and need some knowledge of a certain cultural framework to be truly understood, I prefer to err on the caution side and say this: although what I just wrote is nothing but true, I’m just joking. There’s nothing but animus iocandi at play, here.