La Recomenda del Seneschal par el RUMP

[Hooligan]

Parti pr'iensa Reviviçaziun Sub el Monarc'h
La Recomenda del Seneschal
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Revitalisation Under the Monarch Party
Recommendation of a Prime Minister

20 January 2008

Sieu Maxhestà --

In a virtual replay of the recommendation speech made last Cosa (which fact can be taken to symbolise the laziness that surely will plague the coming administration of government), I come now before Your Majesty seeking an audience to recommend the appointment of a Seneschal.

My political party, the RUMP, having failed rather miserably to regain its minority status in the Cosa, has discussed the responsibility and duty that once more falls to it, to recommend the organisation of Your Majesty's government. The pitiful failure of the most recent Seneschal to get the RUMP off the hook for this duty (and all that follows) was taken into consideration by the party membership, and it was decided at some length (and with some protestations) that the most fitting punishment for this surprising and stunning letdown would be to once again stick the poor guy who was deemed most responsible with the title.

The RUMP seems to speak in one voice (if you don't count two lone voices in the wilderness) on the matter of the selection that is now incumbent upon it. Therefore it now falls to me, sire, as the leader of the party holding a majority of seats in the Cosa, to report that the said party does by these presents recommend the appointment of yours truly, the most humble and unworthy Baron Tepistà, to serve as the First Minister of Your Majesty's realm.

To my nation, I say now that experience hath made me fully aware of the commitment and dedication to task and duty that such a position requires of me. I am able to accept the continuing burdens of this great office only because I have full and complete confidence in the active support of my fellow countrymen and women, whose generous assistance and service their nation, and their most undeserving Prime Minister, will require from them.

I also wish to thank the members of my Cabinet Ministries during the 37th Cosa for their service, and I look forward to working with the newly organised Cabinet, which shall be appointed in the coming hours or days, sure in the knowledge that it is by their hard work (under my unrelenting whip) that this nation will fulfill the promises of its bright future.

With love for my nation, with gratitude for the faith my party has (in an apparently drunken state) placed yet again in me, and with what can only be called the fear of God for whatever the heck is making me go ahead say these words, I now stand ready to administer Your Majesty's government to the very best of my very limited abilities for the duration of the 38th Cosa, or until confidence fails in my corrupt, scandal-filled, do-nothing, inept, lackadaisical, and uncaring government, and all my cronies and I get subpeonaed by the Senäts to explain how we managed to live so high on the proverbial hog while suckling from a bone-dry public teat. (Whichever comes first.)

Prima capiam pocula,

Hooligan
Party Leader
(( RUMP ))

[Capt. Sir Mick Preston]

Hear, Hear!

Everyone give three Zooks for Hooligan!

The Traditional First Round is on the Baron! Everyone, Drink up!

[Sir Alexandreu Davinescu]

ZOOKS! ZOOKS! ZOOKS!

[Hooligan]

Well, actually, barman, hold your bottles. There is still hope the King might choose to ignore the recommendation and appoint someone else.

Let us pray,
Hooligan

[Capt. Sir Mick Preston]

Well, then...uh...



Let's have a few rounds on the out-going Seneschal's tab while we wait!

[King John]

In spite of Lord Hooligan's hopefully-worded suggestion that I might choose a different Seneschal, the Organic Law would seem, sadly, to leave me little choice. (I guess I *could* dissolve the Cosa, but ... No.) Therefore ...

APPOINTMENT OF SENESCHAL FOR THE 38TH COSA

We John by the Grace of God King of Talossa and of all its Realms and Regions, King of Cézembre, Sovereign Lord and Protector of Pengöpäts and the New Falklands, Defender of the Faith, Leader of the Armed Forces, Viceroy of Hoxha and Vicar of Atatürk, minded to provide for the good government and security of our realms, noting that one political party has won a majority of the seats in the 38th Cosa, and cognizant of the recommendation, made to us by that party, that our well-beloved and trusty subject Lord Hooligan should continue as our first Minister, do hereby assure the same Ma Lord Hooligan of our grateful acquiescence in his nomination, and do appoint him to the Seneschalsqab del Regipäts Talossan to continue in that office until the election of the 39th Cosa.

Done under our hand royal at our residence in the city of Centennial in Colorado, this 20th day of January, being the Second Sunday after the Feast of the Epiphany, in the year of salvation 2008, of the independence of Talossa the 29th, and of our reign the 1st.

— John R

[Dréu Gavárþic'h]

Congratulations Lord Hooligan! I look forward to a year with little to no party strife.

Dréu Gavártgic'h
Deputy Party Leader of "His Majesty's Loyal Opposition"

[Sir C. M. Siervicül]

¡Gratüleschaziuns, va Seneschal!

[Flip Molinar]

I'll give you 4 zooks.

ZOOK

ZOOK

ZOOK

ZOOK

[Xhorxh Asmour]

Congratulations, boss! ;D

[EM Vürinalt]

Congrats Lord Hooligan!

Talossa has a bright future under you. Huzzah!

[Xhorxh Asmour]

mbenzschawel said:

Congrats Lord Hooligan!

Talossa has a bright future under you. Huzzah!

... and under your RUMP! ;D