{"id":285,"date":"2007-08-01T08:32:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T12:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerofjim.com\/2007\/08\/01\/barbarian-ovetures\/"},"modified":"2011-05-10T19:12:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T23:12:23","slug":"barbarian-ovetures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Barbarian Overtures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hullo luv, I&#8217;m home!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hagar, wipe your feet before coming in!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m only here for a minute&#8230;  King Harold says we&#8217;re off with the tide and I just have to pick up a few things to take along&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sure&#8230; again you&#8217;re off!  And what am I supposed to do while you&#8217;re off plundering Europe?  Eh?  Tell me!  Take care of your stinking kids!  And what thanks do I get?? And I bet you won&#8217;t even get on the <em>Pillaging Team<\/em> this time! Lars always makes the Pillaging Team.  Lars brings home silver and amber for Ulla!!  I get smelly hides!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc; float: right; margin: -7px 0 12px 18px\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/barbarians.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those are delicate under things, Helga my Sweet&nbsp;Flower!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t give me <em>Sweet Flower<\/em>! Give me silver and&nbsp;amber!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, yes&#8230; My Treasure&#8230; it will be amber and&nbsp;silver&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, Lars sent his resume to the Huns. The&nbsp;Pillagers do very well there. They get all sort of neat and exotic stuff from the East.  You watch, first chance he gets he&#8217;ll sign on with the Huns and Ulla will have a home filled with great things&#8230; perfumes, pretty silks, ornate door stoppers&#8230; <em>not stinky hides. <\/em>Lars knows how to take care of Ulla&#8230; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, my Jewel&#8230; you know, <em>there is<\/em> silver and amber&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Remember&#8230; it&#8217;s amber from Kiev and silver from Paris&#8230; not the other way around, you shmecko&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, farewell my luv&#8230; Kiev, amber and Paris, silver&#8230; farewell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OK, lads&#8230; step lively.  Rapers to the bow of the ship&#8230; then the Pillagers amidships and the Burners to the stern&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harold&#8230; can I be on the Pillaging Team this time?  You promised that I didn&#8217;t have to be on the Burners this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s because you set the ship on fire the last time Hagar&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an accident&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hear that boys?  It was an accident!!! HAH!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harold can I be on the Raping Team, this time?  Knard is <em>always<\/em> getting on the Raping Team.  When is it going to be my turn?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not a chance Hagar.  I am putting you to the head of the <em>Diplomacy Team<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Diplomacy Team?  Harold, there is <em>no<\/em> Diplomacy Team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is now!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What Diplomacy?  We come ashore.  We see a village, we Pillage it, we Rape the women and the animals, and then we Burn the village to the ground.  There&#8217;s no Diplomacy!  And besides&#8230; I have no title that has the ring of authority&#8230; you know like Erik the Red, or Ethelred the Unready or Henry the Kissinger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see your point&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And besides, what am I supposed to be doing when you and the rest of the guys are out Raping, Pillaging and Burning?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes&#8230; I see what you mean&#8230;&#8217;the idle mind is the devil&#8217;s playground&#8217; sort of thing?  Right, well lads&#8230; please welcome to our company, Hagar the Horrible&#8230; Diplomat and P.L.O.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;P.L.O.?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Permanent Latrine Orderly&#8230; you can tell Helga that you <em>cleaned up&#8230; <\/em>eh, boys?!! HAH!  Prepare to set sail!  Members of the Burners Team, please set your torches on safety&#8230; we don&#8217;t want another mishap&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Geeze&#8230; it was just an accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hullo luv, I&#8217;m home!&#8221; &#8220;Hagar, wipe your feet before coming in!&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m only here for a minute&#8230; King Harold says we&#8217;re off with the tide and I just have to pick up a few things to take along&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Sure&#8230; again &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=285\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}