2007-09-07 02:11:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Ok, so I didn't put a question mark because Y!A always has before. Go figure.
2007-09-07 02:12:34 · update #1
Well, I see you've read Hamlet, Raji.
2007-09-07 03:16:23 · update #2
Maybe I am a pessimeist, 1star--but it really does get old after the 4th or 5th time.
2007-09-07 03:17:47 · update #3
Except, Terry, that it's a SEALED message. You don't wanna give away the fact that you know what it says.
2007-09-09 02:18:03 · update #4
Ahhhh Mad, NOW you know why us Royal messengers have developed ways of opening the messages without breaking the seals. When we find such messages we then hand them over to some poor unsuspecting lackey to hand to the king. LOL. Crude but effective, to say nothing of improving our chances of surviving until retirement.
BB,
Raji the Green Witch
2007-09-07 03:11:24 · answer #1 · answered by Raji the Green Witch 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I read something about that once. The story first occurs in Homer's Iliad, where the hero Bellerophon (the pegasus-rider) is told to carry a sealed message to the king of Lycia, which contains instructions that he be put to death.
There is a problem with our usual interpretation of the story though! The "letter" cannot be a letter, since Homer composed his poem in the illiterate dark ages of Greek history. So scholars think the "letter" was actually a death symbol or pictogram.
2007-09-07 08:29:26 · answer #2 · answered by Thalia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The way you have your question worded you would hand the message to the person and then kill them, as they became the bearer the moment you handed it to them. You'd be off the hook because you could plead that was what the king ordered or self defense.
Nothing to hate about it.
2007-09-07 17:31:53 · answer #3 · answered by Terry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look at the bright side. It could have said
"Torture and Kill the Bearer of this."
(and, with any luck at all,
it's NOT for King George!)
Geez, Mad. You're such a pessimist!
2007-09-07 03:07:29 · answer #4 · answered by 1staricy2nite 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In our kingdom we, the Messengers of the King, have formed a trade union and been on strike till His Majesty started using e-mails. Enough is enough.
now we send Royal e-mails that read "kill the downloader of this"... so it's THEIR problem!!
2007-09-07 03:07:48 · answer #5 · answered by simonetta 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yea that really sucks. But on the other hand, whoever wrote the message really shouldn't be telling the king what to do. I think thats who he should kill, not you, you are just doing your job.
2007-09-07 02:21:04 · answer #6 · answered by peace_by_moonlight 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does that mean there's a job opening for a messenger?
How's the pay?
2007-09-07 04:39:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Doncha wish your boyfriend was hot like me? Doncha?
2007-09-07 05:48:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
And thus this phrase was born!
"Don't shoot the messenger" lol
2007-09-08 17:47:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yep
2007-09-07 02:17:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋