November 30, 2009

Practicing for

THE JOUST!

I've decided that we puppies should bring back the Middle Ages custom of
THE JOUST!
(I think the Middle Ages were like 1950 or something).

Evidently, to do the joust, you pick up a big stick and
run at someone else who has a big stick as well!

The tall guy said there were supposed to be horses involved,
but I think this new way is better!
Wherever there are horses,
there's bound to be lots of horse 'deposits'.
You can run a lot faster when you don't
have to watch where you're running!
You have to run very very fast with the stick.
Some knights named their stick 'Lance'.
I named my stick 'Sticky'.
RUN! RUN!

I just asked the tall guy what a knight might say before he did a joust!
Here's what he said:
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."

I told him that he should try to get that published somewhere!

And here we are at the end of the joust.
Notice that I am no longer holding Sticky in my mouth.
I found that if you run very fast with a stick in your mouth,
you are very liable to get splinters.
Splinters are NOT fun.

I do not know how the knights who lived in 1950 did it.

Jousting is hard!
Maybe we should just stick with Frisbee Golf!