| The Samurai are known for been one of | | | | non-concerned, with samurai around, his |
| the most respected and respectable class | | | | mind as sharp and stealed as his katana, |
| of citizens of ancient Japan. Such | | | | and ready to use it? |
| status had the samurai they could do | | | | Well, I suppose that depends how drunk |
| things such as dismember people who | | | | the samurai was. Yes, not even the |
| offended them without having to answer | | | | everyman of every culture's favourite |
| for themselves. This was the power the | | | | hobby of drinking was forbidden to the |
| samurai wielded, a power unheard of | | | | samurai. Infact, they used to have quite |
| almost today in any so called civilised | | | | a good knees up on their favourite |
| society. One may even argue that if such | | | | tipple of alcohol laced Sake. |
| people as the samurai were to walk among | | | | Whilst a samurai, in the company of |
| us today, society may well be a much | | | | other samurai may of been forgiving of |
| more respectful place to live out of | | | | and forgiven for intoxicated behaviour, |
| fear of losing limbs at least! | | | | a drunken samurai may well of been a far |
| Indeed, it would be hard to imagine the | | | | more dangerous and volatile person than |
| many undesirable acts of today | | | | any of the yobs of today whilst drunk. |
| co-existing with the presence of samurai | | | | So, we may rest at ease perhaps we are |
| without an abundance of heads but no | | | | been chased by a drunken idiot with |
| bodies. For example, could you possibly | | | | intentions of beating us up, rather than |
| imagine the today's danger of drunken | | | | a drunken and incoherent samurai with a |
| behaviour, this terror pervading our | | | | legal right to cut our heads off! |
| streets, offending all, concerned or | | | | |