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