KVLFON
I've heard that Ashanti to this day consider themselves winners. Their objective has been achieved: no Brit placed his arse on their chair.
"Atheism is the religion whose followers are easiest to troll"
"They may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR SEATING!"
I Am The Walrus
Watch, this will get adapted into the frontrunner for the 2012 Oscars.
The King's Stool
Paul Bettany as Hodgson
Djimon Hounsou as Asantewaa
edited 19th Apr '11 12:36:19 AM by Buscemi
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Jamais vu
I thought this was about that lucky gold poo you could buy from Think Geek.
UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI
Is that cake frosting?
Impressive. It sorts of remind me of the War of the Oaken Bucket
, fought between Modena and Bologna for the possession of, well, an oaken bucket that the Ghibellines of Modena stole from Bologna's city center.
To this day, these damn Modenesi keep the bucket locked in a tower in their center: a few years ago there was an attempt to steal it back, but sadly they did not succeed 
edited 19th Apr '11 8:53:32 PM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
In March 1900, the British Empire annexed the West African state of Ashanti. They made one strategic error.
A guy tried to sit on the king's stool
.
The Ashanti believed the Golden Stool was the very embodiment of their nation, symbolically holding the souls of all the Ashanti dead, living, and unborn. Only the king could sit on it. So, keeping the Golden Stool hidden, the queen mother
raised an army, and they were all like "You shall not sit!" They fought until September, killing a thousand British troops and taking two thousand fatalities on their own side.
The British won, but they realized they'd better not violate the Golden Stool.
“Love is the eternal law whereby the universe was created and is ruled.” — St. Bernard