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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6338307" data-attributes="member: 4937">Well it seems like a bunch of (nonrandom) nonsense to me to as well, but since you have portrayed yourself as an authority on Robin Hood in the popular media, I thought at least the allusions to popular media would have made sense to you.  Now you claim not to recognize Robin Hood as traditionally presented either in the period from 16th century to the 19th, or in the period from 1800 to about 1980, and the period beginning about 1987 to the present appears to be random nonsense to you.  Exactly what wealth of portrayals of Robin Hood are you familiar with that you definitively know what everyone knows?  What is this constant exposure of which you speak?   If your view of Robin Hood isn't covered by the 'random nonsense' I alluded to, and its not covered by the classical literature or movies, what is it actually influenced by?I have little or no sense of humor in the usual sense of that term. Wait?  What?  Didn't you launch into this with...Sounds like an authoritarian position to me.  You can objectively state your belief as a fact without citation or reference to anything but your own experience.  You don't want to get all appeal to authority, but you are going to anyway because its just so unavoidable.  On what planet is that not an assertion of authority in this matter?At this point I'm no longer convinced you have experience and beliefs, which I find to be rather much a relief.  But I am now genuinely curious about what in the world you are seeing in your head when you say you are steeped in the legend.</blockquote>

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