[Glorantha] The word "pharaoh"

[Jane Williams]

> > From: Kajabor <kajabor at yahoo.com>
> adds
> 
> > I also didn't like that he called the Pharoah's
> > musicians "The Beatles," and his low-priced furniture store "Ikea."
> 
> If this has ever appeared in print, it is not from me.
> 
> =====
> Sincerely,
> Greg Stafford

Of course not, Greg. Your bad puns and C20 references are at least one stage
more subtle - witness "Nochet", and "Corflu". And the "Outrageous Fortune"
bowyers, back in Pavis.

Anyway, Kajabor got it wrong - the Beatles are a *trollish* group,
obviously, based in the Shadow Plateau. Yes, they tour the whole of the Holy
Country, but they're not the Pharoa/aoh's musicians except in the sense that
anything in that land belongs to him. In most other areas, producing "music"
by hitting giant be(a/e)tles with a mace is regarded as a novelty, nothing
more. The traditional tuned trollkin are still vastly more popular.

Is it just me, or have several people's irony-detection systems gone on the
blink recently?