[MR] Coronation Curia - New Orders?

[Mike Ruttle]

> I deeply appreciate the resistance to instituting a new GOA level award
> without grand fathering in the current order. It is not disingenuous on my
> part to say I don't think it is the gOA which is the stumbling block, but
> the question of who gets pulled up into that new order, and how. Does the
> clock reset? Might be hard on the ancient ones, stiff of knee and neck, to
> achieve that new lofty status.-Phillip Jones

Okay, how many Golden Dolphins and Pearls do we have? (there is only a dozen
or so Sea Stags but...) How many GoA's would the King have to give away to
grandfather everyone in? For those not already Peers or in some cases Court
Barons, this would be a new award. The number 500 seems way too low but it's
still too high a number to give out. Not to mention that people who haven't
been active in 10 years would receive a letter in the mail congratulating
them on their GoA (huh?). The award was what it was at the time your
received it. When the bar was set (boy it moves doesn't it?) for entry into
the Orders, it was likely weighed by the reward for inclusion (AoA). Don't
update this level, give stiff old guys reasons to strive for something else.

"...The harder the confict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain
too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything
its value..."
            - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

> The cause of all this is, I understand, that the bars are considered too
> high in the current Atlantian orders. Finally, I'd humbly suggest that it is
> the bar in the peerages which need to be examined.-Phillip Jones

"It's supposed to be hard! If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The
hard... is what makes it great!"
            - Jimmy Dugan, League of Their Own

Cheers

Colin G