Quote Originally Posted by Sir Knight View Post
Some people get hot and bothered for ninjas. Others get all moist over pirates. I get it up for knights. Because, I think, if you're going to idealize a historical figure, who better than someone who puts on his plate mail, gets on his horse, patrols his domain, punishes injustice, and woos maidens. No sneaking around and poisoning people or killing them with gardening tools or pillaging honest business men before starving to death at sea.

Granted, you kind of have to throw out all that stuff about only paying lipservice to the codes of chivalry or the fact that most knights were cruel, inbred, selfish bastards for the illusion to work, but oh well.
This mentality reminds me of my former roomie, who seemed to love Knights, Samurais and Cowboys and the notion of the knight-in-shining-armour persona with women. FWIW, I type him IEI, lol.

And you just love the 18th-19th Century Sir Walter Scott variety of knight. At least you know there's a difference