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Just after King Arthurs time there were reports around England of a strange trend involving a book club. After reading the tale of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight these people started wearing girdles for an unknown reason. Many people thought it was because the “brave knights” as they call themselves, were what stupid but it was much deeper than that. These brave knights actually thought they were part of the tale and the girdles represented a symbol of failure which all of the members in the book club had experienced. The leader of the club who goes by the name of Arthur King realized that his new founded book club was filled with people who were for the most part, failures, as Arthur King had convinced them to drop out of any careers they may have had and join his club that would restore the knights of the round table to England.

Needless to say, their ambitious goal did not work out, but upon reading Sir Gawain and The Green Knight for research and historical purposes, they noticed how the book was truly a classic and they should at least show the great tale some respect. Their idea of paying homage to this legendary tale is to admit that they may be failures at life but they are brave and noble enough to show it with their girdles.

This is where the girdle trend was taken to a new level. The “girdlers” as they now called themselves went public about their noble approach to failure and they took England by storm. Within 3 days there was a global shortage of girdles and many people in England were ashamed to be seen in public without a girdle because they would be mocked for their dishonesty and disloyalty. Soon the girdles started flowing into England and everyone was extremely honest and chivalrous and failure was not frowned upon anymore because the use of girdles showed that failure could be accepted.

But that is where the fall of the “Girdlers” begins. Soon England's economy began to crash because people suddenly were eager to fail just so they could admit it with dignity and confidence. The stock market crashed and they were only living on their girdle exports to other nations. England quickly scrapped the Girdle creed “chivalry, loyalty, and honesty before all” but it was too late the population started to fall ill with GIDS (girdle immune deficiency syndrome). England's greatest scientists discovered that its acquired by wearing a girdle for long periods of time without taking it off. The longer you keep it on the worse your symptoms get. It starts out as a little cough then goes straight to total organ failure. There was only a short period of time in which one could detect and get treatment for this illness. Since this was a new illness introduced into the populace it took some time to come up with a cure but sure enough one was synthesized. About half of England's population was eradicated by this deficiency but with the introduction of the cure it was purged from society. You may ask why this trend did not catch fire in other countries and there is a simple answer to that no one could be that stupid it as simple as that.

And so England was restored to normalcy and Arthur King was last seen alive when he said “I’m off the find the green knight” and he was later found dead and decapitated in a strange chapel. Nobody knows what happened to Arthur King or why he thought he was a descendant of King Arthur and Gawain the knight but one thing remains certain… nobody cares.