Why do I keep thinking it's a nefarious plot to get all the UK morris dancers in one place and than find some clever way to do them all in at once? They could send in ... oh, a dragon, for instance (Saracen knights being entirely out of the question), who could quickly reduce 14,000 morris dancers to a little heap of scorched bells. Then St. George could come in and save the day (but not the morris dancers of course -- too late for them).

This would certainly make for an interesting mummer's play, putting English culture right out there for all to see while at the same time eliminating forever the annoyance of those noisy, disruptive exhibitions of public morris dancing.

Thank heaven my team is Across the Pond and thus safe from this potential incident of Mass Morricide.

Claire