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:''Percy and Queenie are playing frisbee. Queenie throws.'' <br>
:''Percy and Queenie are playing frisbee. Queenie throws.'' <br>
:'''Percy''' ''(catches the Frisbee)'': Howzat! <br>
:'''Percy''' ''(catching the Frisbee)'': Howzat! <br>
:'''Queenie''': [[Percy, who's Queen?]]<br>
:'''Queenie''': [[Percy, who’s Queen?]]<br>
:'''Percy''' ''(drops the Frisbee)'': Oh! Butterfingers! <br>
:'''Percy''' ''(drops the Frisbee)'': Oh! Butterfingers! <br>


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*[[All our other counterparties have agreed this]]
*[[Sovereign immunity]]
*[[Sovereign immunity]]

Latest revision as of 11:41, 26 June 2020

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Percy and Queenie are playing frisbee. Queenie throws.
Percy (catching the Frisbee): Howzat!
Queenie: Percy, who’s Queen?
Percy (drops the Frisbee): Oh! Butterfingers!

The very worst reason for agreeing to a counterparty’s demand, but one which is all too often the chief motivating factor, particularly of Sales and their glad-handing lightweight counterparts in senior relationship management.

Also, the intellectual grounding for sovereign immunity.

See also