During the legendary time of King Arthur, Sir Bedevere had an idea to get back at the outrageous French, who had refused help in locating the Holy Grail.
Bedevere’s idea was genius! All of the Knights of the Round Table—elite special forces soldiers of their day—would hide inside of the large wooden rabbit they’d had built. Then, they’d wheel the rabbit right up to the French castle, where the French soldiers would bring the apparent gift inside.
Then, the knights would leap out, catching everyone inside by surprise!
“Not only by surprise, but totally unarmed!” Bedevere explained, as Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table watched the French bring the rabbit inside their castle.
This is an homage to the ancient story of the Trojan Horse. Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid explains that Odysseus, well known for his cunning and intelligence (like Bedevere in The Holy Grail), came up with the plan to construct a massive wooden horse.
Odysseus had his men leave a little note on the horse sayi…
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