I was thinking more of the (relatively few) cases where someone ends up on the Patrician's bad side: "The Patrician could not tolerate mime artists. It was a s

I was thinking more of the (relatively few) cases where someone ends up on the Patrician's bad side: "The Patrician could not tolerate mime artists. It was a strange aversion, but there you are. Anyone in baggy trousers and a white face who tried to ply their art anywhere within Ankh's crumbling walls would very quickly find themselves in a scorpion pit, one wall of which was painted the advice: Learn The Words." For the Patrician it was mimes, for Jobs presumably Flash, bikinis and now also satire ;-)