A Famous Armorer Was Called To Court...

…to demonstrate his new plate design. He set it on a stand in the middle of a grand gallery. The king called in his executioner, a dour and muscular man who prided himself in his ability to slice folk exactly in half, to strike the suit. With a sonorous clang! the executioner’s heavy sword bounced off of the chest piece. Frustrated, he pointed an accusatory finger at the armorer and cried “This is why we can’t halve nice things!”