Talk:Marquess of Queensberry rules

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[edit] No hugging allowed? Really?

Every fight I've ever seen was about half hugging. Taco Deposit | Talk-o Deposit 01:46, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

Well no hugging is the text of the rules... the interpretation is left up to the referee, i suppose. Anyway, wikipedia attempts to convey only the text of the rules, not their application. So i don't see that anything should be done about this. Fudoreaper 04:08, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Marquess vs Marquis

An anoymous editor from 69.204.28.126 changed the word Marquess with Marquis. Also, doing a google search for 'marquess of queensberry rules' versus 'marquis of quessnsbury rules' reveals marquess to be the more auhtoritative.

The editor then went back and changed queensberry to queensbury. This is also incorrect, and i believe the editor was doing this out of malice, in order to poision the factual correctness of Wikipedia.

Therefore, i have reverted both series of edits. Fudoreaper 04:05, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] In a court of law

I have seen this term used in courts of law in cases that have nothing to due with boxing. For example the judge used the term in the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial though the court reporter misspelled it "Marcus of Queensbury". This term is almost certainly an analogy to the boxing rules though. If I understand it correctly from my Googling it basically says that even though the lawyers is supposed to do what they can for their client, there are limits to what they can do since they must live within the rules required of them as officers of the court. See this for example. If there is a lawyer around, this might be worth a look. MichaelSH 04:08, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Popular Usage

To indicate "playing by the rules"?

See the following exchange in James Baker's memoirs:

President and Senator Clinton soon followed. He stopped on the way down, motioned me from my seat, and whispered, “You were good in Florida. Really good.”

After the ceremony, he stopped again. “I told those people that if they continued to play by the Marquess of Queensberry rules, you were gonna beat their brains out,” he said sotto voice (sic).

(Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2486989,00.html )

Dehbach 22:00, 5 December 2006 (UTC)