"when the decision was made most of those present were content with the outcome"

Footnote 1 :- Contary to the above statement the Guru was not content with the outcome of those chosen to build the great conceit. It is quite possible by this time no outcome at all could have made him happy. His seeming acquiescence to that days outcome owed more to the fact that he was now completely without power, authority or even opinion so that to go with the majority opinion would at least give the appearance of him having some significance. When discussions about building the Grand Machine began it soon became apparent that when the Wizard and Gurus oppinions were sought it was mere lip service. So many unknowlegeable and misguided lofty cooks were contriving this broth that it was sure to be a haphazard mess. Had The Wizard and the Guru not been banished prior to the delivery of this great machine they would most surely have tossed out many parts and stripped it to bare essentials. In fact it had become a suspician and then a realisation that this great machine's main purpose was to destroy all before it including machines built by the Guru and his friends and predecessors. That this was a machine for the talentless FUBKU to ride hither and thither honking it's oversized horn in an endeavour to disguise his meagre abilities was also clear. Long before these discussions began the Guru was in posession of decent machines to perform the same job. Shortly after being banished from Sadims kingdom he was obliged to dust off these machines and put them to use again. Goldbird also crafted for the Guru some new machines and the Guru found by the roadside and repaired others. He also chanced upon some "Honest Condiments" (FLOSS) which were also put to good use. These simple and effective machines have outperformed and outlasted the "Great Machine" which was costly to run and received little of the necessary maintainence. The Guru had long been of the opinion that the less complicated a machine the more likely it would be to give good and trouble free service. Even in the day when there is a better mouse trap it is a simpler mouse trap. Sadim had ordered the ridiculous contraption of many visual jokes and childrens games. So, the Guru was not one of those "content" with the outcome that day. Indeed there had been another bidder to build the great machine which took his fancy but he had been over-ruled not on the grounds of the proposed machine but on some other lofty principle which was hard to comprehend. In fact the winners of the contract although not without talent and skill had been granted the work on flawed design documents, conceited and lofty notions that had little to do the work at hand and a will to use the machine for purposes which were not all for the general good but contained some malicious and evil intent.