But it was quite clear that Mr Trimble would have refused to accept a joint award with Mr Adams and both communities had to be represented on the rostrum.
But, ultimately, the former is a group of your friends telling people that a game they have not seen either will be awesome, and the other is often a series of rostrum camera shots of concept art and non-interactive 3D renders.
And it didn't subside not while Lindbergh stood silently at the Philadelphia rostrum and heard himself being cheered once again as the nation's savior, nor when he gave the speech accepting his party's nomination and with it the mandate to keep America out of the European war.
The boulevard rises like a raking stage, and framed by the green rostrum at right, balconies that furiously recede at left, and a prosceniumlike black band and red banner that compress the image at center dissolves in the distance as the parade lurches to the right and disappears.
The likelihood that the Internal Revenue Service would open an investigation against every major American Jewish organization for daring to invite Palin to a rally opposing Ahmadinejad's appearance at the UN and Iran's stated intention of annihilating Israel is just slightly smaller than the prospect of Ahmadinejad wrapping himself in an Israeli flag and singing "Hatikva" on the UN rostrum.