Oh, Silesia. One of Frederick’s first acts upon becoming King in 1740 was to invade the Austrian province of Silesia, pretty much without any legal authority or rightful claim whatsoever. Part of it was his desire to cut a dashing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I would have said, “Shitting on Prussia,” but I guess that is just me. Less alliterative, true, but perhaps more direct.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you the first FtG mini-boss: Salvador Dali… *Mega Man 2 Level Intro / Boss Reveal Fanfare* Why Dali? Perhaps because I looked at Geoff’s innocent, hopeful face and couldn’t deny him his dream of entire […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is true. When I visited the Teatro-Museo Dalí in Figueres, Spain, I was fascinated by (what is probably) a crocodile with a clock in its belly. Somehow, these clockwork reptiles failed to loosen their grip on my imagination, became […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Was the historical Frederick a bisexual? Every historian feels obliged to take up a position on the subject, and some have subsumed their entire existence as individuals to the advancement of their Frederick Was/Wasn’t Gay arguments. I personally don’t overly […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I still don’t get the salted almonds joke.
I wrote this particular episode a few months ago, when Tony Gwynn was merely a PROSPECTIVE Hall-of-Famer. Growing up in San Diego in the late 80s, Tony Gwynn rated on the schoolyard hierarchy of demi-gods somewhere above M.C. Hammer and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just realized that I messed up and typed “Salvadore” instead of “Salvador” in the title of this episode. Oh well. I grew up in a harsh arctic land where sports such as baseball did not exist, so letting The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Unlike the bit about Salvador Dali’s career as an accounting wunderkind, the story of Newton’s dressing up in disguises to catch counterfeiters is not something we dragged from the tortured realms of our yelping fancy. Why the Royal Mint job? […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Incompetence is funny. “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein” wouldn’t be the classic that it is if either Bud or Lou had a clue about what was going on. The movie would have been about five minutes long and shown in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…