Of course, Newton is exaggerating here. Debs was the Socialist candidate, not the Communist candidate. Potsdam, the capital of Brandenburg, was more or less a joyless mudhole when Frederick the Great came to power. By the time he left, he […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Oh, British foodstuffs…. Perhaps you make for too easy a punchline.
Fear not readers, we hadn’t somehow forgotten that Frederick is in possession of a chapeau that could have gotten him out of prison easily. We just figured that the best time to do some prison gags was whle Frederick was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
De Sade? Did he just say DE SADE? Indeed, he did. Really, if you’re powering a device called the Libido Gate without using the soul of a wanton eighteenth century libertine/philosopher, then you might as well just not power it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Technically, this cemetery holds all of the remains of de Sade save for his head. This was exhumed by phrenologists for examination, the results of which study placed phrenology firmly on a rigorous footing, distancing it from other, clearly absurd, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dalí was not, in fact, a Moor. Newton is just treating Spaniards with a pejorative disdain.
There are as few as one but as many as two errors in today’s offering. I hereby offer an official Not Remotely A Prize to the first person to identify both through the most vaunted medium of electronic mail. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Errors, huh? Newton is somewhat incorrect in his statements of time-travel causality (at least how they apply to him and Frederick), but I’ll let him slide since he doesn’t know all the rules yet. However, it would be a logical […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh man. Looks like we are heading into a run of Geoff-scripted episodes. Also, someone asked me why, unlike most other webcomics, we here at Frederick the Great don’t update at midnight Eastern Time but instead wait until midnight Pacific […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, no winners of the Not Remotely A Prize last week, I am sad to report. While some correctly noted that there was something a little screwy about the double integral, nobody happened to see that Salvador Dali is entirely […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…