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So, Frederick took a clock in which Louis XIV had secretly hidden his fantastically terrible battle plan for Malplaquet. Repenting of it, he brought it back, but for reasons known only to Frederick, he decided to go back to BEFORE he took the clock. So, then there were two clocks, one with battle plans, the other without. Then a peasant came in with a clock of his own. Duet becomes Trio!! It’s the last week of our Holiday Special, and there Will Be Consequences!
– The Count and Geoff
Sure, the Louis line was pretty bad when it came to its floosying about, but I think the overall award for Most Wenching By A Line of Monarchs Sharing the Same Name has to go to the Georges of England. Georges One, Two, and Four were all philanderers on a simply breathtaking scale. George III probably would have been too if his mother, the dreaded Augusta, hadn’t isolated him from basically all human contact for the first twenty odd years of his life. Even then, once his mind started to go, the genes reasserted themselves and his tendency to publicly uncover his genitals at inopportune moments (which begs the question: when IS the opportune moment to publicly uncover one’s genitals?) was a lingering embarrassment of the last decade or so of his reign.
See you all in 2009!
– Count Dolby von Luckner
Some of you might be wondering why the second clock didn’t disappear once Frederick convinced himself not to steal it. That might well have been the case had Frederick not first taken the clock to the Voltaire Stasis Year, thereby extending to it the same protection against chrono-spatial disturbance that Delaflotte is currently enjoying! Theoretically, then, once the powers stop maintaining the Stasis Year, this entire Holiday Special will cease to exist.
Sniff.
– Count Dolby von Luckner