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After not having learned much at all about humility from Helen Keller, Frederick is going to have a go about learning the basics of survival from one of the toughest, survivingest men in the annals of history. The only problem is that it is often hard to survive if you have no notion of how danger, you know, works… The Summer Frederickapalooza continues in The Training of a Fop 102: The Import of Survival.
– The Count and Geoff
Theodore Roosevelt was hard core. Both his wife and his mother died on Valentine’s Day in 1884. His response was to ride into the most desolate patch of the midwest he could find and just wander. Eventually, he became a sort of wild west deputy sheriff. He hunted down three criminals who had made the unwise decision to steal the boat of Theodore God Damn Roosevelt, captured them single handed, and then dragged them overland to the nearest center of law and order, going without rest for two days and nights.
He was shot in the middle of a political appearance, but refused medical attention until after he had a chance to finish the rest of his speech.
Like I said, Hard Core.
– Count Dolby von Luckner
Yes. Please enjoy our Fop Training episodes while I look for a house to live in. The main story and colors will return when I am no longer a vagrant.
But enough about my current hobo status!
Here is an interesting Frederick and Voltaire fact, sent to me by a friend, who found this on the wikipedia entry on rebus:
It is written that when Voltaire was the guest of Frederick the Great at Sanssouci Palace, they exchanged puzzle notes. Frederick sent over a page with two picture blocks on it: two hands below the letter “P”, and then the number 100 below a picture of a handsaw, all followed by a question mark. Voltaire replied with: Ga!
Both messages were rebuses in the French language: deux mains sous Pé, cent sous scie? (= demain souper, Sanssouci?, “supper tomorrow, Sanssouci?”); reply: Gé grand, a petit (= j’ai grand appétit!, “I am very hungry!”).
–Geoff
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The Frederick Summer Spectacular Begins! As Peter the Great is preparing to unwittingly devour Newton, we take a break from the story of How The Scientific Revolution Done Got Saved. Instead, step back to Frederick’s first days with Chapeau as Voltaire attempts to instruct him in the proper virtues of the hero. Today, and all through the month of August we see the grueling road Frederick had to walk before he could truly call himself the Zeitsgeschlaeger.
Historical Guest Stars aplenty!
A new Recommended Reads page!
New! New! New! If you’ve slipped off the wagon, now’s the time to get back on. Come with us back to where it all began. It’s the first stirring episode of The Training of a Fop!
– The Count and Geoff
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