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Posted on: December 13, 2006 11:35 AM, by PZ Myers
Although, actually, I was hoping to get Caligula, like The Countess.
(Honestly, I warned you. Keep voting.)
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I'm Joshua Abraham Norton, the first and only Emperor of the United States of America!
Err...ummm, that's what the test told me, BTW. I don't really believe that, of course.
Now I must be off, to consult w/my Parliament - if I can find that dratted tophat today.
Posted by: Krystalline Apostate | December 13, 2006 11:55 AM
Charles the VI, the beloved Mad King of France.
But Tesla for PZ? Did he have an animal related trauma, as Tesla had with his brother's poodle?
Posted by: Jonathan Badger | December 13, 2006 12:04 PM
What!
A second Emperor Norton!
Any more and we'll have to open up our own ward next to the Napoleons.
Cheers,
Posted by: Flex | December 13, 2006 12:09 PM
You are Charles VI of France, also known as Charles the Mad or Charles the Well-Beloved!
Spot on! I actually am King Charles VI! That's spooky...
Posted by: A Teapot | December 13, 2006 12:24 PM
Make way for the real Emperor Norton [or at least the reincarnation]. After all I left my placenta in San Francisco.
I would like to thank Flex and KA for holding my place and entertaining the rabble until I arrived. For their magnanimity, I would like to grant Flex the title of Grand Duke of Golden Gate Park and the Barony of Sausalito will be bestowed upon Krystyalline Apostate.
Posted by: natural cynic | December 13, 2006 12:25 PM
You can't be Charles the VI. I'm Charles the VI. Hmmm I doth detect an imposter
Posted by: JamesR | December 13, 2006 12:31 PM
The test said that I'm also Charles VI, but there's no impostor problem here.
I'm really Napoleon.
Posted by: The Disgruntled Chemist | December 13, 2006 12:36 PM
Ha!! A third Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton. What does this say about P.Z.'s readers?
Posted by: JT | December 13, 2006 12:39 PM
Same here...
Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.
Posted by: Steve_C | December 13, 2006 12:51 PM
I'm Ludwig II, the Swan King of Bavaria, and I've got, by far, the coolest castles, so there!
You are Ludwig II, the Swan King of Bavaria!
Born with the name of Otto, you became Ludwig at the request of your grandfather, King Ludwig I, because you were born on his birthday. You became Crown Prince at the tender age of 3, and soon after stole a purse from a shop on the basis that everything in Bavaria belonged to you. Tragedy struck when your pet tortoise was taken away; relatives thought the six-year-old prince was too attached to it. Your childhood was lonely and formal. Once, you were prevented from beheading your younger brother by the timeous arrival of a court official. From the age of 14 you suffered from hallucinations.
Despite striking an imposing figure with your great height and good looks, your speeches were pompous to the point of incomprehensibility. You became even more of a recluse, often spending hours reading poetry in a seashell-shaped boat in your electrically-illuminated underground grotto.
You are most famous for building three fairytale castles - Linderhof, Neuschwanstein and Herrenchiemsee - at tremendous public expense. Declared insane and confined to your bedroom by concerned (and embarrassed) subjects, you escaped on 13 June 1886, but were later found drowned with your physician in Lake Stamberg in mysterious circumstances. [/I]
How did they know? Especially about the point about my speeches being pompous to the point of incomprehensibility. I am a former college professor in art history, after all.
ANF
Posted by: AbsolutelyNoFaith | December 13, 2006 12:59 PM
Curious. I thought this was about John Hurt at first, who played Caligula in the BBC production of "I, Claudius" and the Countess in "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues." Now on to Kilimanjaro...
Posted by: WilCo | December 13, 2006 1:08 PM
What's going on in that photo?
Posted by: Adam | December 13, 2006 1:16 PM
Errr, PZ, shouldn't you be correcting papers or discovering a new squid or something?
Posted by: tikistitch | December 13, 2006 1:22 PM
Yes, and that's the real reason the evolution of vascular systems article isn't done yet.
Posted by: PZ Myers | December 13, 2006 1:30 PM
Impostors! I'm Emperor Norton!
Posted by: SteveC | December 13, 2006 1:35 PM
Adam: The photo is a double exposure of Nikola Tesla's "magnifying transmitter" in action at his Colorado Springs lab. Tesla, of course, was not next to this enormous Tesla Coil while it was in operation, or he would have been fried.. Even Tesla was not that crazy. He claimed that with this equipment he succeded in burning out the Colorado Springs power station, by feeding back (low frequency RF) power back down the power lines. This did not endear him to the power station people! Tesla claimed to be able to tranmit large amounts of power, and not just information, through long distances with his invention, but it now appears that he failed to distinguish between near-field and far-field electromagnetic propagation effects. Regardless of this, and the fact that he still has a cult following, the man had style!
Posted by: Sceptical Chymist | December 13, 2006 1:48 PM
I too am the sad sack of a man that was Charles the 6th of France. All ya'll fake-Chuckies are stealing me limelights!
Posted by: BlueIndependent | December 13, 2006 2:05 PM
Perhaps important to notice that Ludwig II was gay. Of course nobody around him, he himself included, got to terms with that, which certainly explains part of the craziness.
Posted by: David Marjanović | December 13, 2006 2:13 PM
William John Cavendish-Bentinck-Scott, the Fifth Duke of Portland.
Posted by: Hans | December 13, 2006 2:19 PM
I also got Nicola Tesla. I'm starting on my death ray as soon as I get home.
Posted by: Deepsix | December 13, 2006 2:22 PM
I'm the REAL Caligula, and I have the videos to prove it...
Posted by: Milo Johnson | December 13, 2006 2:38 PM
natural cynic:
Most gracious sir, I assure you, I am the original title-holder of that castle in the sky: the disembodied voices of my cabinet have told me so.
Posted by: Krystalline Apostate | December 13, 2006 2:45 PM
So I'm the sixth Emperor Norton. Sigh...so unoriginal.
Posted by: Leon | December 13, 2006 3:34 PM
Posers! I am the REAL Joshua Abraham Norton I!
Posted by: slavdude | December 13, 2006 3:41 PM
slavdude:
I hereby submit that we put it to a vote. I, as Emperor, of course, reserve the divine right to veto anything I disaprove of.
So there.
Posted by: Krystalline Apostate | December 13, 2006 4:55 PM
Another Crazy Charlie here......... BOO! HISS! I demand a recount! In the next life I wanna be Ludwig, so I can live in Neuschwanstein Castle, or Norton, so I can live in San Francisco for free!
Posted by: anomalous4 | December 13, 2006 5:14 PM
Ha, I'm the real Emperor Norton. Bow down before me.
Posted by: Jim Norton | December 13, 2006 6:03 PM
I am yet another Norton... I have to repeat JT's earlier question: "What does this say about P.Z.'s readers?"
Posted by: Nes | December 13, 2006 6:16 PM
Thou liest! I am Caligula, and I have the horse to prove it.
Posted by: Leslie in CA | December 13, 2006 8:31 PM
Why yes, i do believe fools and planets need to go.
Tesla all the way.
Posted by: Alex | December 13, 2006 10:39 PM
I'm William John Cavendish-Bentinck-Scott, the 5th Duke of Portland.
I had a pink underground ballroom.
And, er, that's all I'm gonna say about *that*.
Posted by: tikistitch | December 13, 2006 11:21 PM
I'm Emperor Norton, yes I'm the real Norton
All you other Emperor Nortons are just imitating
So won't the real Emperor Norton please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up?
Posted by: RyanG | December 14, 2006 1:48 AM
Pah! Amateurs. You should go the whole way with your revenge:
Pope Bob
Posted by: Bob O'H | December 14, 2006 3:41 AM
I'm Caligula!
No! I'm Caligula!
No he's not! I'm Caligula...(et cetera)
Posted by: Deacon Barry | December 14, 2006 8:37 AM
Nes:
Well, at the least the Nortons are mostly harmless.
I won't touch the commentary on all the Caligulas unless I'm wearing a full body condom, though. (hehehehe).
Posted by: Krystalline Apostate | December 14, 2006 4:06 PM
"You are Pope Stephen VII ... or possibly VI!" A pope? Yikes, I guess that makes me a possible antiChrist, which isn't so bad ...
I see we have one schismatic heretic who has tried to usurp my papal goodness ... er, evilness.
Posted by: Keith Douglas | December 15, 2006 1:31 PM