Re: Girl Genius (GG) 7 March 2008

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David McMillan  <spamtrap@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>William F. Adams wrote:
>> ROFLMAOWTFFME!
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>> and all I want to add is that if _anyone_ has a copy of Baron
>> Wulfenbach's monograph on ``how to communicate in the workplace'' I'd
>> like to borrow it.
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>	I noted the bit all "All seven Popes."  I guess Sparkiness made the 
>breakup of the Roman Empire a bit more, er, *fragemented* in the GG
'verse.

Either that, or he means the seven Popes who've held the See of
Rome since he wrote the monograph.  John Paul II reigned for so
long -- twenty-six years --that he may have skewed the perceptions
of those who are young enough that they can't remember any other
Pope.  But his predecessor, JP I, reigned only thirty-three days.
Popes, being generally already old men when elected, don't
generally last long (particularly in the absence of modern
medicine).

So Klaus has been de facto Emperor of Europe for most of Gil's
lifetime; let's guesstimate twenty years.  Considering not only
the state of medicine (abysmal with flashes of brilliance if you
happen to get a Sparky doctor), and the generally unsettled
 state of life in Europe -- and Italy, as we can see from the
Europa Wulfenbach map available from Cafe Press, is NOT part
of the Wulfenbach empire -- I can easily see seven Popes in
twenty years.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]