Re: Girl Genius (GG) 7 March 2008

In message <Jxq8My.Gu1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Dorothy J Heydt 
<djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>In article <4I-dnfviS9oKxkfanZ2dnUVZ_jWdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>David McMillan  <spamtrap@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>William F. Adams wrote:
>>> ROFLMAOWTFFME!
>>>
>>> I've really enjoyed this bit w/ Gil,
>>>
>>> s
>>>
>>> p
>>>
>>> o
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>>> i
>>>
>>> l
>>>
>>> e
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>>> r
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>>> s
>>>
>>> p
>>>
>>> a
>>>
>>> c
>>>
>>> e
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>      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.

If that was the case I think he would more likely have phrased it as 
"the last seven popes", but it's possible that it's an abbreviated form 
of "all seven popes since it was written".
>
>Dorothy J. Heydt
>Albany, California
>djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
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