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  1. says

    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.

  3. Flex says

    What!

    A second Emperor Norton!

    Any more and we’ll have to open up our own ward next to the Napoleons.

    Cheers,

  4. A Teapot says

    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…

  5. natural cynic says

    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.

  10. AbsolutelyNoFaith says

    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

  11. WilCo says

    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…

  16. Sceptical Chymist says

    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!

  17. BlueIndependent says

    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!

  18. David Marjanović says

    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.

  19. David Marjanović says

    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.

  23. says

    natural cynic:

    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.

    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.

  26. says

    slavdude:

    Posers! I am the REAL Joshua Abraham Norton I!

    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.

  27. anomalous4 says

    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!

  29. says

    I am yet another Norton… I have to repeat JT’s earlier question: “What does this say about P.Z.’s readers?”

  30. Leslie in CA says

    I’m the REAL Caligula, and I have the videos to prove it…

    Thou liest! I am Caligula, and I have the horse to prove it.

  32. says

    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*.

  33. RyanG says

    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?

  34. Bob O'H says

    Pah! Amateurs. You should go the whole way with your revenge:

    You are Pope Stephen VII … or possibly VI!

    Made Bishop of Agagni by Pope Formosus, you became Pope yourself in 896 by putting your immediate predecessor, Boniface VI, to death. Your reign lasted all of fourteen months. However, you firmly assured your place in history by putting the rotting corpse of the aforementioned Formosus on trial in the splendidly named Synod Horrenda. Naturally, Formosus was clad in full papal vestments. Having dug up the stinking remains once already, you proceeded to have them found guilty, reburied, re-exhumed, relieved of the three fingers of the right hand used in consecrations and finally thrown into the Tiber. All ordinations performed by the luckless Formosus were annulled. After this delightful display of gratitude, you were promptly strangled, paving the way for an increasingly short-lived series of successors and the reinstatement, dereinstatement and rereinstatement of Formosus’ Papal deeds.

    Pope Bob

  36. says

    Nes:

    I am yet another Norton… I have to repeat JT’s earlier question: “What does this say about P.Z.’s readers?”

    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).

  37. says

    “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.