[UA] Occult Personages (was: Outdated Archetypes)

[David M Jacobs]

At 10:22 AM 24/03/02 +0000, Edward Parsons wrote:

>Regarding the Comte, he was apparently descended from just about every noble
>family in Europe. He was also well known for making diamonds, which he lost
>in bets. Then I presume he made some more, and lost them.

IIRC, back in the 70s, there was a guy in Paris who claimed to be the 
Comte, and had offered to turn lead into gold using a barbecue, live on 
national TV.  One show took him up on it, but when they turned up to start 
filming, the would-be-Comte had just left to tend to "other business".



David M Jacobs
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"'Kevin,' David interrupted, 'what the Germans should have done
was show the Russians a dead cat and ask them to explain it.'

"'That would have stopped the Soviet offensive right there,' I said.
"Zhukov would still be trying to account for the cat's death.'"

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