The Magnitude of the Problem
The Czar is not suggesting anything here.
But the Mandarin was making strawberry shortbread for everyone at the Castle tonight.
GorT cancelled at the last minute, and went to his real home for a Charles in Charge marathon on television; as you know, it just isn’t the same if you Tivo it.
This honked Mandy’s cheese, who wound up throwing out a fair amount of shortbread.
GorT, when not at the Castle, resides in Washington, DC.
And DC was hit by a small earthquake today. Just enough to topple a knee-less giant robot over.
And the inscrutable Mandarin has an earthquake machine at his disposal.
Well, perhaps the Czar is suggesting something here.
Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.