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There is an interesting parallel that emerges immediately between Charles XII and Maxwell, that being that near the end of his life Charles was placed under house arrest in Istanbul. He escaped but died attempting to rebuild his kingdom.

That aside, the obvious answer to this joke is to make it a dig at ol' Charles (any other king would call that fool the second making the first one Charles XII, or some variation on that model), but I think that's too obvious.

EDIT: whoops, didn't notice that somebody had already quoted.

**Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:23 am

f · Veteran Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 105

cards?

**Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:30 pm

grumpyboy · Unfettered Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660

update on Who is Max?

**Posted:** Wed Jun 06, 2007 1:24 am

f · Veteran Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 105

3073 and different page

**Posted:** Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:36 am

Stormalong

From Vjails blog:

**Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:08 am

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Jimmy has fancy plans, and pants to match.

trina5775

join in?

**Posted:** Fri Jun 08, 2007 4:27 pm

Transtar

trina5775

joining

**Posted:** Fri Jun 08, 2007 4:42 pm

trina5775

charlesXII and ect

**Posted:** Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:26 pm

Transtar

I tried the phone numbers of the bar in octal and the regular number on the main page.

~~Maybe I'll try those numbers as their own website.~~ Nope no luck

**Posted:** Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:53 pm

subflea · Greenhorn Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 8

There is a new post on Vjail's blog.

http://vjails.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-to-do-with-3073.html

**Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2007 2:57 pm

Lycentia · Greenhorn Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 7

Wiki says about King Charles XII

Apart from being a monarch, the King's interests included mathematics,
and anything that would be beneficial to his warlike purposes. He is attributed as having invented an octal numeral system, which he considered more suitable for war purposes because all the boxes used for materials such as gunpowder were cubic. According to a report by contemporary scientist Emanuel Swedenborg, the King had sketched down a model of his thought on a piece of paper and handed it to him at their meeting in Lund in 1716. The paper was reportedly still in existence a hundred years later, but has since been lost.

under Emanuel Swedenborg

In contrast, one of the most prominent Swedish authors of Swedenborg's day, Johan Henrik Kellgren, called Swedenborg "nothing but a fool"

Might have something to do with the riddle about the fool since the answer vjails posted 3073 had to do with the octal number system and the page we got the riddle on was called lost.

**Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:13 am

Big_Larry

**Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:16 am

misschris · Guest

charles XII

**Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:08 pm

LandMASTER! · Veteran Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 81 Location: Tampa, FL

Hi there. New here, but interested in this game.

I googled 3073 swedenborg and got this site:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/swd/sd/sd32.htm

and the verse for 3073 is:

Several times it was granted me to be present with those who spoke; and it appeared to me that I led them, and they did not know it; afterwards they observed it; hence may be known how one leads another, and speaks with another, and nothing else is perceived than that he speaks in whom is the thought and attention. - 1748, September 6.

**Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:05 am