>mark wrote:
>Well, that is enough for this April Fools Day.
>
oh no it's not - -
There' still this:
Einhard the biographer of Charlemagne
was given a post quite outside his domain,
for shirt size was his forte,
yet he found the King's courtly
endeavours, in error, his task to explain.
jm
>I've always had a feeling, for instance, that
>Einhard the biographer of Charlemagne, got his job in Aachen by mistake.
His
>obsession with the great king's shirt and shoe size betray his origins as a
>tailor. Old Charles was probably a bit hard of hearing when Einhard showed
>up. The king asked the young man what he wanted and Einhard replied that
he
>was there to measure for new clothes. The king thought he said he was
there
>to take notes. I wonder what happened to the new scribe; probably the
origin
>of the "Emperor's New Clothes."
>
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