A quick yet serious question

[Dr. Boogie]

Originally Posted by Vila

Oh come on. You'd think a site like I-Mockary would be celebrating a crazy guy who made himself king.

Obviously SOMEONE hasn't checked out our hilarious Idi Amin minimock.



There are a great many things I have looked up on Wikipedia during an average day at work, but I will never, ever look up the person you keep mentioning.

[Terra]

May I fag this poster up a tad (more)?

[DeadKennedys]

C'mon guys, I know you know about Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim! Alright, I'll fill you in? You remember the big laser, Paracelcus' Sword, you used to SPOILER kill Nemesis at the end of Resident Evil 3? Quit bitching, you knew he was going to die. Yeah, he invented that.

[JediScum]

Emperor Norton?!? That wanna be San Franciscan-piece-of shit-emperor. He's been suceeded, though, he is still "Protector of Mexico". Bill Bixby replaced him in the emperor gig. Then Bixby got cancer and died. It was offered to Jello Biafra but he declined for probably personal reasons. Tried to give to the spirit of Alferd Packer but he's dead, cannibalistic, is hugely celebrated in Colorado and will steal your girlfriend off your lap if you don't watch him.
I've heard the role of "Emperor" has been offered to many.... all have declined for some reason or another.

1) The guy who invented NyQuil. Nobody knows who he/she is.
2) Wolfgang Puck. Hospitalized with a severe burn and so doped on Vicodin he couldn't understand the question.
3) Mike Patton. Unavailable.
4) James Hetfield. Unavailable.
5) This guy i talked to for a couple minutes in Mississippi one time... he seemed into it but refused when it wasn't Antartica.

Hell, i don't know.... what's so cool about Emperor Norton anyway?

[Fathom Zero]

Mike Patton and James Hetfield Mike Patton and James Hetfield Mike Paatton and Jameson Hetfeld

[JediScum]

(I'll get crap for this)

The "bestest" San-Franciscan I've never met, born or imported, is not Hetfield, Patton, or this Emperor Norton.... it is Bill Bixby!

[DeadKennedys]

Originally Posted by JediScum

It was offered to Jello Biafra but he declined for probably personal reasons.

Why would he decline? Didn't he run for mayor?

This thread is the internet equivalent of the inside/you-had-to-be-there/drunk-experience joke. "I was go drunk, and I did this shit, but you had to be there... of course, I can't expect you to understand, cause you don't know my friends and you weren't there." Or how little kids on the internet say "SO MY FRIEND MATT DID THIS, I MEAN WUTS UP WITH THAT" To which many silently reply with "That's wonderful... cunt."

[mburbank]

See, I totally knew she'd post the info.

Bet she first heard about him reading Sandman.

Not that Emperor Norton and Sandman aren't cool, but why not just put in your signature

"I'm awesome and unique".

You wanna write about the emperor Norton? Do so.

You wanna make a status statement about how cool and eccentric you are? Put "I'm awesome and unique". In your signature. It'll come up every time you post and you'll put off getting carpal tunnel.

Bill Bixby had a short lived show called "The Magician" that was kind of awesome.

[mburbank]

AND unique.

[Vila]

Originally Posted by Dr. Boogie

Obviously SOMEONE hasn't checked out our hilarious Idi Amin minimock.

There are a great many things I have looked up on Wikipedia during an average day at work, but I will never, ever look up the person you keep mentioning.

At the peremtory request of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now for the past nine years and ten months of San Francisco, California, declare and proclaim myself Emperor of these U.S., and in virtue of the authority thereby in me vested, do hereby order and direct the representatives of the different States of the Union to assemble in the Musical Hall of this city on the 1st day of February next, then and there to make such alterations in the existing laws of the Union as may ameliorate the evils under which the country is laboring, and thereby cause confidence to exist, both at home and abroad, in our stability and integrity.

September 1859