Three French Heads
December 23, 2021 5:46 AM Subscribe
Tired of maids a-milking and lords a-leaping? Time to make revolutionary shifts in your Christmas gift-giving, with the Twelve Days of Thermidor. (Cute kid cameo too.)
Ah, revolutionary decimal time, the Swatch Internet Time of its day.
posted by phooky at 6:50 AM on December 23, 2021
posted by phooky at 6:50 AM on December 23, 2021
Yesterday was, in the revolutionary calendar, tridi 3 Nivôse in the year of the Republic CCXXX - a day set aside for the celebration of bitumen.
The French revolutionaries may have gone a little far for some tastes, but their respect for highly viscous, sticky petroleum byproducts was unsurpassed.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 8:42 AM on December 23, 2021 [5 favorites]
The French revolutionaries may have gone a little far for some tastes, but their respect for highly viscous, sticky petroleum byproducts was unsurpassed.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 8:42 AM on December 23, 2021 [5 favorites]
What day does pitchblende get its due?
posted by SoberHighland at 10:49 AM on December 23, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by SoberHighland at 10:49 AM on December 23, 2021 [1 favorite]
This is lovely! But I'm not sure that's going to be enough guillotines.
posted by mersen at 12:38 PM on December 23, 2021
posted by mersen at 12:38 PM on December 23, 2021
Seven sans culotte-ing
What is going on? How does one sans-culotte? Who is doing it? Seven of the six dismayed priests? Someone named Seven?
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 2:15 PM on December 23, 2021
I believe the writers are mildly referencing the Thermidorian Reaction and the days prior.
sans culotte-ing refers to those clockwork orange like folk. They were being killed by summer of 1794.
FIVE JAC-O-BINS...they too were dying by thermidor with the Incorruptible' meeting his end in those six days but most likely a rhyme mash-up.
posted by clavdivs at 6:31 PM on December 23, 2021 [1 favorite]
sans culotte-ing refers to those clockwork orange like folk. They were being killed by summer of 1794.
FIVE JAC-O-BINS...they too were dying by thermidor with the Incorruptible' meeting his end in those six days but most likely a rhyme mash-up.
posted by clavdivs at 6:31 PM on December 23, 2021 [1 favorite]
It's not funny enough to outweigh the subject matter.
I say that as someone with a taste for black humor.
posted by BWA at 6:38 AM on December 24, 2021
I say that as someone with a taste for black humor.
posted by BWA at 6:38 AM on December 24, 2021
that the extreme left wing became the authoritarian wing flailing its murderous way towards Napoleon, fucking pricless comedy gold.
posted by clavdivs at 11:00 AM on December 24, 2021
posted by clavdivs at 11:00 AM on December 24, 2021
For those interested in learning about the French Revolution in a looong series of podcasts, I recommend Mike Duncan's fabulous Revolutions podcast, available anywhere you get your fresh podcast content.
posted by Harald74 at 12:13 AM on December 27, 2021
posted by Harald74 at 12:13 AM on December 27, 2021
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