Free Range by Bill Whitehead for July 28, 2021

There is a “rash” of that going around.

That’s a nasty case of megalomania you got there.

And there sat Napoleon with his bones apart.

If this is a joke about an admiral with his arm held in this way Bill has it wrong. It was Admiral Horatio Nelson who lost his right arm. In July 1797 Nelson led a doomed assault on the Spanish island of Tenerife in which he was hit in the right arm by a musket ball shortly after stepping ashore. Bleeding heavily, he was taken back to HMS Theseus, where the injured limb was amputated. Nelson defeated Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

But it’s so itchy

Especially when the affected area is Prussia.

It feels like Doc is spine on you.

I always thought the hand in the vest was because Jacques-Louis David could not paint hands.

Diagnosis of a Napoleon complex.

I always thought it was itchy long johns.

Actually it is speculated he had Linitis Plastica, a cancer of the stomach [also called Brinton’s disease or leather bottle stomach] He’s probably holding his stomach in pain.

Drink plenty of water – but not out of the “loo”…

Oh, and to reiterate,

(Angry Napoleon noises)

he was definitely average height for the time.

(upbeat music)