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Charles V is my fourteenth great grandfather.

The one who ruined the economy when he flooded the European market with looted Peruvian gold?  The one whose reign was market by enormously expensive and continuous warfare?  The one who privatized many erstwhile government endeavors in order to save money, only to lose it because these privateers where exempt from paying taxes?  The one whose inability to sustain a campaign against a Muslim military force left his successor with a serious mess to clean up?  The one whose legacy was a polarized, fragmented empire on the brink of bankruptcy?  

Wait, maybe I'm thinking about George W. Bush.  

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[angus]

Charles V is my fourteenth great grandfather.

The one who ruined the economy when he flooded the European market with looted Peruvian gold?  The one whose reign was market by enormously expensive and continuous warfare?  The one who privatized many erstwhile government endeavors in order to save money, only to lose it because these privateers where exempt from paying taxes?  The one whose inability to sustain a campaign against a Muslim military force left his successor with a serious mess to clean up?  The one whose legacy was a polarized, fragmented empire on the brink of bankruptcy?  

Wait, maybe I'm thinking about George W. Bush.  

Welcome aboard!

That's actually pretty funny coming from someone who's a big fan of Charles V (duh, it's my username)

He makes a decent candy bar too.  It's called Carlos Quinto and it has a picture on the wrapper of him with a pointy little van dyke beard wearing a cheesy Arthurian crown.  I've only seen them in Mexico.

"El Rey de los Chocolates" is the logo.  I suppose he's credited with introducing chocolate to the Imperial European courts.  I guess they decided that "We geeve you chocolate, you geeve us smallpox;  Everybody weens." would not have been such a catchy marketing tool.