This one just makes me :rofl:
When the Royal Accountant made a small error in the books, the King's advisors suggested he be fired. After careful consideration, the King decided to give the accountant a raise and send his advisors to the guillotine.
"You say the Norwegians aren't happy about Danish rule? Nonsense!"
Peru does a little adventuring.
While his enemies thought he had died in the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell had, in fact, invented a crude time machine which he used to travel almost 200 years into the future, in order to become Mexico's greatest general ever.
In its early years, English Mexico often found itself at odds with the Castillian USA.
With the aid of the time-traveling General Cromwell, the ambitious President of Mexico, Maximillian Cook, launches three seperate revolutionary wars simultaneously. Brilliant!
In defiance of all odds, common sense, and even the inexorable inertia of history, Serbia shines for one brief moment as the dominant power of the Balkans... before being ruthlessly squashed by Bohemia, Austria, and the Pope.
The London aristocracy finally decides to embrace the Reformation. Man, when the rest of Britain finds out, they are gonna be maaad...
"What do you mean they're winning and offering to surrender at the same time? That crafty Pope, he's up to something. Charge!" (This was literally every single thing I could offer as tribute, and the Ottomans were still refusing. They ended up settling for a White Peace later. :rofl: )
After a heavy night of partying, the Cardinals get a little confused and suggest to the Pope that he needs to become Catholic. Needless to say, he was not amused.
The Pope's mood was not at all improved later that morning when he asked for an update from his finest scholars on their current research, and their response came back, "Dunno".
Finally, when word came in that a Sunni Muslim from the far side of Damascus had declared himself Pope, the real Pope just lost it. The Kingdom of Italy was formed the next day. And we thought he was mad about the French...