God Awful Things

I was once informed of the fact that the pope’s chair has a hole in the bottom so that the cardinals, or whomever, can grab the popes balls and verify he is a man and not a woman… This due to Pope Joan

John Anglicus, born at Mainz, was pope for two years, seven months and four days, and died in Rome, after which there was a vacancy in the papacy of one month. It is claimed that this John was a woman, who as a girl had been led to Athens dressed in the clothes of a man by a certain lover of hers. There she became proficient in a diversity of branches of knowledge, until she had no equal, and afterwards in Rome, she taught the liberal arts and had great masters among her students and audience. A high opinion of her life and learning arose in the city, and she was chosen for pope. While pope, however, she became pregnant by her companion. Through ignorance of the exact time when the birth was expected, she was delivered of a child while in procession from St Peter’s to the Lateran, in a lane once named Via Sacra (the sacred way) but now known as the “shunned street” between the Colisseum and St Clement’s church.

Recently I was told of the 42 Midgets vs 1 Lion.. this provided a great source of entertainment… what other things would I like to see 42 midgets fight, a killer whale, a hippo, a freshwater alligator… how sad that it is false.. Well, I mean, its good that they didn’t die, but something else did die, a little magic left in this world.. 

Oh well, at least we still have Cambodian Zombies