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he has 2 and they dangle nicely
as many of you know, i spent my formative years living in a trappist priory. while i am no longer affiliated with that order or the religion that it practices, i am still besieged from time to time with mnemonic flashes of arcane catholic lore. take yesterday for example when a friend of mine who restores antique furniture showed me his chaise percée, and all i could think of was the pope and his dangling holy testicles.
according to catholic rumormill, after the [potentially] mythical pope joan started giving birth to a baby during a papal mass and everyone realised that they had a reverse crying game situation on their hands—the college of cardinals had to devise some scheme to authenticate the masculinity of the next pope »
All subsequent popes were then supposedly subjected to an examination whereby, having sat on a dung chair containing a hole called sedia stercoraria, a cardinal had to reach up and establish that the new pope had testicles, before solemnly announcing “Duos habet et bene pendentes” — “He has two, and they dangle nicely.
while two such papal chairs do exist (one is in the louvre and the other is still in st. peter’s basilica), nobody—not even snopes dot com—can say whether or not this comically absurd practice is true, untrue or mega-true.
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see also: deuteronomy 23:1](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lb9g38RTFz1qzrip0o1_500.png)
he has 2 and they dangle nicely
as many of you know, i spent my formative years living in a trappist priory. while i am no longer affiliated with that order or the religion that it practices, i am still besieged from time to time with mnemonic flashes of arcane catholic lore. take yesterday for example when a friend of mine who restores antique furniture showed me his chaise percée, and all i could think of was the pope and his dangling holy testicles.
according to catholic rumormill, after the [potentially] mythical pope joan started giving birth to a baby during a papal mass and everyone realised that they had a reverse crying game situation on their hands—the college of cardinals had to devise some scheme to authenticate the masculinity of the next pope »
All subsequent popes were then supposedly subjected to an examination whereby, having sat on a dung chair containing a hole called sedia stercoraria, a cardinal had to reach up and establish that the new pope had testicles, before solemnly announcing “Duos habet et bene pendentes” — “He has two, and they dangle nicely.
while two such papal chairs do exist (one is in the louvre and the other is still in st. peter’s basilica), nobody—not even snopes dot com—can say whether or not this comically absurd practice is true, untrue or mega-true.
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see also: deuteronomy 23:1
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