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13 March 2013

New Pope Faces First Test

"Variously known as the sedia stercoraria – which translates as the 'dung chair'– or rather more understandably, as the 'pierced chair', this then was the object used to test the sex of newly installed popes... Any candidate chosen by his peers to occupy the papal throne was required, before his election could be verified, to sit on this elaborate seat while a young cardinal took advantage of the design to touch his testicles." [Reference]

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the reference, go Pope Joan!

Anonymous said...

as in smaller and hairless?