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Other Humor
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Tangs What I Done Larned While Reading Other Strange Tangs
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You know, a fellow with strange reading habits sometimes comes across strange things. This is sort of where I can set some of those things down
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Ann Bolyn, The 2nd Mrs. Henry the 8th
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Dear old Ann. What can we say about her. Beautiful, and obviously smart since she stayed out of Henry's bed until after he was totally besotted with her. Oh I know. How about if I tell you that Ann had six fingers on one hand, and she had an extra nipple too. Yep, three of them suckers. Round about the time Henry decided that it was time to cast her aside for his latest paramour, he was going to use that extra nipple and diget against her in a church court if she resisted the divorce. That opportunity never arose, however, due to the fact that he cut off her head instead.
Speaking of cutting off her head, on the night before her execution Ann called for them to bring a block to her room in the tower so she could practice laying her head down in a seemly manner.
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Hey How about that Pope John the XXIII
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You know,there are popes, and then there are popes. Now Johnny (for the sake of brevity I won't add the XXIII) Where was I...oh yes...now Johnny was a very bad boy. He was a bad pope too. You see John became pope by force. Yep, swords and blood and all that stuff, because he was a pirate, which means that as popes went at that time (1410), he was honest enough to admit that he really was a thief. Alas, his papacy was short lived, only five years, because narrow minded people put him on trial. 54 charges, ranging from rape and murder and sodomy and incest and, oh yes, piracy. 16 charges were not pressed against him because they were "of the most indescribable depravity." Now a person has to wonder what, during a time when people were impaled on stakes, burned on stakes, racked, given the pear of agony, and lots of other minor discomforts, what did they consider indiscribably depraved? Inquiring minds want to know.
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What the F***
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Yes, what the F. An illustrious history, the F word, and quite popular too. The movie Scarface used it 206 times, but that was just a pittance. Casino did Scarface more than twice better, 442 times.
And that brings up the question of where did it come from. Suppodedly the F word originated from the French fear of English longbowmen. The yew longbow was so feared that when English bowmen were captured their center string plucking finger was cut off. Thus, defiant bowmen, when surrounded by the French, would raise up their middle finger and shout "Pluck Yew!"
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