From the SWNID Files: Top Ten Obscure Facts About the Protestant Reformation

On a day that is slow for news and busy for SWNID, we offer something from our files that fits our criterion for publication on this blog (i.e., utterly amusing to the blogger, regardless of what gentle readers might think). As we recall, this list was a group production by ourself and some colleagues, though our aged memory is imperfect on this point. We also aver that the last point will be opaque except to denizens of the University of East Price Hill, where we serve.

Top Ten Obscure Facts About the Protestant Reformation

10. What Luther wrote with chalk in Latin on that table was not "This is my body" but 'large, thick-crust, sausage, onions and extra cheese."

9. Some of the polygamists in Munster escaped and made their way to Utah.

8. Calvin had to file for an extension when he missed the deadline for submitting the Institutes.

7. Henry the Eighth's marital misadventures were deemed by the pope "not to rise to the level of an impeachable offense."

6. Thesis number 91: "Tastes great." Thesis number 92: "Less filling."

5. The Vatican briefly experimented with the Powerball Lottery before opting for the sale of indulgences to finance St. Peter's.

4. The Council of Trent would have been finished 18 months sooner had the network not kept crashing.

3. The Diet of Worms did not taste like chicken.
2. Papal bulls have no horns.

1. Melanchthon didn't know Jack.