I’m no historian, but I dig Martin Luther’s groovy hat… and as for that “I have a dream” speech… wow.
The Reformation: Time For a Reappraisal?
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They don’t make monks like that any more. Which, given that he was a ferocious anti-semite, is prolly a good thing.
He’d probably still find a few nice friends in the monasteries of the Irish Republic or Western Scotland.
He’s got Ninety-Five Theses, but the Lord Ain’t One.
I read somewhere that he suffered dreadfully from haemorrhoids all his life. As did Napoleon.
95 theses – wow. It took me six years to write the one.
Dude musta skimped on the footnotes.
Marx had boils on his bum
Hitler only had one boil.
I preferred then when they were the Western Schism
Oh, you! (*pushes retropath2 playfully in chest*)
I can’t stand it when people start banging on about their dreams.
“And I have a dreammmm…… I have an exam in five minutes and I’m on the wrong bus, completely naked”
My usual anxiety dream is that I haven’t finished an essay or assignment. Don’t know what the essay is on, or the course it is part of.
Perhaps it’s on The Reformation. That’d round things up here nicely.
I had a dream last night I was eating a giant marshmallow. I woke up to find I’d eaten a giant marshmallow.
Mine is that I’m sitting in the back of a car, zooming along a narrow, downhill woodland road and there’s nobody in the driver’s seat.
Dude, you’re in, like, a foreign country… serious ‘mare!
Re: I have a dream; especially when they are tinny bing bang bong candyfloss, or however it goes, when they do it
It’s hammer time.
– Knock-knock-knock-knock…
– WHO IS IT?
– It’s me… Martin! Open up! I’ve got the theses!
– WHO??
– Come on, man! I think the nuns saw me comin’ here!
– MARTIN’S NOT HERE!
Man’s voice: Knock knock!
Nun in bath: Who is it?
Man’s voice: The blind man
Nun in bath: Why did you say knock knock?
Man’s voice: I’m blind, not dumb
Whaddya get if you cross Spinal Tap with Sister Act? Nun more black.
Alt. ending:
Nun in bath: Why did you say knock knock?
Main’s voice: I’ve come to fit the blinds to the bathroom window.
Mm, yes, but I’m not sure changing it to Main’s voice really adds to the narrative.
Where’s the soap?
She went of her own accord.
It’s your turn in the barrel.
My wife didn’t believe me when I told her I could make a bicycle out of spaghetti.
You should have seen her face when I rode straight pasta.
Oh I say.
I just read the band biography on Wiki. Backing singer and the future Mrs Luther, Katharina Von Bora, was a former nun, who escaped the monastic life by hiding in a covered wagon delivering herring to her monastery.
Nun: Psst! Is it okay if I hide in your wagon?
Wagon driver: What?
Nun (louder): I said, is-
Man’s voice: There’s nothing wrong with my herring!
Nun: Oh, I’d been told it was Luther wagon dross.
Driver: It’s a van, not a wagon.
Nun: That makes for a much better joke!
Luther in the Sky with Diamonds.
Luther’s lutier was looser with the loofah.
It’s a shame we had to wait 9 years after their debut EP for the album to finally be (self-)released, and (according to Discogs) saw them change genre from Hardcore Rock to Jazz/Rock/Funk/Soul/Pop.
I’m currently reading a book on the aftermath of the Swedish reformation, roughly the second half of the 16th century. So many deaths, so little time.
“You’re a Catholic? I must kill you then, slowly and while preaching loudly. Questions?”
“I’m currently reading a book on the aftermath of the Swedish reformation”
ATS
What is this ATS HP? I’ve noticed you use it a couple of time recently.
Afterword T Shirt
AFAIK
Ah, of course. Thanks Mini.
Haaaaang on!
If I was reading a book about religious reforms in the Byzantine Empire and their effect on the popular music of the time it might be a little eccentric. But not unexpected.
But what is in any way extraordinary about a Swede reading a book about the Swedish Reformation?
It all depends who you are and where you are.
What’s the name of the book, Neela? Just in case I need some light reading!
Surely a lot of those killings were for political as much as religious reasons? And those Protestant nations were not only in conflict with Catholic countries. They were just as likely to be warring with each other.