Vatican on Pope: "It's curtains"

[TragicMonkey]

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I cannot wait for that! But where are the monkeys?

Their presence is left unstated, by is subtly implied thematically.

 

[crimresearch]

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No, they form a 1inC.

Who is significant in his absence...you would think that he would be here bragging about how God had brought John Paul home to His Kingdom, to receive his eternal reward for bringing so many millions of people into the Christian fold....

Hmmm...

Maybe it is a touch of the old professional jealousy?

 

[Lisa Simpson]

I'd have to go back through 1inC's posts, but I seem to recall him saying something about how Catholics aren't really Christians. And the Pope was evil or something.

 

[Mycroft]

Who is significant in his absence...you would think that he would be here bragging about how God had brought John Paul home to His Kingdom, to receive his eternal reward for bringing so many millions of people into the Christian fold....

Hmmm...

Maybe it is a touch of the old professional jealousy?

My guess is he's the type of Christian who believes the Catholic Church is the whore of Babylon, and he doesn't care one way or another what happens to any one Pope.

 

[TragicMonkey]

My guess is he's the type of Christian who believes the Catholic Church is the whore of Babylon, and he doesn't care one way or another what happens to any one Pope.

If the Catholic Church were really the Whore of Babylon, I wouldn't have lapsed.

 

[jimmygun]

Do you refer to real football as "football" or "soccer"?

And now that the pope's dead, it's really over as far as I'm concerned (apart from the funeral and stuff like that). I couldn't care less if the new pope was called Pope Shaggy the first... Hmm, perhaps I would care a bit about that one...

There is a world of difference between 'football' and 'soccer'! Football (as in NFL) is masculine, soccer (as in Westminster Thunderpants) is feminine. Not too hard to understand is it?

 

[E.J.Armstrong]

originally posted by Sceptic
Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and pope; egg bacon and pope; egg bacon sausage and pope; pope bacon sausage and pope; pope egg pope pope bacon and pope; pope sausage pope pope bacon pope tomato and pope;
Media: Pope pope pope pope...
Waitress: ...pope pope pope egg and pope; pope pope pope pope pope pope baked beans pope pope pope...
Media: Pope! Lovely pope! Lovely pope!
Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and pope.
Wife: Have you got anything without pope?
Waitress: Well, there's pope egg sausage and pope, that's not got much pope in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY pope!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon pope and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got pope in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much pope in it as pope egg sausage and pope, has it?
Media: Pope pope pope pope... (Crescendo through next few lines...)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon pope and sausage without the pope then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like pope!
Media: Lovely pope! Wonderful pope!
Waitress: Shut up!
Media: Lovely pope! Wonderful pope!
Waitress: Shut up! (Media stop) Bloody Media! You can't have egg bacon pope and sausage without the pope.
Wife: I don't like pope!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your pope. I love it. I'm having pope pope pope pope pope pope pope beaked beans pope pope pope and pope!
Media: Pope pope pope pope. Lovely pope! Wonderful pope!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man: Well could I have her pope instead of the baked beans then?
Waitress: You mean pope pope pope pope pope pope... (but it is too late and the Media drown her words)
Media: Pope pope pope pope. Lovely pope! Wonderful pope! Pope p-o-o-o-o-o-p-e pope p-o-o-o-o-p-e pope. Lovely pope! Lovely pope! Lovely pope! Lovely pope! Lovely pope! Pope pope pope pope!

Hopefully you are going to apply this Monty Python sketch on all similar occasion such as when the leaders of both Islam and Judaism die. Look forwards to consistency on this front, after all they are all talking rubbish when they talk about god and the things he promised such as land - right?

 

[Cleon]

Hopefully you are going to apply this Monty Python sketch on all similar occasion such as when the leaders of both Islam and Judaism die. Look forwards to consistency on this front, after all they are all talking rubbish when they talk about god and the things he promised such as land - right?

Actually, given the relative unstructured nature of Judaism and Islam (and the way more influential nature of Catholicism in the US) I really doubt the death of any Jewish or Muslim figure would get nearly as much attention as the ex-Pope.

Even when the Lubavitcher Rebbe died, the closest thing to a Pope-like figure in Judaism (though not outside of the Lubavitch Hassidim), he got barely a mention, much less days of unending coverage.

 

[Lisa Simpson]

I wondered how much press the Dalai Lama will get when he dies. He's not the head of the Buddhist religion, but he did win a Nobel Peace Prize and is kind of well known.

 

[Hawk one]

There is a world of difference between 'football' and 'soccer'! Football (as in NFL) is masculine, soccer (as in Westminster Thunderpants) is feminine. Not too hard to understand is it?

Don't complain about people calling it ice hockey when you're clearly confused about what is real football.

Real football (as in the kind that is played by the entire world except USA and Canada) is as masculine as it gets. If you doubt me on this, just walk into an English bar with hooligans in it and shout "football is for sissies".

Besides, you hardly kick the ball, and you never kick the opponent (or the audience, in the case of Eric Cantona). So why on earth do you call that American version of rugby for football? Why not "American rugby" instead? That would fit so much better, and real football would be called football everywhere.

 

[Marquis de Carabas]

Don't complain about people calling it ice hockey when you're clearly confused about what is real football.

Real football (as in the kind that is played by the entire world except USA and Canada) is as masculine as it gets. If you doubt me on this, just walk into an English bar with hooligans in it and shout "football is for sissies".

All right, being a <s>football</s> soccer fan is not for sissies, I'll grant you. Soccer fans are a large, smelly group of men so afraid that their friends will think they are gay for watching such a sissy sport that they resort to random acts of violence against old women and vending machines to "prove their manliness."

The players, however, are complete wusses.

Besides, you hardly kick the ball, and you never kick the opponent (or the audience, in the case of Eric Cantona). So why on earth do you call that American version of rugby for football? Why not "American rugby" instead? That would fit so much better, and real football would be called football everywhere.

I'm not here to defend American football, only to denigrate the most popular sport in the world, thank you.

 

[Skeptic]

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[Skeptic]

Actually, given the relative unstructured nature of Judaism and Islam (and the way more influential nature of Catholicism in the US) I really doubt the death of any Jewish or Muslim figure would get nearly as much attention as the ex-Pope.

Even when the Lubavitcher Rebbe died, the closest thing to a Pope-like figure in Judaism (though not outside of the Lubavitch Hassidim), he got barely a mention, much less days of unending coverage.

Precisely. The pope's death is being covered not because of his religious or moral stance, although that is the excuse, but due to his celebrity status. My joke was at the media's expense--not the pope's and not Catholicism's expense.

 

[Darat]

Precisely. The pope's death is being covered not because of his religious or moral stance, although that is the excuse, but due to his celebrity status. My joke was at the media's expense--not the pope's and not Catholicism's expense.

And nothing to do with the fact that the Pope is the spiritual leader of over a billion people worldwide?

Yes this Pope did have, inevitably, a much higher “media profile” then previous Popes however his influence and importance on the “world stage” was because of the immense power he had as the spiritual leader of almost a fifth of the world’s population. The interest in his death is about that fact, sure the media makes it a circus but that is what the media does with any event or person.

 

[Hawk one]

All right, being a football fan is not for sissies, I'll grant you. Soccer fans are a large, smelly group of men so afraid that their friends will think they are gay for watching such a sissy sport that they resort to random acts of violence against old women and vending machines to "prove their manliness."

The players, however, are complete wusses.

Marquis, I would like you to meet Roy Keane and Vinny Jones, two football players that I'm sure would like to hear your stand on whether football is a game for sissies.

And American rugby fans are generally smelly men that are afraid to let anyone think they're gay as well. Only difference is that they're so sissified they are only capable of random acts of violence against their wives. Football hooligans are usually taking on each other and the coppers.

I'm not here to defend American <s>football</s> rugby, only to denigrate the most popular sport in the world, thank you.

Fixed. And I was originally just intending to denigrate the most popular sport in Canada, so that's OK.

 

[Huzington]

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