Overheard at the Water Cooler
(accompanied by respectfully raucous laughter)
"God, did you see the Pope on tv?"
"Christ! What'd they do, wheel him up to the window and move his chair side to side to make it look like he was waving?"
"Like a marionette!"
"I know! Jesus, let the guy die already. Maybe he did. Maybe that surgery was really taxidermy!"
"My God, let a fella rest in peace! He's earned it!"
"Well, they can't! They haven't figured out who's going to succeed him yet."
"Yah, well how much you wanna make a bet that once they do, he croaks within two weeks?"
posted by mpho3 at 9:23 PM
6 Comments:
Joke I heard today:
A: Did you hear they cancelled Easter?
B: What, no Easter this year?
A: No, I mean it's cancelled forever.
B: What happened?
A: Well -- they found the body.
posted by bren at Blogcritics.org on March 25, 2005 07:54 PM:
Is nothing sacred?
posted by DrPat on Blogcritics.org on March 25, 2005 08:00 PM:
No - should it be?
Although I guess you could argue that nihilists worship nothing, in which case it is, for them.
posted by B.Stani on Blogcritics.org March 26, 2005 10:30 PM:
Easter, nihilism, and the Pope. This is why I love blogs! If everything was sacred we wouldn't have comedy, and there's nothing funnier than Vatican politics as an extension of the sanctity of human life as homage to the God who so loved us that he gave his only son only to be mixed in celebrations of chocolate rabbits and tie-dyed eggs. But the Pope rocks. He's 84 and even if you don't believe in that stuff, he's a fixture throughout the world. That's true power and belief. Nobody is that powerful except maybe Brittany Spears.
posted by Dave Nalle on Blogcritics.org on March 27, 2005 05:07 AM:
We should start a Papal Death Pool. Buy in for 5 bucks, pick a date - closest wins the pot.
Dave
posted by SFC SKI on Blogcritics.org on March 27, 2005 05:16 AM:
Great play on words, Dr. Pat. I needed a laugh.
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