What happens after the Pope dies?
I find the part where the cardinal calls his baptismal name three times and then strikes him with a hammer (which has the papal seal on it) on the forehead, just to make sure he's really, really dead.
Yes, there is. There's a hurry, Xander. I'm dying...I may have as few as fifty years left.
Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sparky1 - Apr 01, 2005 8:57:42 am PST #2292 of 10001
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Topic!Cindy - Apr 01, 2005 8:58:22 am PST #2293 of 10001
What is even happening?
CNN reports that the AP reports that the Vatican denies the Pope has died.
DXMachina - Apr 01, 2005 8:58:22 am PST #2294 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Well, I think his real name is Pope John Paul, just as Elizabeth HP is my real name now, although I was born Elizabeth H.
I wonder what his drivers license says?
Connie Neil - Apr 01, 2005 8:58:39 am PST #2295 of 10001
brillig
t blasphemous
"There's a dead bishop on the landing!"
t /blasphemous
tommyrot - Apr 01, 2005 8:58:46 am PST #2296 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The first reports, picked up by the state broadcaster RAI, said his electrocardiogram had gone flat. The ADNkronos news agency said monitoring showed his brain activity had halted.
But Sky Italia television later quoted Vatican sources saying both his brain and heart were still functioning.
There is only one explanation: There must be two Popes.
-t - Apr 01, 2005 8:59:15 am PST #2297 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
"deaths by exhaustion" linked to Internet role-playing games? Damn. DH is lucky that I wake up in the middle of the night and make him stop playing.
Aims - Apr 01, 2005 8:59:50 am PST #2298 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I wonder what his drivers license says?
"Must wear corrective lenses."
Hayden - Apr 01, 2005 9:00:00 am PST #2299 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
4 hours? You guys aren't doing it right. See, you sleep in shifts. Mom goes to bed at 9 and you have baby-patrol until 2am. Then she's on duty from 2-7. That guarantees each of you 5 hours plus. The plus being anytime you have the baby sleeping on your shift.
Yeah, we're definitely not doing it right. Actually I theoretically have the 2-7 sleep shift, but she rarely ends up sleeping on her shift. There's issues there too personal for this board.
tommyrot - Apr 01, 2005 9:00:39 am PST #2300 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I wonder what his drivers license says?
It says, "Dude - you've stopped the Pope!?!?!"
Nutty - Apr 01, 2005 9:00:55 am PST #2301 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
strikes him with a hammer (which has the papal seal on it) on the forehead
I liked this detail too. Hope the hammer is really, really small.
There must be two Popes.
I have told you, haven't I, about looking up one of the John Popes, and discovering that, not only are they all out of number order, due to miscounting, there have been two anti-Popes named John? Apparently, the phrase "duelling Popes" is quite historically accurate (the winner got to append anti- to the loser).