Benedict the 16th.
Saffron: You're a good man. Mal: You clearly haven't been talking to anyone else on this boat.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
Betsy HP - Apr 19, 2005 7:44:34 am PDT #6905 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Cashmere - Apr 19, 2005 7:44:35 am PDT #6906 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Dana - Apr 19, 2005 7:44:41 am PDT #6907 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
FDR also survived an assassination attempt. According to Sondheim and Wiedman.
Hayden - Apr 19, 2005 7:44:44 am PDT #6908 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Hey, Ratzinger was great on Cheers. It's a shame that he's trying to lead the world back into the Dark Ages, though.
amych - Apr 19, 2005 7:45:34 am PDT #6909 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
All those cardinals, and they couldn't find one who wasn't a Nazi?
shrift - Apr 19, 2005 7:45:44 am PDT #6910 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Can we kick some heads, too?
Bloom, close, kick 'em in the head!
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2005 7:46:09 am PDT #6911 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How do they pick the fancy name? Does he get to choose?
Aims - Apr 19, 2005 7:46:58 am PDT #6912 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I belive he gets to choose. Nuns get to choose their new names too, right?
juliana - Apr 19, 2005 7:47:22 am PDT #6913 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
McKinley did have a mountain named after him (but haven't we been calling the mountain Denali for a long time?)
(Interior) Alaskans are pretty damn adamant about calling Denali Denali, but everything official about the mountain calls it(him) Mount McKinley. The park is Denali Park, though.
Ratzinger, huh? Well, fuck.
Susan W. - Apr 19, 2005 7:48:20 am PDT #6914 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
He gets to choose. I think with nuns, they're named by the abbess when they enter the convent.
Bear in mind, all my info comes from reading In This House of Brede, and while I trust its accuracy, it's set in the 50's and 60's and might be outdated.