Oh, and the thing about college seniors not knowing general US history stuff? Senior year of college seems like the time you'd least be thinking about general stuff -- I mean, aren't seniors in college both focused on their majors and really really drunk all the time?
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next? Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
'Objects In Space'
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.
Jesse - Apr 19, 2005 7:54:53 am PDT #6929 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Connie Neil - Apr 19, 2005 7:54:59 am PDT #6930 of 10001
brillig
So, a 78-year-old succeeds an 84-year-old.
Well, John Paul II was young when he was elected.
Discovery/History/TLC (one of those type) had a special on Papal elections last night. They referred to electing an old Pope as 'someone who will keep the chair of Peter warm without moving the furniture around too much.'
Gudanov - Apr 19, 2005 7:55:02 am PDT #6931 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
amych - Apr 19, 2005 7:55:44 am PDT #6932 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
wouldn't Benedict mean "good word" or something like that.
Blessed.
tommyrot - Apr 19, 2005 7:56:12 am PDT #6933 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.
So, we call him Benedict now? That's a lame Pope name.
I'ma gonna call him "eggs".
Strix - Apr 19, 2005 7:56:19 am PDT #6934 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I kind of like Benedict.
I kinda wonder what modern pope would have the balls to call himself Pope Immaculate.
OTOH, Ratzinger is really conservative. Ick.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 19, 2005 7:57:10 am PDT #6935 of 10001
What is even happening?
This used to be true but isn't any more. At least not for all orders. And a bunch who weren't originally allowed to pick their own names were later able to do so. Like my great aunt who's original nun name was Mother Kevin but she switched back to her own name sometime in the late 60s / early 70s I think.A woman I worked with went to a Catholic college (or boarding prep school--I disremember). There was apparently a cemetery for the nuns, on the grounds. She saw one headstone with the name Mary Circumcision. Bet that one didn't pick her own name.
Betsy HP - Apr 19, 2005 7:57:18 am PDT #6936 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Popes generally pick a name that aligns them with a previous pope; thus John Paul I was saying that he was going to continue in the traditions of his two immediate predecessors.
I have no idea whose side, theologically, the last Benedict was on.
Steph L. - Apr 19, 2005 7:57:25 am PDT #6937 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The Catholic Church: proving that everything old IS new again, the cardinals elect a Scary-Ass Bigoted Zealot to be the head of the Church.
Coming up next, the Crusades for a new millennium....
Gudanov - Apr 19, 2005 7:58:41 am PDT #6938 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Coming up next, the Crusades for a new millennium....
We've already taken care of that part.