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Where the hell are the Mod's? You can't use these words when discussing the Pope or the Church

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:lol: Nope never saw a single pope. And regarding the Nazi thing. From 1939 it was legally required to join the Hitler Youth once a boy turned 14. He was born in a village in deepest Bavaria where not sending your child to the HJ would have been equally bad as shouting out loud than one disagreed with Hitler. He could have apologised a bit more for the "church sex abuse cover up" though and I am not sure that he really meant it.
I am sure it'll be another pope in the late 70s at least.

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Swooned clean away I imagine. Iain lying in a heap being slapped into conciousness, Christmasoopma sniffing salvalataly and waving her arms in a fervour. Oh a mod's life is harsh.

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Well, if the Mod's are away...


The Pope and Queen Elizabeth were standing on a balcony beaming at thousands of people in the forecourt below.

The Queen says to the Pope out of the corner of her mouth, "I bet you a tenner that I can make every English person in the crowd go wild with just a wave of my hand."

The Pope says, "No way. You can't do that."

The Queen says, "Watch this."

So the Queen waves her hand and every English person in the crowd goes crazy, waving their little plastic Union Jacks on sticks and cheering, basically going ballistic.

So the Pope is standing there thinking, "Uh oh, what am I going to do? I never thought she'd be able to do it."

So he thinks to himself for a minute and then he turns to her and says, "I bet you I can make every Irish person in the crowd go wild, not just now, but for the rest of the week, with just one nod of my head."

The Queen goes, "No way, it can't be done."





Now that's a Pope that might bring about change.

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I see those words in the same sentence as "Pope" or "Church" quite a bit.....:huh:

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and the "smilie" is spot on for the face that you'd make if you did

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Indeed - it just looked "right":lol:

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They're touting a Canadian as the next Pope in teh G&M, I guess hiring Canadians is getting trendy

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maybe doing a 180. They must have had a meeting and said "look guys we f****d up a bit with the last one, I mean hitler youth FFS :frown: we need to pick someone the polar opposite of this ....................."

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Hopefully they pick a young one, the next pope is supposed to be the last before the end of the world.

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Just looked at the betting with PaddyPower (Had to be):rofl:

Latest Odds Cardinal Peter Turkson 3/1 (Ghana)
Cardinal Marc Quellet 7/2 (Canada)
Cardinal Francis Arinze 9/2 (Nigeria)
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri 6/1 (Spain)
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga 7/1 (Honduras)
Cardinal Angelo Scola 8/1 (Italy)
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi 8/1 (Italy)


Turkson is only 64, the Canadian 68 but I think Scola was favourite last time around.....but he is already 71 couldn't find a price for Dougal which is a shame :rofl::rofl:

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The Canadian one's odds have gone up to 3/1...

Didn't they used to give them those whacky names like Pope Innocent III and Pope Pious VII?....If he gets the nod, I reckon he should go with something really Canadian like Pope Awesome I...:thumbsup:

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Pope nice I

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Was father Jack mentioned? If so I might have a sneaky fiver on him

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Pope Doug I. Eh?