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03-05-2013, 01:49 PM
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Electing the new pope
What criteria do you think the College of Cardinals should apply? Here's my suggestion:
Although we liked your piece on St Caecilia,
You’ve never joined the Mafia of Roma.
What’s more, you lack the requisite diploma -
A PhD in Higher Paedophilia.
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03-05-2013, 08:00 PM
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On Seeing the Wrong Sort of Smoke Issuing from the Curia
Pope?
Nope.
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03-05-2013, 08:08 PM
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A woman maybe? Someone black?
No, neither choice will do.
I'd really love to live in Rome,
So why not pick a Jew?
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03-06-2013, 09:32 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Roger Slater
A woman maybe? Someone black?
No, neither choice will do.
I'd really love to live in Rome,
So why not pick a Jew?
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The first Pope was a married Jew
So really, Roger, why not you?
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03-06-2013, 11:38 PM
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heh heh! g'donya Gail!
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03-07-2013, 12:04 AM
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Roger's Dream Poem
A puff of white is seen at last,
and headlines scream, incarnadine:
the white silk robes and gold ring passed
to Samuel Cardinal Silverstine.
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03-07-2013, 09:03 AM
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THE SHADE OF EMILY DICKINSON WEIGHS IN ON THIS DEBATE
The Pope - could be - a Jew?
I know that isn't true -
I am the spirit who dis-
covered he's a - Buddhist.
Last edited by Douglas G. Brown; 03-07-2013 at 09:22 AM.
Reason: fixed slepping error
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03-11-2013, 12:55 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Douglas G. Brown
THE SHADE OF EMILY DICKINSON WEIGHS IN ON THIS DEBATE
The Pope - could be - a Jew?
I know that isn't true -
I am the spirit who dis-
covered he's a - Buddhist.
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The Pope a Buddhist or a Jew?
Dear Em, you’re quite mistaken.
These stirring times, I’m telling you,
Have left him rather shaken.
He’s seen the writing on the wall
And since religion is sham,
It doesn’t bother him at all
Converting now to Islam.
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03-07-2013, 05:36 AM
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One Foot Beyond
One Foot Beyond
Perhaps a younger pontiff, one
Who's not for God too soon,
Might stand a chance of getting done
Some work before he's hewn;
Else why not have the Eastern Pope
As Boss-Man in the West? -
The Schism solved may signal hope
That clergymen know best.
I guess the Roman Catholic Church
Will act as it sees fit
(You'd think another Borgian lurch
Should bring some spunk with it).
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03-07-2013, 07:35 AM
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for Roger
It could be cool to have a Jewish pontiff.
Come Passover I’d wish him a Gutte Yontiff !
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