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Posted by The Silverblue Sun (Member # 1630) on :
 
The Pope lived a long, good life.
Everyone liked him.
Even the guy who shot him
proclaimed love for the Pope.

So there he goes,
into the sunset,
the last man on Earth
everybody liked and respected.

<T>
 

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Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
I think you're forgetting about Vanilla Ice.
 

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Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
 
And what about Shinehead O'Connor?

[ April 05, 2005, 01:18 AM: Message edited by: Speed ]
 

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Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
 
You're right. Sinead is one of the men I adore.
 

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Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
 
I think we all liked Colonel Sanders, too.

With or without his wee beady eyes.
 

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Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
 
I don't mean everyone likes her. I mean she didn't like the Pope. Or at least not pictures of him.

[ April 05, 2005, 01:24 AM: Message edited by: Speed ]
 

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Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
 
my dad is such a clergy hater. I think it runs in the male side of his family. He's getting worse each year.
 

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Posted by Cashew (Member # 6023) on :
 
A fundamentalist Christian friend of mine was distributing pamphlets in the late 80s about how the Pope had been a child molester in Poland! Serious.
 

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Posted by Cashew (Member # 6023) on :
 
Not really a 'friend', more of a work associate.
 

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Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
 
They'd be lynched be Polish fundamentalist Christians if they tried to do it over here.
 

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Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
 

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I don't mean everyone likes her. I mean she didn't like the Pope. Or at least not pictures of him.

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I know. That's why I'm funny.
 

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Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
 
Could I just note that I wasn't very fond of yon Pope?
 

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Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
 
It doesn't come as much of a shock, KoM.
 

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Posted by Jordache Dailey (Member # 7699) on :
 
no offense to anyone but dont you find it odd that the leader of one the largest religions most strainuis activitys is drooling?
 

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Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
 
I might find it offensive if I could figure out what you're talking about.

I *think* you said that I might find your drooling offensive-- let me reassure that I do not. But for pity's sake, get a napkin-- you'll short out your keyboard.
 

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Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
 
Scott

[ April 05, 2005, 10:07 AM: Message edited by: Kama ]
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Lots of people didn't like him because of his conservative tendencies. In particular, near the end of his papacy he did a lot to put the brakes on tendencies to be more open to birth control, homosexuality, married clergy, and female clergy.

I disagreed with his beliefs on these issues, but I think he was a very good person with whom I simply did not agree. I base this not merely on the fact that he was pope, but on having read his life's story and seen the areas on life where our outlook is more common.

I'm actually quite pleased with how positive/generous the comments made both here and in the press have been in the wake of his death. In the last couple of years, I had read/heard a lot of people basically looking forward to his death as an opportunity to get someone more progressive in the office. I'm glad I haven't seen much of that tacky sentiment at this time.

EDIT for arrant pedantry.

[ April 05, 2005, 11:10 AM: Message edited by: Icarus ]
 

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Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
 
On top of the homosexuality issue, I also didn't like him for his oposition to the war in Iraq. Now I don't want to debate the war for the 15 millionth time, but I just wanted to point out that I was someone else who wasn't fond of the Pope.
 

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Posted by Portabello (Member # 7710) on :
 
I guess it goes to show that if you have a bowl of cheerios, somebody will go out of their way to come and piss in it.
 

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Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
 
I didn't like the Pope.

However, I didn't really hate him either.

So, I'm sort of indifferent here.

I guess the title is misleading.
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
Joe Kennedy died?

Hobbes
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Porter, are you saying I have done this?

I don't think so.


 

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Posted by Portabello (Member # 7710) on :
 
Icky, I don't think you did this. In fact, you did the opposite.

*goes on to ponder what the opposite of pissing in cheerios is*

*reaches conclusion*

If anything, you put some sugar in the cheerios!
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
Well now that we established that we should all get back to the real purpose of this thread, admiring how funny I am or this whole thread shall be wasted at the time of my coming.

Hobbes
 

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Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
 

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I guess it goes to show that if you have a bowl of cheerios, somebody will go out of their way to come and piss in it.

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You have to admit, this particular bowl of cheerios was asking to be pissed in. I understand that John Paul II was admired by a larger portion of the non-Catholic world than previous popes, but when someone says that everyone likes someone or something, you have to expect that people who do not like that person or thing will come and express their dissent.

I don't think it was anyone's intention to smear the man--at last, anyone who could write coherently. I think they just wanted to prove that the absurd overstatement that everyone liked John Paul II was false.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Thanks, Porter.

-o-

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*goes on to ponder what the opposite of pissing in cheerios is*

*reaches conclusion*

If anything, you put some sugar in the cheerios!

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But . . . if I'm diabetic, I could actually be doing both at the same time!
 

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Posted by Portabello (Member # 7710) on :
 
>.<
 

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Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
 
I have to say, I have had lots of bowls of cherios in the past, and noone has ever tried to piss in them.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Corn flakes, on the other hand . . .
 

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Posted by The Silverblue Sun (Member # 1630) on :
 

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I guess it goes to show that if you have a bowl of cheerios, somebody will go out of their way to come and piss in it.

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just crass enough to make you think it's Anglo Saxon in origin

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I resent that.

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