MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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It's a Girl!!!
By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 3:41pm |In an announcement reminiscent of "Dewey Defeats Truman", TBogg jumps the gun and reveals the new pope to be Marisa Tomei I.
Sad, as with her star-studded career, she might have been regarded the world's first SuperPope, and would certainly have looked better in Prada than the previous pope.
Plus the name "Raymond J. De Souza" evokes a writer of detective novels, not the shepherd of the world's sheep.
Still, it marks a departure of the Papacy out of depressing grey Central Europe to warmer southern climes, where mass will now be conducted clockwise due to the reversed Coriolis force.
Rumors have it the new Pope will take his vows wearing a Gaucho hat and boots. However, many rumors have previously been shown to be dead wrong.
I'm also left wondering how we'll make a movie about Benedict what with Heath Ledger gone...
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It's Francis, not Frances, silly boy.
Kevin Drum's humor was more subtle when he announced the selection of "Francis I, a dark horse" on his blog. He will probably post a correction in an update explaining the difference between talking horses and talking mules. :D
by EmmaZahn on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 4:17pm
"Caballo oscuro", claro que sí. Better than J. Alfred Prufrock.
As they say, a talking horse is one thing, but don't listen to the sheep, he's a liar.
Francis Granjero will get
herhis revenge on Seattle.Do I get to throw in a Ma & Pa Kettle joke now?
Was this a Vatican tilt towards Chavism? or just Chavs?
Missed my lede, "From Gucci to Gaucho".
Okay, that's all I got. Your turn.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 5:02pm
No habla Español!
Francis Marion was The Swamp Fox
Frances Marian was my mother.
Nun Marian killed cocky Robin in a movie with odd casting.
Never made it through a whole Ma & Pa Kettle movie so I doubt I would get the joke. Humor obscura et al.
by EmmaZahn on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 5:29pm
Therefore your mother was the Swomp Fax.
No one made it through Ma & Pa Kettle except the clinically dead/stoopid. Just a test.
And no need to speak Spanish, Pig Latin is universal in Latin America I've heard. E-I-E-I-O. Can't wait to hear mass in it.
Beautiful, no?
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 7:32pm
I just adore the Ma & Pa Kettle movies so I do take great offense at what you just said!
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 7:57pm
Senator Beauregard Claghorn called and wasn't too keen on it either...
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 8:05pm
As a Kenny Delmar fan, I take great exception at your characterization of his characterization.
by MrSmith1 on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 9:59pm
As disciplinarian of the family, my mother was very skilled at swomp faxing.
by EmmaZahn on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 8:40pm
by Richard Day on Thu, 03/14/2013 - 12:28am
That's funny! I remember the short-lived show but did not remember Leslie Nielsen was the star but I did remember he was Canadian but looked it up just to be sure. Also found this:
and a snippet of the song lyrics:
So much for historical accuracy. Even way back then Carolinians did not think of themselves as yankees. :D
by EmmaZahn on Thu, 03/14/2013 - 2:05am
PS - Granjero = Farmer. Inspired decent performance by Jessica Lange, but grossly fictionalized script. "Will there ever be a morning?" better.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 03/14/2013 - 4:28am
Well, turns out Dennis The Diplomat was there (for real hoping to have a sit-down meeting with the new Pope):
Starting to make Sacha Baron Cohen look like a real slacker.
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 11:20pm
The Pope takes the wheel!
While visiting the United States, the Pope is riding in the back of a limo when he gets an idea. "Mind if I take the wheel for awhile?" he asks.
"Sure," the driver says and they switch positions.
The Pope starts driving: ignoring the speed limit, dodging left and right without signaling and cutting people off.
A policeman pulls him over and when the Pope rolls down the window the cop stops dead in his tracks then rushes back car to report in to the station. "Chief," he exclaims. "I just pulled over someone real important."
"Who?" the police chief asks. "A senator?"
"No. Much more important."
"The President?"
"Higher still!"
"Who's higher than that?" the police chief demands.
"I don't know," the policeman says. "But he's got the Pope as a chauffeur."
by A Guy Called LULU on Sun, 03/24/2013 - 5:59pm