Lola at the Coffee House

@Lola,

I had a couple of those cardinals at my bird feeder just this morning.

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@Lola,

Oh man, you should see the bullshit they go through just to get the place painted!

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@Setanta,

Ok, now that was funny.

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@Lola,

It amuses me no end to imagine what the rabid atheists are thinking when they are watching the scenes being broadcast from the Vatican. To see so many dignified gentlemen engaging in the most ridiculous and fatuous flummery, not to mention the expense, must really challenge their sense of proper, scientific decorum. The world holds its breath while a bunch of fatties in fancy dress do geriatric pratfalls and the poor little atheists have to see it with only a wasp to chew on and a few other oddballs to comfort their frustrated indignation plus some suspiciously repetitive references to priests with a finger up a choirboy's bum.

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@spendius,

Boredom is the operative word, spendi. What do I give a ****? They will be back at the same games immediately after.

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@edgarblythe,

meanwhile spendi is probably coursing a book on the outcome

7 ta 5 some Brazilian gets it.

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@spendius,

Why pick on the atheists, spendi? I think that probably all non-Roman Catholics feel a certain amount of amusement at the slapstick that goes on at the Vatican whenever a Pontiff dies or abdicates. It's even sillier than the British court system where barristers wear wigs and sometimes speak to the judge and to one another in a language that hasn't been in common use since the days of Henry VIII or even earlier.

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@edgarblythe,

It wouldn't be so bad, ed, if they were not holding up progress towards a more orderly and logical way of doing things the nature of which nobody is prepared to reveal to our eager ears except maybe for Messrs Huxley and Orwell and both of them made a bit of bollocks of it due to their expensive educations and them being members of the minor aristocracy: two burdens which few can overcome.

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

It wouldn't be so bad, ed, if they were not holding up progress towards a more orderly and logical way of doing things the nature of which nobody is prepared to reveal to our eager ears except maybe for Messrs Huxley and Orwell and both of them made a bit of bollocks of it due to their expensive educations and them being members of the minor aristocracy: two burdens which few can overcome.

Man, oh, man, your sense of humour is really on a roll today, spendi! How do you "make progress towards a more orderly and logical way" when dealing with an institution that, by its very nature, is neither orderly nor logical?

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You can't fight city hall.

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Who's blocking the door?

please mooooooooove!

It's hailing out here.

<stomp stomp stomp>

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@Lustig Andrei,

That reminds me of a funny story. A law student was vacationing in South Africa and he thought he would visit a court hearing. When the judge made an amusing remark one of the ushers hurried to the public gallery and gave all the ladies's breasts a quick weighing with up-cupped hands.

The student turned to his guide and asked what that was all about. The guide was somewhat surprised and opened a book containing a transcript of a trial in England which was the model being copied and pointed to where the judge had made funnies after which it read (a titter ran round the court).

I know, I know. I'm easily amused.

I've never seen anybody play football like Barcelona do. I would back them to win the World Cup if they were allowed to play in it.

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@spendius,

Go ahead, try to swallow.

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@spendius,

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The world holds its breath while a bunch of fatties in fancy dress do geriatric pratfalls and the poor little atheists have to see it with only a wasp to chew on and a few other oddballs to comfort their frustrated indignation plus some suspiciously repetitive references to priests with a finger up a choirboy's bum.

Your delicate sense of humor is always appreciated around here, spendi.

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@farmerman,

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7 ta 5 some Brazilian gets it.

There's a bunch of new Catholics in Ghana that are keeping their fingers crossed for a Black Pope. But I think they're going to be disappointed. Can't happen. No way.

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@ehBeth,

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Get outta the cold and enjoy!

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@Lola,

What I've read about most of the african cardinals is scaryshit. No, I don't know about every one of them. Be careful what you ask for.

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@Lustig Andrei,

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How do you "make progress towards a more orderly and logical way" when dealing with an institution that, by its very nature, is neither orderly nor logical?

That's easy to answer Andrei. You ignore it. That's what's so funny. They can't. They keep peeking. Scott Pelley's in Rome saying things like "all roads lead to Rome". Every channel has its own senior correspondent there hyping up the mystique and its spell-binding magic.

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