AmericanPapist Comments
B16 graciously deigns to meet Michael Jackson in his portable oxygen casket.
What is that?!?
I think it's actually a huge espresso machine.
Two thoughts:
"Danger, Will Robinson!"
"Exterminate!"
:P
The Picture looks fake 'cause if you notice the Pope is walking by and no one seems to notice: How likely is that? No more likely than a visit from Vorticon 6! Very clever caption however :-)
Pope Benedict looks confident that the Vatican's new coffee urn will provide enough java for everyone in St. Peter's Square. Look, it even has attachments for cream & sugar!
Yes, I think it has been photoshopped.
There has got to be an easier way to make a good cup of cappuccino.
"Catholics for a Free Choice again annoy the Pope with an outlandish condom campaign."
Kinda looks like a Michael Graves-designed confessional.
May the Force be with you!
Vorticon 6?? Are you alluding to that old computer game called Commander Keen? Or did you just make that name up by coincidence? Hahaha...
Yep, Commander Keen it was!
... but what about 6? ...
Perhaps B16 is a Timelord and is about to enter his TARDIS.
(if you're not a Dr Who fan, forget it)
I do recall an episode with Tom Baker that the President of the Timelords on planet Gallifrey was elected by the college of Cardinals and he was dressed all in white.
Eureka! I've got it! It is a large holy water reservoir and sprinkler system designed to shower all of Turkey. Look close. You can see the up turned shower heads on both sides.
Per Fr. Trigilio's cmment: B XVI is a Time Lord? I love it!!!!
(PS Fr. Trigilio, you just went up a couple of notches in my estimation as if being an orthodox Catholic priest of Italian ancestry [my maternal grandparents were from Southern Italy] wesn't already enough to put you near the top.)
But on to my caption:
The Time Lords sent Pope Benedict his new Tardis so he could go after _____________* & prove that (s)he was really the Master in disguise. (That would explain a lot, wouldn't it?)
* Fill in the blank, for instance Joan Chittester OSB
I wonder if I can get my wife a Lord's latte machine?
Actually it is really an espresso maker. The photo was taken in extreme closeup so that it has a bizarre foreshortening effect. And no, it wasn't photoshopped because you can see the distorted reflection of the portals of St. Peter's in the machine.
Your caption is so funny, though, that I'm reposting on the Chris Blosser's Pope Benedict fanclub forum.
Today, as the Pope went out for his cup of java...
Why isn't anyone looking at the Supreme Pontiff ?
You remember, Holiness, R2D2's first wife was a milking machine from Wisconsin. Rolf here is their oldest child.
I thought this was a time-machine too--yes, indeed, Tardis! :-D
As for the significance of "6"...
In the old DOS game series called Commander Keen, "Vorticon VI" was the home world of these bad guy aliens called the Vorticons, and it was the setting for the third game in the series.
Now, I'm not sure whether I should be proud or ashamed of myself for remembering that. Lol..
Looks like a giant garbage can to me.
On second glance--Ready for take off?
this is definitely not photoshopped. I happen to work in the coffee business (I roast coffee for a living and train people proper coffee preparation) and this photo actually made it into both Roast magazine and Barista magazine with the explanation that, I think, La Spaziale (I might have the company wrong) on the occasion of their company's anniversary, donated this machine to Pope Benedict. Apparently, our Holy Father drinks tons of epsresso. Like, ten shots a day.
That's quite a coffee habit. I'm certain he'll put this machine to good use.
Wow, thanks for the background... but, seriously, 10 shots a day?! Can you survive that?
Now we know how he writes all those books!
Now that's funny! Like your post, Fr. Triglio!
Still, why isn't anyone looking at him or that giant thing ?
It's just a pretty bad version of the photo, actually. In the copy I have, you can tell that the line of people barricaded behind that white cloth half-wall thing are all craning their necks to see the pope (or the giant espresso machine) and even a couple of people are standing atop something (or somebody) with their cameras to take pictures.
What we are looking at is part of the new high-tech Underground Papal Transport System (UPTS). It enables the pope to transport to almost any part of the world almost instantaneously.
I wish ...
Its a newfangled tabernacle from LA sent for melting.
I DO guess that the Holy Father is a Timelord, the Vicar of the Lord of Time.
That silver thing is the Ultimate Weapon that only the Pope has 'the Keys' to. It is designed to overload any dissidents and heretics with Authentic Catholic Doctrine that they will become mad.
It is the 'BXVI'.
The crowd at Saint Peter's could hardly believe their ears as the Pope abruptly resigned, and appointed Robot X7 as the new Supreme Pontiff of the Holy Catholic church.
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