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Pope Benedict wows the crowd after a recent news conference by showing off his soft-shoe dance bit.
Rha-ta-ta-ta.
Not so fast! Now look, the floor has CHUST been vaxed, und ve are fed up vith people valking across it und leaving footprints. This time you VILL vait until it's dry!
"They've really got to stop waxing the floors on Audience day."
"Everybody, remain calm. We'll have soup soon!"
"Vait! Vait! Check out mein new Air Vaticans! Zey are das shizzle!"
"Yes, yes. I know the Will Smith song goes, 'The good guys dress in black,' and 'The MIB are the galaxy defenders,' and this is true. Our Men in Black are our good defenders of the faith against 'the worst scum of the universe.' Just because I am wearing white, do not think I'm on the opposite team."
Air Vaticans indeed! :)
Gerard E. - LOL!
"But when the young men heard the saying, they went away sad, for they had great possessions."
A mild paraphrase of St. Matthew 19.22
Wait!Don't leave! I've got a great video to show you via booshay.blogspot.com via April! No Christmas presents for me!
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After months of practice Pope Benedict shows off his krumping skills.
The first run-through of the Vatican's production of "Me and My Shadow" exposed certain areas for improvement.
"Can't touch this."
Foxfier - ROFL!
Those red shoes really stand out (this is not a caption). On another note, is Papa getting ready to do the "foot shuffle", the one you put your toes together, then the heels, then the toes, and you move along? What is that called?
Actually, in 2005, the Holy Father DID forget the blessings (Castelgandolfo) and left, Then, in a few seconds he came back and shyly explained that he was distracted and his mind was on his first apostolic visit outside Italy. He was due to leave in a few days for Cologne and WYD2005.
Michelle -
I don't know, but I remember it was the first "dance" move my dad taught us, just because it is possible to nearly endlessly fascinate little kids with. ;^p
"Some things just ain't funny."
Tex, this is just a good example of familiarity breeding contempt.
It's strange to me how people like Maureen, Thomas, and Segamon (who whinned and whinned ad nauseam about being called a few insipid names) get soooo offended at uncomplementary comments to themselves, yet think nothing of insulting others even to the point of this photo caption with the Blessed Mother as the subject.
Ya know folks, the question here is not your or anyone else's opinion as to the appropriateness of this photo caption contest. The question is how does Our Lord view this and not YOUR opinion of how YOU think He might view it.
I am sorry to inform you that you haven't come to the realization that your opinions are either wrong or of no value whatsoever. Fact is you don't actually have a right to an opinion. You have a duty to know the will of The Church and obey it, or just call yourself Protestant. I defy anyone of you to find any writing of the Church or the Early Fathers that held up the Blessed Mother or the Holy Father to ridicule or jokes of any kind.
Maybe this will get your attention. Think about a picture of the Crucifixion for the next photo caption contest. Keeping in mind it's just a picture of Our Lord not really Him.
Is anyone here crude enough to even dare to post a caption?
(I personally think there are plenty of you who would do such a thing.)
This is my happy face. So don't tell me to lighten up.
Quick question, how is this aimed at our Blessed Mother? I See a picture of the Holy Father.
jef, my mistake. I posted this same comment in the ridicule com box for the Blessed Mother. When I posted it here in this ridicule com box for the Holy Father I forgot to make the appropriate change. Pardon the oversight.
P.S. I know He's not a church father but will G. K. Chesterton Do as a start?
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity."
Well put, Jef. I hope you will post that quote on the other caption thread.
Jef, that's a good quote. I like Chesterton very much, but it applies to one's self not to holy things. If you want to joke about me that's fine, but don't tell me jokes about Jesus, His Mother or the Pope.
C.S. Lewis said, "There are some things that should not be joked about." Now if it's OK to joke about the Pope, Jesus, and The Blessed Virgin what does that leave that we shouldn't joke about? President OBummer? Nancy Pelotoski?
wow, seriously Bill? I think nobody will be able to meet your challenge of finding a Church Father who would crack a joke involving Mary or the pope but do we actually have any jokes from the Church Fathers at all? I don't think they were terribly concerned to pass on their sense of humor, but I'm confident they still had one. Likewise, the bible gives us no sense of what Jesus would have found funny, or that he ever laughed even, but I'm confident he did.
To fully address your concerns is a big endeavor, but I am going to propose that the burden is on you first. What is it about humor that it should exclude certain subjects altogether? Do you believe that humor is necessarily impious?
If you're going to get so high and mighty as to chastise the humorists here I think you owe us all a thorough explanation for your judgment! A simple, "don't do that" will not suffice.
That caption reminds me of when the Holy Father was at the Youth and Seminarian Rally in Yonkers, NY. At the end of his address to the youth he went to stand up, before his secratary came and said something to him in Italian. The Holy Father sat back down and simply said "Ah! I forgot my Spanish part!"
Adam, apparently I have a greater sense humor than you do. I have been banned here repeatedly for it. There's your problem. You and the others here can't take a joke on yourselves. e. wants to ban me right now and shoot me in the head.
I have many times said that humor is the first step in humility. But you people probably don't have the depth of understanding to realize that humor has to do with laughing at yourself not at the sacred.
"...Church Father who would crack a joke involving Mary or the pope but do we actually have any jokes from the Church Fathers at all?"
Well maybe that should tell you something.
"...the bible gives us no sense of what Jesus would have found funny, or that he ever laughed even...."
The only reference to laughing in the Bible that comes to mind is when Zachariah laughed, God struck him dumb. I keep wishing he would do that to some of you profane....
"...but I'm confident he did."
Didn't you read what I said about the lack of value in opinions. Maybe you should go back and reread that.
Oh yeah, Ham laughed at his father in his drunkeness. Things didn't bode well for Ham after that, but I bet you people can come with all kinds of excuses for Ham's laughing at Noe.
BILL, I AM SO HAPPY TO SEE THAT YOU ARE BETTER LIKED AND MORE ACCEPTED IN THIS PRESENT LIFE THAN YOU WERE AS RUSSLER 45.
Hey Spectatio, they're a little slow here. They never figured it out. And they don't think I have a sense of humor.
You can bet they won't laughing when they read this. ROFL ROFL ROFL
A little background for you folks. The Lone Ranger (i.e., John Reid) loves disguises and likes to use the screen name Rustler45 and sometimes Bill. Dan Reid, John Reid's nephew also likes to come here too. He is better known as The Green Hornet.
Ya think I'm just one guy doncha. Actually there are five of us.
Joke's on you. Now laugh your asses off!
ROFL ROFL ROFL
ENVY AND FALSE ACCUSATIONS THAT WE DON'T HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR.... NOBODY HAS AS MUCH FUN IN HERE AS WE DO. ITS SUUUUUCH A BLAST TO MAKE CAFETERIA CATHOLICS CRY.....WAAAA WAAAAA WAAAAA
Please calm down, Bill.
I just look at these posts as a light-hearted view of the Pope; even the Holy Father is going to do things that look smileworthy. Maybe I'm wrong, but gentle satire should not be considered the same as making fun of the Pope, the Virgin or Christ, even Jesus probably shared a few laughs with the apostles.
For the record, I am a Protestant, but I respect the Faith.
I love how you guys have learned how to use ctrl+c and ctrl+p. :)
Did you mean ctrl+c and ctrl+v?
With the caption as shown, it would make a great greeting card for newly ordained priests--a "don't despair; it could happen to anybody" sort of card. :)
Adam D -
One of the best sermons I ever heard was on Jesus' sense of humor.
I don't have the kind of gift for comedy that Father Pat does, but try picturing someone with a soup spoon, carefully removing a gnat and then swallowing a camel-- or someone complaining about a splinter in your eye when they've a tree in theirs.
It's borderline slap-stick with a lovely tinge of irony!
But what do I know? When I read Bill's post, I thought he meant "familiarity breeds contempt" because of all the folks just walking past the Holy Father.
Ooh! This is a great chance to tell one of my favorite religious jokes!
Protestant: "Why do you Catholics pray to Mary?"
Catholic: "To ask her to ask Jesus for things."
Protestant: "Why not just ask him directly?"
Catholic: "Well, Jesus was a good Jewish boy, growing up, right?"
Protestant: "Right... So?"
Catholic: "Good Jewish boys will always listen to their mothers."
Considering the number of Vatican readers AmP has, I wouldn't be surprised if a PPOTD or two have been posted on a Vatican bulletin board at some point. :)
The same guy talking to himself in a half dozen or so aliases. But each saying the same old thing repeated over and over again. Harmony in the round I suppose. But boring.
"Did you mean ctrl+c and ctrl+v?" lol, you're totally right! :)
Yeah, I'm wondering if he's on a dial-up because he appears to get around the haloscan bans... maybe someone using public computers? Sigh. Back to the administrative page....
Seems like sociopathic behavior.
Or maybe he's (they're?) a reincarnation of Flann O'Brien?
*laughs*
"Sure, I go by a bunch of aliases, but you're messed up for noticing! I shall now call you names!"
Yea, that's a real good way of keeping the Lord's day holy.
At least His Holiness has a good sense of humor!
This troll too shall pass.
what are you guys smokin'?sometimes i feel like it is just me,ed and jesus.
"It was one of [St. Philip Neri's] maxims that a man who cannot endure the loss of honour is incapable of making progress in spiritual things... he kept his children in an incessant exercise of mortification...
"...everyone was astonished... at the great joy he evinced whenever he heard that he was ridiculed...."
And so it is that trolls are a great blessing.
I wonder if the Obama forces provide Rustler45 with an honorarium. If not, they should.
That's Saint Sid to you.
I wish that everyone posting here could remember about charity.
As promised, Rustler45's comments are being deleted before I read them, and I'm working on a more comprehensive ban. Sorry in the meantime about the troll, please refrain from feeding him.
I bet you're a real hit at parties, Bil.
"There are some things that should not be joked about."
But Mary and Jesus are not things. Ha. :-P
(my sincerest sympathies Thomas. One would think that someone unfunny and unwelcome would move on and cease wasting time. One would, apparently and unfortunately, be wrong.)
"Sorry in the meantime about the troll, please refrain from feeding him."
Posted before I got the memo. Sorry.
Where Rustler came from and when:
From over at the "Catholics for Obama" blog when Kurt said...
That last one was good, Rustler. Have you been over to http://www.americanpapist.com/blog.html ?
They need to hear from you.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
I like the way everyone who disagrees with them must really be just one person.
Btw, I've done a bit of research over the weekend. It seems that St. Philip Neri did in fact not scruple to play his holy jokes in church, or order those under his spiritual direction to do silly things during the Liturgy of the Hours or Mass. And of course the good saint even pronounced the words of Mass badly on purpose on at least one occasion so that he would sound like a fool, even though his ars celebrandi was normally as spotless as possible.
So it would seem that Jesus, Mary, and St. Philip Neri approve of a bit of foolery and fun, even during the Divine Liturgy. "Rejoice in the Lord always."
Now the troll is plagiarizing my alias.
I am not American and could not vote for Obama even if I wanted to.
Sorry about that fausto, I'll be more aggressive about patrolling the comment boxes for this sort of abuse.
Tap 3 times. "There's no place like Residenza Papale" Tap 3 times. "There's no place like Residenza Papale " . . .
Anyone who doesn't think God has a good sense of humor, should read
1 Samuel 5 and 6. Can you imagine being the Philistine's royal goldsmith? "I need to make 5 WHAT??! Can't we just send flowers and chocolate?"
"Nein, nein! Zis is not za 'Kit-Kat Club' und I am not Joel Grey!"
"General comment: Any resemblance to direct engagement of trolls, real or imagined, is not intended."
IMVeryHO, I don't think Pope Benedict would care whether someone is making innocent, lighthearted jokes about a humorous still photograph of someone that is loved and admired. Saint Therese's mother, IIRC, mimicked people for the amusement of family. Pretty interesting, no?
*I* care whether someone continues to visit somewhere he is not welcome, harasses and insults the blogger, then complains when he is banned. If I know anything telltale sign of when a person is really interested in a constructive conversation about that which he has professed concerns, I don't see that here. Too bad.
"Sorry about that fausto, I'll be more aggressive about patrolling the comment boxes for this sort of abuse."
Oh poor poor faustie! That's just sooooooooo awful.
They should quit picking on you girls. It's just not fair.
This Tom is a troll.
How does Tom know the gender of comboxers? His(?) powers amaze me..
David, it's really easy. They're petty coats are showing and the nagging never ceases.
This is nice lake to troll in. I never cease to hook a guppie.
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