# AP Headline: "Pope Makes Surprise Appearance at Window" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863 "2005-03-16T19:12:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/21 "2005-03-16T21:20:06Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#): > > That’s when Cardinal Richelieu impersonators come in handy! You know, I heard that Elvis was once a Cardinal Richelieu impersonator. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/22 "2005-03-16T21:28:18Z")
Meh. The Pope appearing at your bathroom window? Not so surprising. The Pope, chopping through your bathroom door with an axe, thrusting his face into the gap and shouting “Heeeeeere’s John Paul?” A bit more surprising. Let me know when he does that, OK? Oh, and **Eve**? I doubt I’ve ever been happier to see someone’s name above a post. Thank you for coming back. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/23 "2005-03-16T21:37:01Z")
Damn, my attempt to combine whuthering heights with the pope wasn’t one half as funny as the last post, and in much less space too. Oh, well, welcome back, Eve. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/24 "2005-03-16T21:57:46Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#): > > That’s when Cardinal Richelieu impersonators come in handy! …the best of whom is Richelieu Little. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/25 "2005-03-16T22:24:54Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > …the best of whom is Richelieu Little. “…and in market news today, **pinkfreud** ’s value skyrocked on the Briston Exchange following a brilliantly horrible pun…” ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/26 "2005-03-16T22:33:42Z")
> [@Scott\_plaid](#): > > Damn, my attempt to combine whuthering heights with the pope wasn’t one half as funny as the last post, and in much less space too. Oh, well, welcome back, Eve. Actually, it was nearly as extinct as the Brontësaurus! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/27 "2005-03-16T22:34:36Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > “…and in market news today, **pinkfreud** ’s value skyrocked on the Briston Exchange following a brilliantly horrible pun…” Why, thank you, Mr. **Briston**. However, it should be noted that **pinkfreud** is still a privately-held company. The hubby and Chief Operating Officer of **pinkfreud** insists upon that. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BethCro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@BethCro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BethCro)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/28 "2005-03-16T22:37:52Z")
Could be worse … Arturo Mari, the official papal photographer, could have been there as well. > **['I have to be there'](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/mar/16/photography.catholicism)** > > As the Vatican's official photographer for the past 50 years, Arturo Mari has served John Paul II faithfully, just as he did the four Popes before him. Doesn't he ever tire of capturing the same face 16 hours a day, 365 days a year? By Stephen Moss... ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/29 "2005-03-16T22:47:07Z")
Grrroaannnnnn, what a horrible pun. :eek: I can’t believe I ate the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/30 "2005-03-16T22:56:53Z")
Well of course she’s back. She had to come back what with the news of the return of the faggots! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/31 "2005-03-16T23:06:28Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > Why, thank you, Mr. **Briston**. However, it should be noted that **pinkfreud** is still a privately-held company. The hubby and Chief Operating Officer of **pinkfreud** insists upon that. 😛 Quite all right. My wife frowns on any Briston Exchange that doesn’t involve her, anyway. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/32 "2005-03-16T23:19:05Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > _EEEEK!_ I was in the shower!! Ha! Wouldn’t you wish? After all the Pope’s one the world’s most eligible bachelors. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/33 "2005-03-16T23:32:38Z")
Somehow I can’t shake the image of a leering Pope leaning up to the window saying “Who’s _il papa_? Who’s _il papa_?” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/34 "2005-03-16T23:38:30Z")
Did he see his shadow? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/35 "2005-03-17T00:45:57Z")
That Pope . . . sometimes he’s such a . . . a . . . _primate!_ ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/36 "2005-03-17T00:49:00Z")
You’re back! /smothers Eve with kisses, spritzes her with a little Chanel #5, and strews rose petals in her path. Don’t leave us again, please! /makes big bambi eyes at her. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/37 "2005-03-17T00:53:40Z")
Wait till you see what he left behind in the woods! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/38 "2005-03-17T02:22:26Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > /smothers Eve with kisses, spritzes her with a little Chanel #5, and strews rose petals in her path. _Chanel?! That_ Nazi whore?! [gratefully returns the kisses, but uses rose petals to get the stink of Nazi perfume off self] [Pope leers through window] ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/39 "2005-03-17T02:34:34Z")
The Pope may be outside your shower, but [he’s](http://www.asos.com/product.asp?sku=BGINO6087) inside mine. Okay, not really, but I would use it if someone gave me one. Hint, hint. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-pope-makes-surprise-appearance-at-window/294863/40 "2005-03-17T03:48:12Z")
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