I am unable to vote for more than one in this poll even tho it says vote for up to 3
It worked for me.
I went with Anacletus, Lando, and Severinus, because those were the funniest names on the list.
Megan.
goddammit.
That’s what I get for submitting before trying to remember more Foxes.
I mean, you found a lot of foxes!
I said “Francis” because I think muttering “Lighten up, Francis!” after serious papal announcements is funny, and Peter because they would hate it.
I couldn’t answer the last pole because I am Catholic by baptism (sort of) and heritage, but I don’t actually believe any of it, so I’m also agnostic etc. It’s easier to identify as “not Christian” than as “not Catholic” for some reason.
Fun fact: the names are (usually) listed in the order I think of them (except for Zorro in this case, I had to end with Zorro). You can see I almost missed Mulder.
I hear Avignon is nice this time of year.
My father met the RC Pope and was blessed by him, despite not being Catholic.
Although the fact that it was Pius XII takes some of the shine off of that.
I think Hilarius is the funniest name on the list.
That’s odd. I’m apparently unable to vote for only one. – I was going to vote for Dionysius, but that’s because I had him confused with Dionysus.
I carry my phone in the pocket on my work cargo pants (which are nearly always what I’m wearing because, pockets) which appears to be designed for it; and possibly to be designed for that specific phone, because on my oldest pants it’s hard to fit in but it fits easily and perfectly in that pocket on the newer pants. It’s a flip phone designed for rough and/or wet working environments.
Too late to edit:
– oh, and if I were actually convinced that an angel of God had spoken to me, I wouldn’t be an atheist any longer. So since at least for those versions of God I am one now, how am I supposed to answer that?
(And if it’s not a prank, does that mean it’s not one of the prankster gods speaking?)
I chose the papal names Lando (because of the Star Wars connection), Linus (for Peanuts, naturally) and Conon (because it’s closest to Conan, either O’Brien or The Barbarian). My favorite non-funny papal name is Clement.
I’m an Episcopalian (the American offshoot of the Church of England), but have read quite a bit about the Papacy over the years, have a number of Catholic friends, and think I could maybe get the hang of the job. There’d be some big changes a-comin’, though: after my first conclave I’d rule that clergy could marry (I already am, and there’s no way I’m divorcing my true love just because I’ll be dressing in white the rest of my life), women and gay people could be priests, and I’d take a very hard line against pedo priests and those who shielded or promoted them. I’d also do all I could to reunite the C of E, the Episcopal Church and the RCC.
I’ve gotten maybe a dozen speeding tickets over the years, and I think two running-red-lights tickets (one of which was bogus; the light was clearly yellow). I also got an obstructed-windshield ticket when I was working for a political campaign in New Hampshire years ago (I had a campaign poster over the windshield, but was driving slowly on backroads and could see just fine).
I wear neckties Monday through Friday at court, and Sundays when I go to church. I can easily tie both a four-in-hand knot and a bowtie.
My cellphone is usually in my front left jacket pocket.
I also went with amusement factor:
Lando (Star Wars) - So I could say “This deal’s getting worse all the time” every time there was a Catholic fuckup.
Hilarius - The joke is just built in!
Cornelius - because every time I get to talk about them, I’m pronouncing it like Leeloo in 5th Element.
That’s by design. As stated in the question, you must select exactly three names. I set both the “min” and “max” parameters of the poll code to 3.
Assuming Josh Ritter is this Josh Ritter:
He had my vote. 
I have his album
Which plays frequently in my Dave Gibson Band based playlist.
Based on your current status. Obviously once God pops up and says “Hello!”, atheism goes right out the window.
I got many speeding tickets in my youth. They were all legitimate. I got one ticket for not having an inspection sticker. My car was inspected and I had a receipt, which I showed the cop. I needed headlight adjustment screws for my MG Midget and it took me months to find them, searching auto graveyards.
The cop was a dick. He told me I should have had my car towed to the shop to get my sticker applied, which would have cost half the amount of the ticket he wrote me.
An angel appears to me? I’d assume it was a delusion.
Apropos of today’s poponomastic poll, I must say that “Sixtus the Sixth” has a nice ring to it.
I’m confused. How did you get inspected (therefor having the receipt) but not have the sticker? In NY the shop that does the inspection applies the sticker. If for some reason they don’t where you are, wouldn’t they at least have given you the sticker? in which case why would you have needed to tow the car in to get it?
Do you mean that you didn’t have a sticker because the car failed inspection because the headlights weren’t adjusted properly? But in that case, if you kept driving the car, the ticket would have been accurate and the cop wasn’t being a dick by giving you one – but it also wouldn’t have helped to tow the car to the shop if they couldn’t adjust the headlights, so telling you to do so wouldn’t have made any sense.
That would be my first reaction – a delusion or a human-created fake; but the poll specifies that the person who’s spoken to by the angel is convinced that it’s real.