# Friends in High Places **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 16, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-in-high-places/207856 "2003-10-16T20:18:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-in-high-places/207856/1 "2003-10-16T20:18:19Z")
In this article, [http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/16/pope.anniversary/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/16/pope.anniversary/index.html), the Pope says God asked him to keep being the Pope. Heh. What has God asked YOU to do lately? ---
**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:** [October 16, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-in-high-places/207856/2 "2003-10-16T21:18:55Z")
Hey, you don’t suppose God made a mistake and had really meant to contact Cecil so he could tell him to keep doing the “Dope”, do you? Nah, I didn’t think so, either. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-in-high-places/207856/3 "2003-10-16T21:52:49Z")
Not much, all the other voices in my head must be drowning His out. ---
**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-in-high-places/207856/4 "2003-10-16T22:26:29Z")
She asked me to do the washing up. I refused. She cut off my marriage privileges. I caved in. I did the washing up. Now I’m off too bed. 🙂 V ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-in-high-places/207856/5 "2003-10-17T20:48:22Z")
I thought only Joan of Ark heard voices **Zenster**?? Hold on let me ask God …ah…he is sounding a litle like Barry Manilow right now. He is somewhere in New Englad…got taken away…looking for Lola cause she is a showgirl… ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-in-high-places/207856/6 "2003-10-17T22:42:52Z")
I was only partly awake, but I think he said I should call in a pledge to my public radio station. He was really persistent, and talking in three different voices. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-in-high-places/207856/7 "2003-10-17T23:13:54Z")
To tell the pope that he’s been hearing voices. To think for myself. Waste time on the SDMB… wait, or was that my concience? ---
**Author:** ![BellaDellaItalia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BellaDellaItalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellaDellaItalia)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-in-high-places/207856/8 "2003-10-17T23:23:36Z")
To tell you guys to get out more ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-in-high-places/207856/9 "2003-10-17T23:35:14Z")
God said that if I welcomed BellaDellaItalia to SDMB that I would get baked ziti in the mail. Welcome, Bella. I’ve been waiting for two months for you to show up.