according to MSNBC. What’s not to believe? That a sick and elderly human being died?
I can see how it’s sad when people die young, but not when the person had a full life
and dies old. Sometimes I think people just don’t really accept that death is part of life and everyone dies.
You can bet Jack Chick is seething about all the Pope glurge.
In fact, I think he’s already started a message board thread on the subject here.
Yeah, but think of what would have happened if he’d have held on for another week or so. No doubt there’d be 24/7 coverage of every announcement that they’d just changed the Pope’s colostemy bag, etc., etc., etc. Now we get to skip all that, go through the period of mourning (filled with endless retrospectives of the Pope’s life), the selection of the new Pope (he’s not like New Coke, we swear), with all it’s scenes of blathering commentators speculating wildly on who’ll they’ll pick, followed by endless retrospectives and speculations on what the new Pope will do, once he’s finally selected. As it is now, it should all be wrapped up in a month. Had the Pope lasted any longer, it would have gone on and on.
Yeah, wait until the 24-hour “what’s happening NOW” meets up with the completely isolated from the world conclave.
“Well, Chet, the conclave has been in session for five minutes now, and there is still no smoke from the chimney. Now to David for some insight on what this development could mean.”
Wow, that’s just surreal. I don’t think that it was Chick, though, he hasn’t said anything about Satan or the “Death Cookie” that I can tell.
Maybe it’s just a lot of young people like me, people who don’t remember any other pope?
When a person dies he takes one of two routes. One is a rather hot. The other one leads to Purgatory where he spends a certain amount of time being cleansed of his sins until he is ready to go to the glowly place with the harps. Yes, all people have sins. Prayers speed up the cleaning process. Or so says Dante.
As for praying to him, maybe that guy misspoke or maybe he’s an idiot.
Guin, wow, I always thought of you as an older person. Like 35-40. Take that as you will.
They just wheeled out a catholic journalist on BBC Radio 5. He explained that we had just lost the only world moral authority. He had an electricity about him. Also he was magnetic. I switched off at that point, so I may never know if he had any other strange electro-magnetic characteristics.
I not only remember the last pope, I remember the glurge when he died. Actually, back then, honoring a passed pope meant local TV stations leaving an image of his holiness up for hours with soft hymn music playing in the background.
I got nuttin’ against ol’ popey. I think he had a good run and it was time to go. The new pope will have a tall order – to save the RCC from obsolescence.
you know, if you don’t want to see it, you *can *turn your tv off.
Maybe in a couple weeks you can get back to your regularly scheduled saturday afternoon ‘can’t miss tv’ programs.
The last pope was only pope for a month and he was only in his sixties, so that was probably because it was totally out of left field. I don’t remember that, unfortunately, since I was only a month old, or whatever.
Like I said, I don’t MIND the glurge, because at least it’s someone like the pope, who’s a huge figure. It cuts out the Terri Schiavo fanatics.
I’m really looking forward to seeing a papal election, this’ll be the first in my memory!
(Just please, dear GOD, don’t let it be Ratzinger! PLEASE!)
Wouldnt that be a monkumentary?
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Yes, I remember that too. I was lead to believe that popes didn’t last long, what with two going so close together.
OK…this was hilarious.
As for me, I haven’t even switched on my tv today, after last nights Popefest, I figured he would kick sometime today, and didn’t want any parts of it.
I’ve got a shiny new stack of DVD’s, and I plan to keep myself occupied (and totally isolated from network tv and cable news) until this is over.
Hooo-boy, that is both the best and most concise summary of current TV Hell I’ve seen.
You know what? For the past couple months, I’ve been watching the Sci-Fi channel. I used to hate that damn network, or watever it is. I still do, for the most part. But when I’m working out in my basement, or I’m too fried after the lab for anything else, and just want to vegetate, whatever it is that glowing blue tube is feeding my passive brain, I want it to resemble the world of TV news as little as possible.
Plus, danged but ain’t Battlestar Galactica a pretty good show. Who knew.
It is interesting that the TV news channels have all decided that virtually nothing else that has happened in the last 48 hours or so is worth covering. I suspect they are wrong.
Yeah. For one thing, what’s the current status of Generalissimo Francisco Franco?
It would be a great opportunity for us to invade Dominica* without repercussions. What with the Pope has just died/Pope is still dead/Pope will be buried/The pope has just been buried/Who will be the new pope?/Who is the new pope/Background stories on the new pope/Etc. nobody will notice.
*Dominica’s name is confusingly similar to my country’s name. If we gain control of them we will force them to change their name. 
I heard he was dead, but they retracted that. Then they said, “No, he’s still dead.”