# The 52 Funniest Things about the Upcoming Death of the Pope...

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**Created:** [March 4, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-52-funniest-things-about-the-upcoming-death-of-the-pope/292893 "2005-03-04T14:10:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![SCCajun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@SCCajun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCCajun)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-52-funniest-things-about-the-upcoming-death-of-the-pope/292893/81 "2005-04-09T19:05:32Z")

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> [@Casey1505](#):
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> And if he was blessing an attractive woman’s chest, would he be straight lycanthrope pope dope on a rope, copping a grope?

Ok, but what if he had homosexual tendencies, but was disillusioned and giving up, would he be the…

gay straight lycanthrope mopey pope dope on a rope, copping a grope, without a hope and unable to cope

???

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**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-52-funniest-things-about-the-upcoming-death-of-the-pope/292893/82 "2005-04-14T18:20:57Z")

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> [@Tenar](#):
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> One colleague remembers a picture in Life magazine (which I have not had time to look for) in 1958 showing Cardinal Tisserant, then Dean of the College of Cardinals, striking the dead Pope on the forehead and asking, three times, “Eugenio, are you dead?”

What if he’d have said “Yes”? :eek:

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