Michael Jackson’s too broke to hope to buy the straight lycanthrope pope dope on a rope, copping a grope’s bones?
Nope.
Are we on a slippery slope, headed straight to hell?
Peace,
mangeorge
Reminded me more of Star Trek, where a dead Klingon is jabbed with their equivalent of cattle prods to make sure they’re actually dead.
Do they still make the Pope sit on the chair with a hole in the bottom to check if he really is a he? 
And I couldn’t get that link to work but some of the posted jokes lack humour and good taste.
From the cited site:
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?” after each stroke, before saying: “I declare that His Holiness Pope Pius XII is truly dead”.
Quote from the diminutive Cardinal Munchkin (AKA “The Coroner”):
“And he’s not only meeeerly dead, he’s really most sinceeeeeerly dead.”
I agree. In the future, when I click on a thread promising jokes about the death of the pope, I expect everything will be in impeccable taste.
What happened to the pure, innocent pope-death jokes that used to bring smiles to our faces while watching Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best? Where are the pope-death jokes that I can tell my elderly grandmother without offending her?
The world is changing too fast, I tell you.
lol, I didn’t mean that far, some just seemed nasty for the sake of being nasty, not humourous 
If on the third day he rose from the dead, would he be charged for blasphemy?
It’s supposed to be shock humor. If you didn’t find it funny, you’re probably too sensitive.
I’ve heard the “chair” story too. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if it were true.
Does anybody have the Straight Dope? Should I search?
Unhhh!
I don’t wanna.
Or maybe its just not funny 
I was thinking the same thing.
The biggest problem with most shock humor is that the writer remembers to include the shock part, but not the humor part. Shock in and of itself? Meh.
ROTFL, more likely they’d begin an exorcism. 
The divorced future King of England postpones his remarriage to attend the Pope’s funeral.
Snopes weighs in on the silver hammer bit. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to know any more than us Teeming Millions.
As a non-Catholic there is one thing I do not get. I keep seeing and hearing about Cardinals. What exactly makes St Louis so important to the religion?
I know you’re just trying to be funny, but this is the type of ingnorance that we’re trying to fight here, not encourage.
It’s the *Arizona * Cardinals.
“But I’m not dead…”
“Shut up. You’re not fooling anyone.”
Oooops. I should have known that. I love watching them play the LA Rams.
Whilst on a cruise around Cape Hope as a way to cope?
We here at the Dope can hope.