# The official Pope Benedict XVI thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 19, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-pope-benedict-xvi-thread/300079 "2005-04-19T16:41:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-pope-benedict-xvi-thread/300079/161 "2005-04-23T09:57:57Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > Anyone know the Latin word for Bubba? I resent the “Bubba” connotation. My father was born in Fort Smith, AR, in 1920. Nobody I know called HIM “Bubba.” He was strong enough to lift three bags of concrete mix (each weighing ninety pounds) at once. And I voted for Bill Clinton both times he ran… Who wants to be the first to throw a stone? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-pope-benedict-xvi-thread/300079/162 "2005-04-23T13:08:06Z")
Dougie, is this really the first time you’ve heard that Bill Clinton has the nickname Bubba? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-pope-benedict-xvi-thread/300079/163 "2005-04-23T14:59:12Z")
Incidentally, the Latin for Bubba would probably be _Frater_, as, to my understanding, “Bubba” means “brother”, originally. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-pope-benedict-xvi-thread/300079/164 "2005-04-23T20:02:04Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > Dougie, is this really the first time you’ve heard that Bill Clinton has the nickname Bubba? In fact, it is. I had heard “Slick Willie” and other epithets. You can be sure I could, if prodded, com up with some cute nicknames for Bush I and Bush II, and for Reagan as well. The only real “Bubba” I ever heard of was Bubba Smith, who played in the Super Bowl. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-pope-benedict-xvi-thread/300079/165 "2005-04-23T21:18:55Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > The only real “Bubba” I ever heard of was Bubba Smith, who played in the Super Bowl. What, you’ve never heard of Bubba the Love Sponge? [http://www.btls.com/](http://www.btls.com/) Now that dude’s pope material! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-pope-benedict-xvi-thread/300079/166 "2005-04-24T06:41:27Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > What, you’ve never heard of Bubba the Love Sponge? [http://www.btls.com/](http://www.btls.com/) Now that dude’s pope material! 🙂 Bubba the Love Sponge? I can’t say that I have…is he any relation to Spongebob Squarepants? Hyuk hyuk 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-pope-benedict-xvi-thread/300079/167 "2005-04-24T14:31:15Z")
> [@](#): > > You can be sure I could, if prodded, com up with some cute nicknames for Bush I and Bush II, and for Reagan as well. If you’re implying I’d be upset if you said unflattering things about any of these men, then that’s a second one that’s flown over your head. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-pope-benedict-xvi-thread/300079/168 "2005-04-25T07:04:15Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > then that’s a second one that’s flown over your head. Would you explain this metaphor? 😕 Before you ask: No, I don’t expect you to get upset, from what you imply. I’ve been so sick of hearing unflattering things about Clinton or Carter or Kennedy; nobody seems to say anything uncomplimentary about the Republicans. Even the tabloids don’t criticize them, which implies something to me about who owns them. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-pope-benedict-xvi-thread/300079/169 "2005-04-25T13:58:39Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > By the time the war was over, he had deserted his post in the German army. A lot of loyal Nazis did that, when they realized the Reich was doomed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-pope-benedict-xvi-thread/300079.md?page=8)