Doper to place that phrase gets slice of pie.
John 11:35
Want pie now.
Wouldn’t a castrated priest have trouble fulfiilling his duty to molest choirboys?
Ok you have my permission for pie (I will no longer actively attempt to deny it to you), but i was looking for a more contemporary reference (find it = permission for more pie).
[Withholds wry remark for fear of offending]
Note: I am Catholic - believe you me, I can dish 'em out!
Panati’s Extraordinary Endings Of Practically Everything And Everybody has a section on singing castrati. (An earlier part of the castration section, is where I originally read that verse of Matthew).
Paul forbade women from singing in church. For high notes, you used boys or falsettos. I don’t know who first thought of adding castrati to the choirs. Singing castrati date back to Rome. Parents hoping for a good singing voice, would castrate their son, or have a village surgeon do it, and then lie to the priests. ‘It was necessary to stop a fever and save his life’ ‘he was attacked by an angry pig’ (Panati says the pig story was used quite frequently) etc. The priests no more believed this than you or I believe the big sign in the Greatful Dead Smoke Shop that says ‘All products for tobacco use only’. But, they winked and accepted the singers.
Pope Pius IX condemned castration for sake of a singing career in a bull in 1851) But, the Vatican kept accepting castrati until Pius X stopped it-around 1900.
Hellraiser, opening teaser.
I like whipped cream on my pie.
Oh, and Hoodoo, I’m Catholic and deeply resent that priests molesting choirboys wisecrack.
If this was deliberate, it’s brilliant. If it was an error, it’s still damn funny!
Asbestos Mango
I’m Jewish. I still resent that remark.
Guinastasia I just remembered, you’re a lapsed Catholic. Instead of asking us about castrati and the church, shouldn’t you be consulting your families bookshelves or the local clergy who would be so happy to see you more than twice a year?
Hmmm…maybe it would be in the encyclopedia in the back of the Bible.
And at any rate, I don’t do the “twice a year” or even “once a year” anymore.
So, I’m wrong in assuming that besides the books your family actually reads, there’s a copy of Penguin’s Book Of Saints, ‘The Catechism In Simple English’, ‘the lives of the Popes’, and that in some garage or closet are parochial school textbooks?
[Rod Flanders]
Guinastasia makes baby Jesus cry
[/Rod Flanders]
OMG you are my hero. The Asbestos Mango is granted permission for all the whipped cream and pie she/he can comfortably handle.
Nope, not as far as I’m aware. Old school textbooks, I doubt since those were owned by the school-we didn’t keep them. At most, we probably have some old missiles but those just have readings from Masses, no Catholic encylopedias. And those would be in the attic, and I’m not about to go rooting around up there.
Sorry. My grandfather might have something like that, but I’d just as soon go to the library than go ask him or my grandmother.