I am not a looney! Why should I be attired with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabardo has a pet prawn called Simon - you wouldn't call him a looney - furthermore, Dawn Pailthorpe, the lady show-jumper, had a clam, called Stafford, after the late Chancellor, Allan Bullock has two pikes, both called Chris, and Marcel Proust had an haddock! So, if you're calling the author of 'A la recherche du temps perdu' a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside!

All right, all right. You want a licence?

I think the Pope is dead.

The Pope is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. This is a late Pope. He's a stiff. Bereft of life, he rests in peace. If he hadn't been embalmed and laid in state, he would be pushing up daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. He is an ex-Pope.

(I'm so very, very sorry)

Damn but I can not give you more mojo at this time, mousepod!

(Are you sure he's not pining for the fjords?)

Why am I reading this thread? I'm not Catholic and I want nothing to do with Python. I must be a masochist. :rolleyes:

I think the Pope needs FastPass.

I am very sorry, but I must interrupt this thread.



It is getting entirely too silly.

I heard yesterday, on KFI, that he wasn't actually embalmbed. Just prepared for viewing. They speculated that meant makeup and a lot of cologne.

If he's not embalmbed, just how long will he...um....last there like that? :eek:

He's gonna melt like a chocolate bunny in the window of a Winabego.

On another level: I've heard that the recently dead sometimes have involuntary movement. Like, what would happen if suddenly the Pope's legs flew up, or if his arm swung out or even worse if he passed some gas (aka fart) during one of those quiet moments.

We'd see it all on CNN. One more reason to watch...