Anatomy of a thought:

[camwyn]

Oo, the cable went out at the office. So sad.

LJ says we have white smoke.

Habemus papam.

Habemus = we have. Papam should be obvious.

'We have', 'we've got', not so different.

'We've got', 'we got'…

Oh no.

Please don't tell me somebody in the Vatican just got a piece of paper from where the cardinals have been locked up, read the paper, slammed his hand down on a bell, and screamed "WE GOT ONE!" in Latin.

rassum frassum stinkin' friggin' brain.

(edited after the fact to correct my Latin)

Comments

[camwyn]

Checked, fixed, but still the ref's a good one.

"He says they've already got one!"
"Can we come see it?"
"No! YOu are Church of English types!"

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

*snork*

Then they chuck all the other cardinals off the balcony with a trebuchet, to much applause.

[camwyn]

"Fetchez les évêques!"
"Qua?"
"Fetchez les évêques!"
"Oh! Oh, oh."
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"JEEZUS CHROIST!"
*whumph*

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

I will not draw this. I will not.

[cheezdanish.livejournal.com]

OH YES YOU WILL.

[mephron]

Come on. You know you want to draw a Cardinal-flinger in action.

Give in to the dark side. We have our own M&Ms now.

[camwyn]

Quick note- the word I used is the word for bishops, or was when last I checked. I just wanted something that sounded more French than 'fetchez les cardinales!' to correspond to 'fetchez la vache!'.

[mephron]

OK.

I just like the rhythm of 'Cardinal-Flinger'.

[camwyn]

Agreed. It works much better than Bishop-Flinger. 'm just doing the disclosure gig.

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I'm now trying to make a joke tying that to the Avignon papacy and the antipopes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope).

*shakes head*

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

I was just going to say isn't it a pity the papacy is no longer based in Avignon, so I could do French Pope jokes and be justified.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

If you're willing to do it from a liberal slant, you can easily be left-justified.

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

Okay, now that one broke my brain.

[mephron]

If you bring a pope and an antipope together, do they explode into a bunch of frankincense and myrrh?

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

I was figuring gamma rays (http://www.livejournal.com/users/littleshebear/223377.html) myself, but hey, that works even better!

[camwyn]

The problem is that if that happens and there are other clergy standing nearby, the next thing you get is "GRRRAR! CARDINAL SMASH!"

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

*ded*

In which the problem is getting the cardinals on your side before the antipope comes to visit.

[camwyn]

"WHY PUNY CATHOLICS TORMENT HULK? HULK LEAST FALLIBLE ONE THERE IS!"

[mephron]

Well, they always said that the antipope was an Abomination...

I guess then you'd have the cardinal who became the Leader of the conclave..

Too bad there's no women involved. The idea of the Nun-Hulk won't work.

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

I think they disappear in a puff of logic.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Studies on pope/antipope interaction are limited due to a lack of field experiments, but I bet if you hide a gram of antipope under the Sistine Chapel during conclave and pretend it's the Illuminati, it will eventually explode in a cloud of really bad writing.

[mephron]

So it's governed by the laws of Dan Brownian motion, then.

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

I think I love you.

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

*faints*

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

*TWITCH*