The game show host had a real knack for insulting the contestants but getting away with it because of his cheeky northern charm and affable manner.
May the Lord forgive me, but there have been times during Pope Francis's pontificate when I looked back to the conclave and thought of 'what we might have won'. At the time of the conclave I was running a subtle prayer campaign for a Great Excommunicator like Cardinal Burke. The whole Bullseye scenario did cross my mind. Basically, Bulleye was a little bit cruel because after a couple of contestants had gambled all the prizes they had won during the show on the 'Star Prize' (a holiday in Spain or a yacht or something equally glamourous) and lost, Jim would kindly then show them 'what you could have won'. Then they'd go home looking visibly narked off. Well...you would, wouldn't you?
Surely you're too young to remember this... surely ;-)
ReplyDeleteSome months ago there was a picture of the Holy Father when as Archbishop of BA he was photographed on public transport. I thought that he looked a dead ringer for Alastair Sim
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ReplyDeletethis is my favourite Bishop Bergoglio lookalike:
http://cheezburger.com/7135981824
just place on a white yarmulke and everything starts to make sense.
apparently bishop bergoglio has just said that a Church without nuns is 'unimaginable'. Poor, lamb. What a sheltered life he's lived. If only he knew that most of the Church doesn't have to imagine, that live a Church wihtout nun week in week out. And if there are nuns, well, these days, its don't ask, don't tell.
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