Choose a pope!

**aido_b** · 20/04/2005, 12:29 AM

Hey there!

Aint guna ly to ya'll but im pretty drunk while psting this but i was thinking wouldn't it be great caric if Billy Connolly had of ben elected as our new pope, i mean mass would be so much fun!

So who would u have as your celebrity pope !?!??!?!!?!

thecorner · 20/04/2005, 3:22 AM

Originally Posted by aido_b

Aint guna ly to ya'll but im pretty drunk :

awwwwwwww.. the bohs fan had 2 pints

no need to be drowing your sorrows for your pitiful season just yet

**aido_b** · 20/04/2005, 9:20 AM

apologies for above, dont think anyone can blame me after the start to the season we've had!

**KR's Post** · 20/04/2005, 9:27 AM

Originally Posted by aido_b

So who would u have as your celebrity pope !?!??!?!!?!

Peter Kay without a shadow of a doubt!!!

**Peadar** · 20/04/2005, 9:49 AM

David Brent

**carrickharp** · 20/04/2005, 10:28 AM

Ian Paisley

**Lim till i die** · 20/04/2005, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by dublinharp

Ian Paisley

No pope in Ireland

**sligoman** · 20/04/2005, 11:56 AM

Gerry Adams

. Ah no Pat Shortt, such craic

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p.s. Is Pat was unavailable then Margaret Thatcher(first woman pope)

**OwlsFan** · 20/04/2005, 2:44 PM

I wonder is the new pope a news hound ? He's called Papa Ratzi after all

**Babysis** · 20/04/2005, 3:01 PM

Im with Pauro7, Father Dougal for Pope

**holidaysong** · 20/04/2005, 3:02 PM

Originally Posted by OwlsFan

I wonder is the new pope a news hound ? He's called Papa Ratzi after all

You're not getting away with that one..

**Bosco** · 20/04/2005, 4:20 PM

Originally Posted by OwlsFan

I wonder is the new pope a news hound ? He's called Papa Ratzi after all

Or PapaNazi

**Eire06** · 20/04/2005, 4:21 PM

Originally Posted by Bosco

Or PapaNazi

ignorance is bliss.. wouldn't you know your from longford

**Eire06** · 20/04/2005, 4:38 PM

Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy

er . . in fairness there, he was a member of the Hitler Youth.

Oh Ignorance is wide spread not just in longford
Don't start it up again...

**ollie** · 20/04/2005, 4:49 PM

Fr.jack.

if we could resurect him i'd say fr.ted.very short mass which suits me fine

**Lionel Ritchie** · 20/04/2005, 5:42 PM

Originally Posted by Eire06

Oh Ignorance is wide spread not just in longford
Don't start it up again...

Sorry Eire06 but neither you nor Oberleutnant Ratziger of the Luftwaffe are getting off the hook on this one. There's already a concerted attempt to liken his service to der fuerhrer as being akin to a stint in the boy scouts and it aint washing.

He joined or was enlisted in the hitler youth at 14 (that's 1941) and saw at least some active service from 1943 onwards (two full years before the war ended).

Now I'm not going to condemn him for not being a conchie (there were conchies in Hitlers Germany and they got a torrid time). Plenty of good people were too scared to stand up and say I'm not fighting for this.

Plenty more didn't support Hitler but weren't going to sit back while Bomber Harris powderised german cities needlessly either.

BUT -this guy has nearly two years of active service and we know relatively little about what he or his unit got up to in that time.

But it was no boy scout trip -no FCA-esque larking about either. He wore that grey uniform with the little silver eagle dangling a swastika on his chest. FACT.

**hamish** · 20/04/2005, 5:51 PM

I heard on BBC this morning that a lot of people in his home town were hung for not joining the army. Also heard a brutal "joke" on the Beeb that Bob Geldof could have been pope 'cos he was a Ratsinger! Ouch! Sorry for inflicting it on you.