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I belated M Nicholas Breakspear, Pope Adrian IV, Sept. , 1159

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The Sanity Inspector

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Sep 2, 2003, 7:23:03 PM9/2/03
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...the only English Pope...

He held his place four years, eight months, and eight and twenty
dayes: and Anno 1158 [sic], as he was drinking, was choakt with a Fly:
which in the large Territory of St. Peters patrimony had no place but
his throat to get into...
-- Thomas Fuller, _The History of the Worthies of England_, 1662

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bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
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The Sanity Inspector

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Sep 2, 2003, 9:27:27 PM9/2/03
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September 1, the header should read, sorry.


Like wow, Scooby, look what syna...@hotmail.com (The Sanity
Inspector) just wrote!

Gareth Owen

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Sep 3, 2003, 7:54:17 AM9/3/03
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syna...@hotmail.com (The Sanity Inspector) writes:

> ...the only English Pope...

But far more importantly, probably from the family that would found
Brakespear's Brewery in Henley-on-Thames in the 18th century, makers of the
finest Pale Ale in the world.

"If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner,
And take to light claret instead of pale ale;"
-- H. S. Leigh
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Gareth Owen
Nerd Test: How many syllables do you think there are in the word "coax"?

Graham Weeks

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Sep 4, 2003, 3:36:19 PM9/4/03
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The Sanity Inspector wrote:

> ...the only English Pope...
>
> He held his place four years, eight months, and eight and twenty
> dayes: and Anno 1158 [sic], as he was drinking, was choakt with a Fly:
> which in the large Territory of St. Peters patrimony had no place but
> his throat to get into...
> -- Thomas Fuller, _The History of the Worthies of England_, 1662

He gave Henry II of England his blessing for the invasion of Ireland so
that the Celtic church there should be made to accept the authority of
the Bishop of Rome.
Henry got Ireland and the pope, their church.

ObQ
The bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this realm of England - Book
of Common Prayer.

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