Catholic Geek Code v0.1 (fwd)

[Fiona Marsden]

Came across this and was amused...Semper Fi $:-]

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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 05:11:54 -0500
From:Bouw...@Interduct.TUDelft.NL
To: reh...@bgu.edu
Subject: Catholic Geek Code v0.1

Hello, REHU-ers,

Following The Hebrew Geek Code - Version 1.0 by Robert Kaiser,
I made the Catholic Geek Code (version 0.1).
(Special thanks to Mike Turniansky)

P: the Pope
P-- I don't believe anything the Pope says.
P- JPII might be right sometimes.
P I decide when I believe the Pope.
P+ The Pope is infallible in matters of dogmas.
P++ The Pope is infallible.
P+++ I *am* the Pope.
P? Who is John Paul II?

M: Meat
M-- I don't eat meat on Fridays, nor on Ash Wednesday.
M- I don't eat meat on Fridays.
M+ I never abstain from meat.
M++ ...with French fries, please.
!M I'm a vegetarian.

R: visits to Rome
Rn/m n: number of visits to Rome
m: number of attended papal audiences

L: use of the Latin Language
L- I prefer Mass in my own language.
L I have no preference.
L+ I prefer Mass in Latin.
L++ Missam Latinam praefero.

E: Ecumenism
E-- Let's burn those heretics.
E- We should try to convert them.
E I never met a protestant.
E+ Let's talk about it.
E++ I sometimes attend a protestant service.
E+++ I'm married to a protestant.
E? What are protestants?
--
Met vriendelijke groeten, * Yours sincerely, * Afablajn salutojn,

Ivo (Bouw...@Interduct.TUDelft.NL)
(P !M R2/2 L- E++)

[David Aldred]

In article: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950428...@access2.digex.net> Pavel
Chichikov <fish...@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET> writes:

> You're certainly wrong:
> Does the Pope shit in the woods?
> Is a bear Catholic?

So how does the Pope
cope
if caught
short
in the forest
where there's no "rest
rooms"?
For if necessity looms
Then there's nothing for it
but a shit.

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