Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu (Dr Nancy's Sweetie) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Christianity Jokes Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 91 00:01:26 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 55 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , Joe Buehler writes: >Subject: Re: Keith Drake Sez Peter could not be a pop Which I think misstates the question; Mark refers to "Simon's" mother-in-law (Mark 1:30), so it is reasonable to conclude that Peter was married. As such, he may have been a pop (though there is no indication that he was), and I don't think Keith would deny that. In modern times, were he a pop, he probably wouldn't have been a pope, but in the first century they may have had pope pops. Sounds like a breakfast cereal, doesn't it? I can see the commercial now: (actress dressed like a nun looks to camera) Here at Our Lady of Good Hope, Pope Pops is a regular part of our nutritious breakfast. I recommend them for devout Catholics everywhere! (camera zooms in on little bits of sugar-coated cardboard shaped like three-pointed hats) Pope Pops are fortified with a full day's supply of vitamins and iron, and there's an authentic Matchbox (tm) PopeMobile in every box! (camera zooms in on little toy car) And they come in Original and Avignon! (camera shows two boxes, regular and chocolate) Pope Pops -- Infallibly good! (smiling nuns eating breakfast) [ And, of course, Pope Pops for Protestants, shaped like little `6's. ] kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu Darren F. Provine ...njin!gboro!kilroy "I'm irreverent, you're sacrilegious, he's blasphemous." -- Nancy L Tinkham Whatever you call the Magi, you cannot avoid the fact that (according to Matthew) they came to highly accurate conclusions using methods which we generally consider foolish. kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu Darren F. Provine ...njin!gboro!kilroy "On the grand scale, the Observable Region [of space] is very much the same everywhere and in all directions -- in other words, it is homogeneous." -- Edwin Powell Hubble