A Colombiano’s encounter with the Pope

elmodefoque says on Apr 19, 2008, 11:04:

thank you!

over 5 million colombianos in USA and only 27 barranquilleros, i'm one.Curramba, el mejor vividero del mundo!

morphus says on Apr 19, 2008, 11:41:

He's starting to look more like a Pope...fatter, older and incoherent.

webmanco says on Apr 19, 2008, 11:43:

A pastuso helps dressing the Pope

But, I'm going to start making some assumptions here.... Which means I might actually end up making an ass out of myself ..........Thu 04 17, 2008 11:34 am

slguy says on Apr 19, 2008, 11:44:

I guess you showed him a thing or two! Block traffic in Manhattan, will he? elmo'll just go home and drink!! ;)

Before you throw me out, make sure I pay my bar tab

britabroad says on Apr 19, 2008, 12:06:

When the last Pope visited the UK back in nineteen hunudred and cold death I was in the army. While in London he stayed in a huge old mansion (obviously owned by the RC Church) next to Wimbledon Common, in a very nice suburb of London.
One Sunday morning he was to go to mass at the local catholic church, so the route, which was about 2 miles long, was lined with policemen from 6am "to control the crowds".
We were used in plain clothes along the route to mingle with the crowd in case some nutter decided to do anything.
Problem was, there were no crowds. At about 9am he came out of the mansion in his "Pope Mobile", surrounded by his own security, police motorcyclists, etc etc. The only "crowd" was a couple walking their dog who said, "Oh, is that the Pope?"
Insult was added to injury when each police officer turned his back on the Pope Mobile as he passed. I thought that they were making some sort of protest. It looked awful. But apparently they were told to "Face the crowd" as he passed, so they did! I wonder if he was aware of that.

Leave the big stick at home...carry a cannon!

Frank Rizzo says on Apr 19, 2008, 12:10:

That "Pope-mobile" is cool......!!

nueva york bombero says on Apr 19, 2008, 15:49:

Kiss the ring bitch!!!!

jaramillo says on Apr 19, 2008, 16:14:

Modefoque, I thought you were moving to Curramba.

webmanco says on Apr 19, 2008, 16:15:

Elmo does not have anyone in Curramba to take him for a walk.

But, I'm going to start making some assumptions here.... Which means I might actually end up making an ass out of myself ..........Thu 04 17, 2008 11:34 am

Simon says on Apr 19, 2008, 16:24:

"He's starting to look more like a Pope...fatter, older and incoherent."

Why is he incoherent? He speaks ten languages. How many do you speak?

HERE'S SIMON!!!!

slguy says on Apr 19, 2008, 17:23:

What, Simon? now you're jumping to defense of old Germans? Colombia/latinos don't keep you busy enough? ;)

Before you throw me out, make sure I pay my bar tab

billyb says on Apr 19, 2008, 18:55:

Simon is an equal opportunity defender :))

Simon says on Apr 19, 2008, 19:04:

You're damn right I'll defend the Holy father!

HERE'S SIMON!!!!

billyb says on Apr 19, 2008, 20:08:

what a slacker this one is then.

billyb says on Apr 19, 2008, 20:43:

Come on Rubi, give yourself some credit, you're not a TOTAL moron ;))

billyb says on Apr 19, 2008, 21:00:

jajaja.

Cerealkiller says on Apr 20, 2008, 04:46:

me zinks ze Pope is a funny old man. I find the guy totally histerical and kind of wish i had a grandpa like that. I recall reading he has been photographed wearing Serengeti sunglasses, wears Prada loafers, loves his ipod (even though he wanted one with more capacity than the one he got), and is a gifted pianist. I am not a Catholic and tend to be anti religion so I'm cool with whatever floats their boat. I just think the old man is an interesting character.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives -John Stuart Mill

morphus says on Apr 20, 2008, 06:35:

Simon, you're right! He's a little too sharp to be the Pope. Maybe when he gets Alzheimer's people will be more interested in him.

Simon says on Apr 20, 2008, 09:36:

I think you're an interesting and funny character too Serialkiller.

HERE'S SIMON!!!!

Simon says on Apr 20, 2008, 09:39:

Morphus,

Seeing the massive throngs of people who follow him everywhere as well as the non-stop coverage on all the major news networks, I'd say a 'few' people are interested. BTW, why is it so "shocking" to me that you're not a Catholic? Lol.

HERE'S SIMON!!!!

slguy says on Apr 20, 2008, 09:43:

"...as the non-stop coverage on all the major news networks"

britney gets the same thing when she forgets her panties. ;)

Before you throw me out, make sure I pay my bar tab

Frank Rizzo says on Apr 20, 2008, 09:49:

britney without panties.......please slguy...it's around lunch time, and that mental pic just put me into a tiny dry heave...mommy needs to keep all that covered up. guacala.

slguy says on Apr 20, 2008, 09:51:

couldn't agree more, FR.

my apologies.

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morphus says on Apr 20, 2008, 09:51:

I used to be Catholic. Now i'm against all religion.

webmanco says on Apr 20, 2008, 09:53:

Frank Rizzo just take it as a holy dessert

But, I'm going to start making some assumptions here.... Which means I might actually end up making an ass out of myself ..........Thu 04 17, 2008 11:34 am

Frank Rizzo says on Apr 20, 2008, 09:57:

LOL web... now i'm skipping lunch completely.

Cerealkiller says on Apr 20, 2008, 10:53:

Why thank you Simon. I am not sure you meant it in the same positive terms I did when referring to the pope. Truth is regardless of the fact of him being the pope, (which is awesome when you're a catholic, but pretty meaningless when you're not) I do believe he is an interesting character. The fact that he is the leader of a cult I do not follow -or agree with- does not mean I cannot appreciate his intellect. I truly believe that Papa Ratzinger is not only a high cultured old man but also an erudite, more so that Papa Wojtyla. I just think his penchant for high end items and good looking secretaries is sort of funny.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives -John Stuart Mill

webmanco says on Apr 20, 2008, 10:55:

CK
his penchant for high end items and good looking secretaries is sort of funny



Sort of pervert, JK, I just need Ratzinger´s Iphone number :-)

But, I'm going to start making some assumptions here.... Which means I might actually end up making an ass out of myself ..........Thu 04 17, 2008 11:34 am

Simon says on Apr 20, 2008, 20:54:

http://www.uspapalvisit.org/

HERE'S SIMON!!!!

goin_south says on Apr 20, 2008, 21:43:

No Wonder the fokn Popes always appear to be brain dead: They're all trying to figure out which fokn language to speak!

and, thank you.

goin_south says on Apr 20, 2008, 21:45:

"There, my encounter with the Pope"
Oh, damn. Let's hear about it, Modefoqa.
Did he forgive you of All Your Sinz??
jaja. THAT'S ALOT OF FORGIVEN... jjaja!

Why don't you just go to a Fokn Yankee game and talk to the guy behind Home Plate... it's all the same... HE IS ... THE POPE.

and, thank you.

MitchAlvarez says on Apr 20, 2008, 22:16:

Durante su estadia en Nueva York un cardenal entro en el despacho del Papa y le dijo:

"Su Eminencia, tengo una noticia buena y otra medio mala!"

el Papa le contesto: "A ver pues mijo digame la buena primero"

- "Pues que, Jesucristo ha vuelto a la Tierra! Y esta llamando por telefono!"

el Papa le responde: "Pero entonces cual es la mala?"

- "Que se quedo sin un peso y esta llamando desde Las Vegas"

Tengale miedo a una huelga de mujeres o a una escasez de aguardiente. :)

goin_south says on Apr 20, 2008, 22:20:

rubito... wtf are you talkn about?

and, thank you.

goin_south says on Apr 20, 2008, 22:39:

Ask el Modefoqa... he seems to care. a lil. very lil.

and, thank you.

Robert Jorge says on Apr 20, 2008, 23:59:

5 languages? 10 languages? If a person is truly fluent in 5 different languages - they are Fing genius - period. 10 languages is beyond my imagination. I am considered by some to be articulate in English - though I don't agree. I struggle in Spanish. I get by. I used to be able to speak and understand German. But my German has been totally replaced by the Spanish that I have learned. A person who is able to speak multiple languages is not normal: He is not typical of what most people can or do achieve, and is exceptional in my opinion. Or maybe I am just so slow and dense, I can't comprehend that others are able to pick it up with ease?

--"I believe in making the world safe for our children. But not for our children's children, because I don't think that children should be having sex." - Jack Handy

slguy says on Apr 21, 2008, 06:16:

"A person who is fluent in 5 or more languages is TYPICAL in many parts of the world"

interesting observation! what parts? i'm fairly well traveled, but exclusive of some academic types whose profession is languages, i've met exactly 0 folks who are fluent in 5 distinct languages.

Before you throw me out, make sure I pay my bar tab

morphus says on Apr 21, 2008, 06:28:

I'm sure they are always learning new words no matter how fluent they are.

sloopskipper says on Apr 21, 2008, 06:33:

My late wife was Dutch. She and her whole family spoke 5; Dutch, French, German, English, and Limburgs (a dialect, more like German).

And me? I speak one and a quarter.

slguy says on Apr 21, 2008, 06:36:

Cool! i stand corrected - and VERY envious!

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sloopskipper says on Apr 21, 2008, 06:39:

I think most (or at least many) western Europeans speak at least two. My wife's home was very close to the German and Belgian borders, so Geman on one side, and French on the other.

In the north of The Netherlands (Provincie Friesland) they speak Dutch and Friesian, which is somewhat related to Old English.

MitchAlvarez says on Apr 21, 2008, 06:49:

My cousin who is still in high school lives in Belgium and speaks French, German, Dutch, English, and Spanish (this one because of his parents). The others as he explains are all taught in school and through mass media.

Tengale miedo a una huelga de mujeres o a una escasez de aguardiente. :)

billyb says on Apr 21, 2008, 07:09:

If you speak english and spanish, what the fok would you need any others for?

sloopskipper says on Apr 21, 2008, 07:12:

There is considerable German, French & English televsion content in NL, and for sure French, in Belgium also.

sloopskipper says on Apr 21, 2008, 07:14:

German might be handy if you live, or visit there.

slguy says on Apr 21, 2008, 07:14:

good point, billyb! jajaja

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sloopskipper says on Apr 21, 2008, 07:16:

But, is much easier to find English speaking people there, than in Latin America.

sloopskipper says on Apr 21, 2008, 07:18:

Panamanian websites brag " . . . and English is widely spoken", or "English is our second language". That is a foken joke, promoted by the real estate parasites!

elmodefoque says on Apr 21, 2008, 09:56:

the lady that takes me for my daily walks in the fokin park, speaks 4 languages.
she'e croatian but also speaks some english, rusian and chekeslovakian.
though we don't talk much, i just follow the rest of the dogs, i have a feeling she thinks we latinos are beneath them.
sometimes i wanna tell her, "listen lady i don't know from which fokin rock your people crawled from under, i'm from fokin barranquila and stop wacking me with the fokin rolled up newspaper, i'm not a dog i'm a human being.
If you continued messing with me, i'm gonna tell count fokin dracula where you live!

over 5 million colombianos in USA and only 27 barranquilleros, i'm one.Curramba, el mejor vividero del mundo!

kat1 (Moderator) says on Apr 21, 2008, 11:22:

My husband speak 3 languages, Spanish, French and English, I think with those 3 you can pretty get by anywhere in Europe

I would love to learn French maybe i will give it a try

engage brain before opening mouth

SiV says on Apr 21, 2008, 11:31:

I like the Pope, the Pope smok. . .wait a minute, actually, I don't. I can't stand the ex-Nazi!

Stultórum númere infinitum est.

Simon says on Apr 21, 2008, 11:49:

Don't worry SiV, the Pope still loves you anyway.

HERE'S SIMON!!!!

goin_south says on Apr 21, 2008, 12:28:

el moda... yer killin me, man.

Now... back to .. about the cinco lenguas...
''fluent in 5 or more languages is TYPICAL in many parts of the world.''

the key words that make that a bunch of bs... "fluent, five, typical, and many"
Thanks for addressin that, slguy.

and, thank you.

Frank Rizzo says on Apr 21, 2008, 12:30:

I agree El Papa still loves you......everybody down on the Pope

kalder says on Apr 21, 2008, 12:41:

The Pope's an ex-Nazi?

Is that what they're teaching you in High School these days?

"kalder- have you ever had a woman?"--Sam Salmon

nueva york bombero says on Apr 21, 2008, 13:00:

I heard the pope passed wind in that synagogue he visited...
I guess he's still trying to Gas the Jews!!!!

Simon says on Apr 21, 2008, 13:22:

Hey Bombero, the Pope also passed by Ground Zero to pray for and meet with relatives of those firemen who lost their lives on 9-11.

HERE'S SIMON!!!!

SiV says on Apr 21, 2008, 17:54:

It's true, Kalder, Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) was a member of the Hitler Youth, the anti-aircraft corps and the infantry. MInd you, they say he had no choice and was very reluctant. I say under those long papal robes he's probably wearing a pair of jackboots.

Stultórum númere infinitum est.

Robert Jorge says on Apr 22, 2008, 00:52:

I met a person who is fluent in 5 languages once. She is from Romania, and besides Romanian, can speak Italian, French, English and Bulgarian. She can understand Spanish - but isn't fluent. She is also literally a genius, and is now a dentist in Colorado, after immigrating to the US in 2001 without being able to speak English.

--"I believe in making the world safe for our children. But not for our children's children, because I don't think that children should be having sex." - Jack Handy

kalder says on Apr 22, 2008, 02:27:

To conflate being drafted into the Hitler Youth with being a convinced Nazi is just silly. It's like saying that every Vietnam draftee was a devoted follower of LBJ or Nixon. Or every peasant boy conscripted into the Red Army was a doctinaire Marxist-Leninist.

It's the reasoning of a teenager who thinks the slamming of rather anodyne establishment figures is an act of heroic rebellion (rather than the pandering to a dreary, ill-informed othodoxy).

"kalder- have you ever had a woman?"--Sam Salmon

kalder says on Apr 22, 2008, 02:30:

Rubito- I'd be curious to know what those FDNY widows have done to warrant having their faces spat at.

"kalder- have you ever had a woman?"--Sam Salmon

kalder says on Apr 22, 2008, 03:04:

I can appreciate that it's irksome if they're being singled out for special treatment and are receiving especially large compensation packages, when others at least as equally deserving (such as the widows of military personnel) aren't. But surely that's the fault of the government, not the recipients?

"kalder- have you ever had a woman?"--Sam Salmon

kalder says on Apr 22, 2008, 07:56:

To be honest Rubito, I know next to nothing about the compensation issue in NY.

I don't see anything wrong with the Pope banning books. He runs a club. If you don't like the rules you can ignore them or leave.

Anyway, censorship has its place: I'm living proof that porn corrupts ;)

"kalder- have you ever had a woman?"--Sam Salmon

slguy says on Apr 22, 2008, 08:02:

kalder, rubito's right about those self-aggrandizing widows. they make me wanna hurl, too. they've made a career of their victimhood - no dignity at all. i can only imagine what their husbands are feeeling as they look down...prolly relief at having escaped these harpies.

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kalder says on Apr 22, 2008, 08:09:

slguy-Is their compensation package especially generous (when compared to other recipients of federal consolation)?

"kalder- have you ever had a woman?"--Sam Salmon

Tinto (Moderator) says on Apr 22, 2008, 08:13:

Yeah, but have all 400 of them gone on TV, tried to be a political force and basically failed to get on with their lives? Or is it just a small subset that taints the rest?

slguy says on Apr 22, 2008, 08:58:

couldn't say, honestly.

i just have problems with their professional victimhood. if a tv camera turns on, anywhere, discussing 9/11, these gals appear, whining about their lot in life. meanwhile, materially they live far better than they would have absent 9/11...

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Robert Jorge says on Apr 23, 2008, 01:24:

My grandfather, opa, whom I never met, was a Lutheran pastor in Germany before and during WWII. He was required to implement the Nazi Youth program in his church in Kirkel. After not cooperating, he was killed somewhere around Stalingrad after being forced to wear a uniform and made a messenger.

If the Pope is 80 years old, he would have been 17 in 1945. He would have been 10 or 11 years old at the start of the war. He would have been 6 or 7 years old when the Hitler Youth garbage was starting. I sure hope I am never held accountable for something I was forced to do when I was a second grader.

--"I believe in making the world safe for our children. But not for our children's children, because I don't think that children should be having sex." - Jack Handy

morphus says on Apr 23, 2008, 04:52:

Whooa....sorry about your grandfather R_J. He was a very brave man.