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Category: Humor • Religion
Posted on: October 13, 2007 3:05 PM, by Orac

I don't do this very often, but this picture of Pope Benedict XVI struck me as amusing:

One suggested caption is here.

Not bad, but surely my readers can do better than that. Add your own caption!

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...but where do the nails go?

Posted by: VRandell | October 13, 2007 3:35 PM

Pope finally endorses condoms.

Posted by: Richard Carter, FCD | October 13, 2007 3:45 PM

The best part of this picture isn't the pope, it's the look on the bodyguards face in the foreground.

Posted by: Matt | October 13, 2007 3:48 PM

This goes with the "Buddy Jesus" in Kevin Smith's movie Dogma

Posted by: Joe | October 13, 2007 4:16 PM

Now watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!

Posted by: Moopheus | October 13, 2007 5:08 PM

It's a giraffe! No, really!

Posted by: THobbes | October 13, 2007 5:53 PM

I don't give a damn how important the College of Cardinals thinks these childrens' crusades are, I'm not putting on the floppy shoes ...

Posted by: John Pieret | October 13, 2007 5:55 PM

"The pope slowly worked his act up to the spoon-bending..."

Posted by: Marcus Ranum | October 13, 2007 6:03 PM

Papal inflatability called into question.

Posted by: MartinC | October 13, 2007 6:23 PM

How Gary Aldridge got started.

Posted by: Cuttlefish | October 13, 2007 6:28 PM

Of course, when Moses did it he turned his staff into a snake, but given the circumstances, the Pope didn't think a snake would impress.

Posted by: Andrew | October 13, 2007 7:04 PM

Only God can arrange these things. It's a sign!

Posted by: Salli | October 13, 2007 7:13 PM

"The Pontiff launched the Church's radical new campaign in support of birth control by demonstrating it's motto 'Just tie a knot in it'".

Posted by: wil | October 13, 2007 7:49 PM

"Clearly, these balloons did not tie themselves like this. They had a designer. Therefore God exists and created the universe."

Posted by: Marcus Ranum | October 13, 2007 8:47 PM

I is in ur drawers, stealing ur condomz!

Posted by: Alan | October 13, 2007 9:17 PM

Jeebus, and I missed Oktoberfest for this?

Posted by: Abel Pharmboy | October 13, 2007 9:19 PM

And I knight thee...Sir Phallus.

Posted by: Jeri | October 13, 2007 9:28 PM

G. Gordon Liddy waits for the Sarin filled balloon to burst.

Posted by: notmercury | October 13, 2007 9:32 PM

"Undeterred by the theft of his scepter, the Pope activated the Emergency Auto-Inflate Cross and finished the blessings."

Posted by: Ahistoricality | October 13, 2007 9:54 PM

Pope finds clever use for unused condoms.

Posted by: Iskra | October 13, 2007 9:56 PM

"We're all out of indulgences, but here's a nice freebie."

Posted by: Dangerous Bacon | October 13, 2007 11:30 PM

1. Having promised the children he would use it...

2. Recipients of blessings via this special crucifix noted a special enlightening effect.

3. The sudden transformation of religious objects to balloon animal equivalents has been tied to the disappearance of Staten Island in a flash of light.

4. The Vatican has denied this incident has anything to do with the beatification of Red Skeleton.

Posted by: Alan Kellogg | October 13, 2007 11:45 PM

"I also do Bar Mitzvahs!"

Posted by: Herb | October 14, 2007 3:37 AM

"Next, I make ein Swastika..."

Posted by: angry doc | October 14, 2007 8:33 AM

"These be thy Gods O Israel"

Posted by: Pithy Comment | October 14, 2007 9:06 AM

This is my god now. Suck it, Jesus!

Posted by: Narc | October 14, 2007 10:00 AM

"In nominae de Patris, et Filis, et Espiritu Latex..."

Posted by: B | October 14, 2007 10:44 AM