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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Category: Humor • Religion
Posted on: October 13, 2007 3:05 PM, by Orac
Comments
...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
Is this what they mean by a "thought ballon?"
Posted by: Sid Schwab | October 14, 2007 12:48 PM
"Gosh darn it --- why do all my ballon creations look like crosses?!!?!!?"
Posted by: Pharma Market Researcher | October 14, 2007 1:47 PM
Pope entombes relics of latest Saint: St Krusty joins catholic pantheon despite being imaginary and jewish.
Actually that's been done before. So not really news.
Posted by: Godless Heathen | October 14, 2007 7:27 PM
"Hello, children. I have candy in the PopeMobile. Would you like some?"
Posted by: Jon H | October 14, 2007 8:13 PM
"And here is the dildo used by Mother Theresa, hence forth to be placed in the Vatican's holy relic vault!"
Posted by: sil-chan | October 15, 2007 1:26 AM
1. Yet more evidence that the Catholic church is little more than a bunch of clowns.
2. "Might, majesty and even mystery of Rome..."
Posted by: Warren | October 15, 2007 11:30 AM
It doesn't keep the rain off, but this is only a prototype.
Posted by: Chuck McKay | October 16, 2007 8:32 AM
Number 45 in the official Roman Catholic "101 Things To Do With A Condom".
Posted by: pv | October 16, 2007 7:33 PM