Oh, Mein Papa
Thursday, March 14th, 2013 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanA new Pope, eh? Francis I – the first pontiff from Latin America, and one that looks like the lovechild of Jim Bowen and Heinrich Himmler.
I for one am glad they’ve found someone quickly. Considering he is just another foreign head of state, the media had gone heavily into Pope Idol mode and it was getting tedious. China has a new head of state, too. Barely a mention, and they are, if not yet a superpower, certainly not far off being one.
Of course, my main interest is entirely down to the humour that can be squeezed from the situation and it occurs to me that with a new Pope Francis and a retired Pope Benedict (The Pope Mother?), we have a new Frankie and Benny’s franchise in the Vatican City…
Of course, the running of Italian American pizza parlours is not the usual connection between elderly Germans and almost as elderly Argentinians.
I for one am glad they’ve found someone quickly. Considering he is just another foreign head of state, the media had gone heavily into Pope Idol mode and it was getting tedious. China has a new head of state, too. Barely a mention, and they are, if not yet a superpower, certainly not far off being one.
Of course, my main interest is entirely down to the humour that can be squeezed from the situation and it occurs to me that with a new Pope Francis and a retired Pope Benedict (The Pope Mother?), we have a new Frankie and Benny’s franchise in the Vatican City…
Of course, the running of Italian American pizza parlours is not the usual connection between elderly Germans and almost as elderly Argentinians.