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Mark Bluemel wrote:
On Feb 11, 5:25 pm, "Geoff Pearson" wrote:
How can this be of any interest? A bloke who is 86 announces he is too
tired, nae wunder, to carry on work. He was too old when he started the
job. Shock? Very old bloke retires? Not much shock to me.


I'm currently assuming that he knows that a(nother) crisis is about to
break and he wants some other lucky person to have to deal with it.


Oo you cynic you. ;-). You could well be right though.

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Mark Bluemel wrote:

On Feb 11, 5:25 pm, "Geoff Pearson" wrote:


How can this be of any interest? A bloke who is 86 announces he is too


tired, nae wunder, to carry on work. He was too old when he started the


job. Shock? Very old bloke retires? Not much shock to me.




I'm currently assuming that he knows that a(nother) crisis is about to


break and he wants some other lucky person to have to deal with it.




Oo you cynic you. ;-). You could well be right though.


Maybe he wants to move on a do some thing like,
I'm a celibate get me out of here.







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that he wasn't up to the job and would rather just retire.


That's religion for you.


I thought popes were like old hoofers (Brucie, etc) - die in harness.
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On 13/02/13 16:42, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:49:03 -0800 (PST), whisky-dave
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that he wasn't up to the job and would rather just retire.


That's religion for you.


I thought popes were like old hoofers (Brucie, etc) - die in harness.



In the past they died in office; but in the past life expectancy for
everyone was much shorter, so it was unlikely that an ailing pope would
linger for long. Now, senility and general debilitation is likely to be
a problem long before expiry.


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that he wasn't up to the job and would rather just retire.


That's religion for you.


I thought popes were like old hoofers (Brucie, etc) - die in harness.


They mostly are, but like with the royals changing on that, this pope has
too.



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In the past they died in office; but in the past life expectancy for
everyone was much shorter, so it was unlikely that an ailing pope would
linger for long.


Especially if there weren't doctors to stick in pacemakers (etc).

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On 13/02/2013 18:36, Roland Perry wrote:
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2013, djc remarked:

In the past they died in office; but in the past life expectancy for
everyone was much shorter, so it was unlikely that an ailing pope
would linger for long.


Especially if there weren't doctors to stick in pacemakers (etc).

Rubbish! They've had them forever. They had odd ways of referring to
them, though, in those days:

Blessed are the pacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

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Rubbish! They've had them forever. They had odd ways of referring to
them, though, in those days:

Blessed are the pacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.


"Out of the way, Big Nose."
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No I don't think so.
Why are there no female Popes?

There prolly was

but a star in the east came along and ...

you guessed the rest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan


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How can this be of any interest? A bloke who is 86 announces he is too
tired, nae wunder, to carry on work. He was too old when he started the
job. Shock? Very old bloke retires? Not much shock to me.

I'm extremely saddened by this bombshell event. However, I look forward to
the white smoke, signifying that some other stupid ******* is prepared to
"stand-in" for Jesus. What complete and utter ********. I had a bible
puncher hit the front door this week, just a kid. WTF gets into these
people? Anyway, I told him where to get.

No, no, no

you invite them in then lock the front door

this can be real fun if you have a spare half an hour before sunday
lunch


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On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:56:17 PM UTC, Tim+ wrote:
Mark Bluemel wrote:

On Feb 11, 5:25 pm, "Geoff Pearson" wrote:


How can this be of any interest? A bloke who is 86 announces he is too


tired, nae wunder, to carry on work. He was too old when he started the


job. Shock? Very old bloke retires? Not much shock to me.




I'm currently assuming that he knows that a(nother) crisis is about to


break and he wants some other lucky person to have to deal with it.




Oo you cynic you. ;-). You could well be right though.


Maybe he wants to move on a do some thing like,
I'm a celibate get me out of here.

Better offer from the other side ?


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"Geoff Pearson" wrote in message
...
How can this be of any interest? A bloke who is 86 announces he is too
tired, nae wunder, to carry on work. He was too old when he started the
job. Shock? Very old bloke retires? Not much shock to me.

I'm extremely saddened by this bombshell event. However, I look forward to
the white smoke, signifying that some other stupid ******* is prepared to
"stand-in" for Jesus. What complete and utter ********. I had a bible
puncher hit the front door this week, just a kid. WTF gets into these
people? Anyway, I told him where to get.

Me - what are you selling?
Him - nothing, just trying to provide some information regarding our lord
Me - No thanks, pal
Him - You're not interested?
Me - Not in the slightest.

******.


We have a bunch of lunatic Jehovas Witnesses (SP, anyone give a ****?)
living opposite. Our pooch went and piddled on their front garden (good
boy), out she came spouting verbal garbage, I said sorry, what did you say?
I got - YOU HEARD WHAT I SAID. She can now go **** herself, permanently.
Stupid bint.


As a child I lived opposite a couple where she was a JW and he wasn't.
It was slightly odd, as the kids played out with us, but couldn't come
to birthday parties. She used to have a group of JWs round for regular
prayer meetings or whatever. We found it quite good living opposite
them, as we almost never got random JWs knocking at the door.

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"Geoff Pearson" wrote in message
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How can this be of any interest? A bloke who is 86 announces he is too
tired, nae wunder, to carry on work. He was too old when he started the
job. Shock? Very old bloke retires? Not much shock to me.

I'm extremely saddened by this bombshell event. However, I look
forward to
the white smoke, signifying that some other stupid ******* is prepared to
"stand-in" for Jesus. What complete and utter ********. I had a bible
puncher hit the front door this week, just a kid. WTF gets into these
people? Anyway, I told him where to get.

No, no, no

you invite them in then lock the front door

this can be real fun if you have a spare half an hour before sunday lunch


My father-in-law (a staunch Roman Catholic) invited them in (they looked
shocked that anyone would do so) and then spent half an hour or so
asking them pertinent religious questions and leaving them very lost and
confused.

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"Geoff Pearson" wrote in message
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How can this be of any interest? A bloke who is 86 announces he is too
tired, nae wunder, to carry on work. He was too old when he started the
job. Shock? Very old bloke retires? Not much shock to me.
I'm extremely saddened by this bombshell event. However, I look
forward to
the white smoke, signifying that some other stupid ******* is prepared to
"stand-in" for Jesus. What complete and utter ********. I had a bible
puncher hit the front door this week, just a kid. WTF gets into these
people? Anyway, I told him where to get.

No, no, no

you invite them in then lock the front door

this can be real fun if you have a spare half an hour before sunday lunch


My father-in-law (a staunch Roman Catholic) invited them in (they looked
shocked that anyone would do so) and then spent half an hour or so
asking them pertinent religious questions and leaving them very lost and
confused.

SteveW


I did a similar thing, but on the doorstep - not seen any since (in about 8
- 10 years), which is a pity 'cos one of them was a very lovely brown lass
(pity about the 'religion').
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:38:22 +0000, just as I was about to take a
herb, geoff disturbed my reverie and wrote:

you invite them in then lock the front door

this can be real fun if you have a spare half an hour before sunday
lunch


Some of their women folk are quite hot...it's not fair.
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:47:52 +1100, just as I was about to take a
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He had to have his arm twisted to accept the job in the
first place and has recently had a heart pacemaker fitted.


He has had one for years, the recent one was a replacement.
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:57:18 +0000 (GMT), just as I was about to take
a herb, charles disturbed my reverie
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and he's been forbidden to fly by his doctors


Only long flights, like transatlantic ones.
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:05:55 +0000, just as I was about to take a
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Better offer from the other side ?


Oy vey! After all these years he's realised he's been batting for the
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:38:22 +0000, just as I was about to take a
herb, geoff disturbed my reverie and wrote:

you invite them in then lock the front door

this can be real fun if you have a spare half an hour before sunday
lunch


Some of their women folk are quite hot...it's not fair.


Yeah - Soul Survivor have a unit adjacent to mine

They seem to attract them too

.... why ???



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On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:38:22 +0000, just as I was about to take a
herb, geoff disturbed my reverie and wrote:

you invite them in then lock the front door

this can be real fun if you have a spare half an hour before sunday
lunch


Some of their women folk are quite hot...it's not fair.


Yeah - Soul Survivor have a unit adjacent to mine


They seem to attract them too


... why ???


Good-looking women are maybe especially likely to think "surely not in
vain / My substance from the common earth was ta'en", and will be
attracted to someone who tells them how to live forever?

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On 15/02/2013 22:21, DrTeeth wrote:
Some of their women folk are quite hot...it's not fair.


We had a reasonably good looking JW working in our department once.

After a couple of years we'd converted her away from the faith, and she
married a gentile.

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