Shoulda held it in Florida.

wow the Catholic church likes to keep it old school and use smoke signals. Why not just come out and announce it?

Live video:

Click on
Webcam: Vatican Chimney link at bottom of screen

OMG OMG OMG OMG

Tired of this crap already - they're going to be doing this twice a day. From what I heard earlier 7am and 2pm Eastern...

/could be wrong on the times

Well, I for one am completely shocked. They didn't choose a new pope yet? Wow. My mind is blown.

I'm not Catholic, why should I care?

suebhoney
I'm not Catholic, why should I care?

Because the Pope of the Catholic Church is arguably one of the most powerful men in the entire world.

Well, for starters anyway...

If you dont believe, you think this is like politics. But if you believe, as I do, in the power of prayer, you know they will be illuminated to make the right choice, said Annick Vandamme, who travelled from Paris to witness the occasion.


Maybe that's why they wind up choosing unknowns -- just to spite those who think of it as a political matter.

Someone forgot to tell Cardinal Law he can't vote for himself.

2005-04-18 02:15:59 PM lunchinlewis [TotalFark]

Wait, is black bad or good? Damn racists.

Black cat is bad luck, bad guys wear black
Musta been a white guy who started all that
For those little white lies
My expression to the mountainous blue eyes

"Gas Face" -3rd Bass

Why should you care, suebhoney?

Well, it's a little known fact that the entire world is run by a secret group known as The Pentaverate. They meet once a year in a secret location in Colorado known as "The Meadows".

The Pentaverate consists of the Pope, the Rothschilds, the Gettys, the Queen, and Colonel Sanders.

(Why is the Colonel a part of this evildoing? Because he puts a secret addictive ingredient in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly. I never trusted the Colonel with his wee beady eyes.)

2005-04-18 02:18:26 PM suebhoney [TotalFark]

I'm not Catholic, why should I care?

I dunno. Why are you posting in this thread? Why should I care that you don't?

FUBuddy:

wow the Catholic church likes to keep it old school and use smoke signals. Why not just come out and announce it?

The deliberations of the Cardinals are kept secret, and they have no contact with the outside world until a pope is elected. The only communication allowed is to add a little wet straw to the ballots when they are burned after each vote, to make the smoke black. If a pope is elected, no straw is added and the smoke stays white. Once that happens, then the Dean of the Cardinals (in this case Ratzinger, if he is not elected) does announce it, beginning with the Latin words "Habemus Papam" - "We have a pope." The Pope is then presented to the public in St. Peter's Square, and he makes his first blessing and speech to the crowd.

/You asked...

That was awesome, LarsThorwald.

Ummm, they do this multiple times a day, and last time it took something like a month of balloting?

Are they all going to be newsflashes??

//my answer :no

KyngNothing:

Ummm, they do this multiple times a day, and last time it took something like a month of balloting?

Uhmmmmmm... no. "Of the eight 20th century conclaves, none took longer than five days, and two were completed on the second day."

RTFA, sweetie.

Oh - and they ballot twice a day. In this case, as far as I know, it's scheduled for 7:00 AM and 2:00 PM EDT - but that time conversion may be bogus.

Did they count the hanging chads?

Carolyn I know I was being sarcastic and making fun of the Catholic church for their insane amount of rituals at every turn in religion.

/hates Catholicism and the bling bling

I thought they were voting for a new Einstein, or am I getting my threads crossed again?

Let tehm get on with it already. So many questions, sheesh, I don't think the Catholic Church was expecting some kind of Spanish Inquisition...

We need a Firefox extension.

i want a chinese pope so we can make fun of him.

hey REEEEEEEEL CHEEEEP!

Elect SUM WONG GAI for POPE~~~!

Wytchocolate wins the thread by referencing MC Serch in a Pope thread.

Little known fact: if the conclave is deadlocked, the new pope will be elected via drag racing.

apeman- first lol of my day, thanks

Shouldn't they let everyday Catholics vote on this? This is kind of like if we allowed the Supreme Court to select the president. Thank goodness that would never happen.

HomerSamson113

Because the Pope of the Catholic Church is arguably one of the most powerful men in the entire world.

Well, for starters anyway...

You forgot the Gettys, the Rothschilds and Colonel Sanders before he went tits up.

Wait...

The Pope died?

I thought they drew out of a jar of pickled eggs, and whoever got the black one gets to be Pope.

So if the pope is supposed to be the only infallible person on Earth, then why didn't he pick the next pope? Why let some fallible cardinals pick one of their own and elevate him to the status of infallible?

so the game of rock,paper,scissors went into overtime then?

suebhoney for the same reason the religious types keep invading the science threads, to be an annoying jerk

I have a few friends who will be voting on a new pope of their own at 4:20

I thought they used the ancient roh-sham-bo election technique

Awesome headline submitter. lollol teh funny!!!111!!

Sorry all on the Axe Murder reference. I didn't read all the way though to see it was done. Sorry.

Nabb1:

Fark was a hoot back in 1978, let me tell you. Though, it was mainly Drew bringing comics he cut out of the newspaper with safety scissors to class with him.

These n00bs don't know what they missed. Fark sold out as soon as it became photocopied handouts.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

duck, duck, duck...

"So, er-um, Normy, my pal. My Ma says it's about time for me to be elected pope. Whaddaya think of that, theah?"

I love the fact that in the days of satellite phones and mobile fax machines, some people still send info via smoke