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Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:01 am
by Gob
Place your bets here...



Love these;

Richard Dawkins 666/1
Father Dougal Maguire 1000/1
Bono also 1000/1

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:38 am
by Lord Jim
Richard Dawkins 666/1
My, how very appropriate.... 8-)

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:44 am
by Guinevere
Im just curious to see if they will pick a non-European.

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 6:49 am
by MajGenl.Meade
I'm curia to see if they pick someone of whom they are 100% sure there's no cassock-lifting in the background.

IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A CARDINAL

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:11 am
by RayThom
A holy, christ-like, layman could just as easily be elected to this most high calling. Of course, odds are slim to none that this will happen. Once you eliminate homosexuals, and paedophile enabling Cardinals the field is winnowed down considerably.

One thing for sure, and absolute, is that Turkson, or other non-white guys, don't stand a chance. In Turkson's case his odds appear to be great but this is just to tickle minority catholic asses with a feather. It makes the big boys look all inclusive but we all know they are exclusive. I'm pretty sure Karl Rove is doing the number crunching here. He's great at polishing the turds.

And in the end. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. And we will be fooled again. God help us all.

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:15 am
by Sean
MajGenl.Meade wrote:I'm curia to see if they pick someone of whom they are 100% sure there's no cassock-lifting in the background.
I doubt it Meade, I'm sure it's in the rules somewhere that he has to be a Catholic.

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 1:35 pm
by The Hen
I'm backing Bishop Brennan, with Father Dougall McGuire as a sentimental favourite.

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 2:57 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
My hats in the ring. Don't know if I have a chance, but I have a good war chest for the fight.
:ok

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:52 pm
by Guinevere
There is indeed, an app for that -- called "Conclave" its free and available for iPhone and Android phone.

"Conclave" also ranks the potential candidates -- and it agrees with the bookies as to the top candidate, but its a bit of a mix afterwards.

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 6:20 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Guinevere wrote:There is indeed, an app for that -- called "Conclave" its free and available for iPhone and Android phone.
Now if I only had an iPhone, or Android phone (or any cell phone for that matter).

my Oboma phone expired and I am too cheap to get another cell phone. I once designed them, I have no need to buy them.

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 9:27 pm
by Gob
Guinevere wrote:There is indeed, an app for that -- called "Conclave" its free and available for iPhone and Android phone.

Amazing! :D

Tweetie birds

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 1:17 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
I hear the Cardinals sent out their last tweets before being sequestered. They were threatened with dire consequences (even excommunication?) should they tweet or otherwise communicate with the outside world.

Meanwhile in Rome the other cardinals were also doing something or other

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:17 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
White smoke, black smoke. Why can't we get blue or red smoke?

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:55 pm
by Crackpot
too pagan

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 4:53 pm
by Econoline
oldr_n_wsr wrote:White smoke, black smoke. Why can't we get blue or red smoke?
I had to look twice to make sure that post didn't come from rubato. :lol:

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:40 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
oldr_n_wsr wrote:White smoke, black smoke. Why can't we get blue or red smoke yellow or magenta?
There, I fixed it.
:mrgreen:

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:32 pm
by Scooter

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:50 pm
by Crackpot
That's nut what the illuminati, 12 jew bankers and the rest of MOTU want you to think

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:55 pm
by Scooter
Oh Lord, Steve is back.

Re: Odds on the next pope?

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:05 pm
by Scooter
Now we know how the cardinals will be entertaining themselves between votes:
A day ahead of the papal conclave, faces at the scandal-struck Vatican were even redder than usual after it emerged that the Holy See had purchased a €23 million (£21 million) share of a Rome apartment block that houses Europe’s biggest gay sauna.

The senior Vatican figure sweating the most due to the unlikely proximity of the gay Europa Multiclub is probably Cardinal Ivan Dias, the head of the Congregation for Evangelisation of Peoples, who is due to participate in tomorrow’s election at the Sistine Chapel.

This 76-year-old “prince of the church” enjoys a 12-room apartment on the first-floor of the imposing palazzo, at 2 Via Carducci, just yards from the ground floor entrance to the steamy flesh pot. There are 18 other Vatican apartments in the block, many of which house priests.