The Pope died to 21.37 pm

taylor · 02 Apr 2005, 21:10

Dark · 02 Apr 2005, 21:14

Beat me to it. I was the first to post on alt.gothic about it though.

Bit spooky, that post, it's only 21:14 here...

My dad said earlier how macabre it was, the whole world has been waiting all day for him to die.

emilystrange · 02 Apr 2005, 21:21

indeed.

one hopes for progression in the church, but won't hold one's breath.

Erudite · 02 Apr 2005, 21:25

Must be Europen time...

James Blast · 02 Apr 2005, 21:26

another one will pope up

Erudite · 02 Apr 2005, 21:32

James Blast wrote:another one will pope up

Yeah, the cardinals will be circling like crows.

emilystrange · 02 Apr 2005, 22:12

let the circus begin.

Delilah · 02 Apr 2005, 22:15

My mother just told me that in Poland the whole country is grieving, all church bells are ringing, there is a black screen on TV and everybody went out to the town's square to kneel down and pray. I think it is called overreacting...
I understand that one of the greatest people has died but I think he was really ready to go, I'm sure it was very frustrating for him to lose power over his body - he was unable to speak, in constant pain - there was that one of the recent photos when he was crying because he tried to speak to the crowd and was unable to do so... However, I do feel sad...

emilystrange · 02 Apr 2005, 22:17

is it all about to go Diana - ish ?

James Blast · 02 Apr 2005, 22:19

emilystrange wrote:is it all about to go Diana - ish ?

Dear God, I pray not!

aims · 02 Apr 2005, 22:39

emilystrange wrote:is it all about to go Diana - ish ?

Noooo, think of the children

Morning TV was ruined for weeks in 1997. I couldn't find my cartoons anywhere. T'was inhuman torture.

That and the fact that now I'm a few years older and wiser I'm bloody sick of the cult of celebrity, posthumous or otherwise. Oh, apart from one person

pikkrong · 02 Apr 2005, 22:41

sometimes I can't wait for my 21:37.

aims · 02 Apr 2005, 22:43

pikkrong wrote:sometimes I can't wait for my 21:37.

Waiting for another war
And waiting for my 21.37

Doesn't really fit though, does it?

Didn't think so. Though the whole media sensationalisation of his death does kind of fit with the "Cut him down on Television".

*shuffles back forlornly to dominion >_>*

James Blast · 02 Apr 2005, 23:35

Motz wrote:sensationalisation

interesting wordificationarizing there

pikkrong · 02 Apr 2005, 23:52

I didn't mean popularity.

boudicca · 03 Apr 2005, 01:36

PM, Indrek...

In the true tradition of everyone who's brought up Catholic, I couldn't be less of a Catholic, but still, it's funny how my overriding feeling is "Poor old Pope".

I hope it doesn't go all Diana though, I'd go insane!

Andy TG · 03 Apr 2005, 02:29

Erudite wrote:
James Blast wrote:another one will pope up
Yeah, the cardinals will be circling like crows.

I think you will find that is a "Murder Of Crows" - or perhaps you mean "Vultures"

Scardwel · 03 Apr 2005, 02:33

who gives a f**k? not me mate.

Black Biscuit · 03 Apr 2005, 07:29

What was Jesus's surname? Was it 'Christ'?

I thought it was Arimathea (spelling?), or was that the town he was from? Sorry if the question seems naive.

Obviousman · 03 Apr 2005, 10:23

Black Biscuit wrote:What was Jesus's surname? Was it 'Christ'?

I thought it was Arimathea (spelling?), or was that the town he was from? Sorry if the question seems naive.

Nah, Christ is a title like king, whereas arimathea means 'son of god' or somethinglike itn whis was the surname they gave to his brother in the bible or something. Also he was called Jesus the Nazarenean (or something like it, don't know how it is in English) which doesn't mean 'Jesus of Nazareth' but had to do with some kind of religious group.
Anyway, liked the news of the pope dying, it stopped my cnn-headache

(after three days non stop cnn you get sick whenever you hear 'thisss is cnn!'), though he meant quite a bit to the world. Curious what the next one'll be like...

Obviousman · 03 Apr 2005, 10:25

Obviousman wrote:his brother

Which was Joseph and the gardener-guy at his grave

Brideoffrankenstein · 03 Apr 2005, 10:51

I'm sad he died it's sad when anyone dies but I'm not really that bothered about it really

Erudite · 03 Apr 2005, 11:42

Andy TG wrote:
Erudite wrote:
James Blast wrote:another one will pope up
Yeah, the cardinals will be circling like crows.
I think you will find that is a "Murder Of Crows" - or perhaps you mean "Vultures"

True... If I had intended to use the collective noun for crows.
I will concede that vultures are more renowned for circling than crows.
I suppose "gathering" would have been a better choice of word.
I also have to confess that I have no idea as to the collective noun for vultures. I suppose flock would suffice in a pinch.
But sticking with the Corvus family, you do get an unkindness of ravens, which would seem appropriate in this situation.

Besides which, that was a first draft. I would have picked it up on the rewrites.

Erudite by name, pedantic and anally retentive by nature!

emilystrange · 03 Apr 2005, 11:50

bet you didn't have that written on your school report at age 8, though...

boudicca · 03 Apr 2005, 11:55

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:I'm sad he died it's sad when anyone dies but I'm not really that bothered about it really

Some Black Metal fan you are!

Well, just as we expected, it's Maximum Pope on every bloody channel...
I wonder what the folks at Buckingham Palace are thinking (as regards Charles and Camilla's imminent wedding) when they check the mood-of-the-nation-ometer...

Who gives? Not me.