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April 18, 2005 9:47 PM

This is news? More like exposition for Act 11 of The Spectacle.
posted by Neiltupper (16 comments total)

this is a post?
posted by jimmy at 9:50 PM on April 18, 2005

This is news

No, but this is.
posted by pieisexactlythree at 9:51 PM on April 18, 2005

all i know is, those damn cardinals are polluting the air with their chemically doped black smoke. thats the REAL story. or something.
posted by Mach5 at 10:03 PM on April 18, 2005

"This is news? More like exposition for Act 11 of The Spectacle."

Neiltupper, your post is it's own arguably fatuous thread comment. Congrats on the multiskilling.
posted by peacay at 10:07 PM on April 18, 2005

Interesting critique of media coverage of the Pope's death here...
posted by nyterrant at 10:19 PM on April 18, 2005

Hard to decide whether the media's ongoing fascination with the papal funeral and subsequent election is more amusing or bemusing. Especially for the BBC in a country that officially discriminates against Roman Catholics
posted by Cranberry at 10:21 PM on April 18, 2005

Day Two: Still not Pope.
posted by bibliowench at 10:39 PM on April 18, 2005

Whew! It's a good thing that I'm being kept up to date on the running tally of worthless pope news articles. All day I kept biting my nails and wondering: "What if I'm missing a worthless article about the future Pope?" Whew!
posted by shmegegge at 11:13 PM on April 18, 2005

noise, noise, noise! What kind of mindless idiot would care who takes over positions of power and leadership? Jesus, how many divisions does the Pope have anyway? None!

just some fancy dressed guards... and they're European, which means they surrender, so mehh...!...
posted by trinarian at 11:16 PM on April 18, 2005

Haha, religion. Haha, religious skeptics.
posted by eatitlive at 11:26 PM on April 18, 2005

Is it wrong of me to hope for a black pope, if only for the sole reason of pissing off a lot of racists?
posted by Saydur at 11:46 PM on April 18, 2005

I loves answering me some rhetorical questions. Yeah, when the largest denomination of the largest religion in the world, representing in the vicinity of a BILLION adherents, appoints its supreme leader, yeah, it is news. No, I don't particularly care either, but it is news.
posted by nanojath at 12:06 AM on April 19, 2005

Saydur: not at all :-)
posted by trinarian at 1:01 AM on April 19, 2005

nanojath, but "no pope yet" isn't news. See, that's the point. If the article had said "There's a new pope!" people would be clamboring over one another to comment on it.
posted by shmegegge at 1:05 AM on April 19, 2005

I loves answering me some rhetorical questions. Yeah, when the largest denomination of the largest religion in the world, representing in the vicinity of a BILLION adherents, appoints its supreme leader, yeah, it is news. No, I don't particularly care either, but it is news.

I agree completely. When the cardinals elect a new pope it will be news. Meanwhile . . .
posted by Neiltupper at 1:12 AM on April 19, 2005

Neiltupper, your post is it's own arguably fatuous thread comment. Congrats on the multiskilling.

Well I'm pleased that you've conceded the qualifier arguably. The post was a metacomment on the BBC article, surely appropriate for MetaFilter.

multiskilling? Er . . .
posted by Neiltupper at 1:21 AM on April 19, 2005