the next pope will pardon you snny, no worries. in the meantime we remain "popeless'". something you can tell your kids about like when jfk was shot.
slowly going deaf
the next pope will pardon you snny, no worries. in the meantime we remain "popeless'". something you can tell your kids about like when jfk was shot.
sending fiery missiles inmanker'sjapan's general direction.
n00b
i wonder if i'll remember this
Poster
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What is with the we?Originally Posted by MediaSlayer
The best way to keep a secret:- Tell everyone not to tell anyone.
cawk
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i heard this year they will email their votes in, so no smoke will be usedThere wont be a new pope then, because they would have a long wait.
What really happens is that the cardinals vote for a new pope. When they have reached a final decision the ballot papers are burned. The smoke coming out of the chimney is the first indication that the new pope has been elected. Well that is the way it used to happen.
Error xɐʇuʎs
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Unless they burn the computer.
cawk
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actually the funeral will be within 4 days, after that all the cardinals have to travel to rome and enter what is called the conclave, there all cardinals under 80 write on a bit of paper who they want to be the next pope, you are not allowed to vote for yourself. cardinals over 80 aren't allowed to vote. then as boab rightly said they burn the ballot slips when the new pope has a certain percent of the vote and the smoke you see is from that.
cawk
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meant to say there are about 130 cardinals.
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If you'd left that bit out, would it have been a cardinal sin?
Or is it a cardinal number?
Anyone seen me coat?
.Political correctness is based on the principle that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
cawk
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you go to hell for cardinal sins
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A bit like getting a red cardinal then?
.Political correctness is based on the principle that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
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