Wikipedia's language being unintentionally funny

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The best part is that even the companies call it like that now.

For example :

https://group.mercedes-benz.com/company/news/electric-popemobile.html

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Pope Francis had a lot more sense of humour than John Paul II. Francis would do pope jokes. I'd be highly surprised he objected to "popemobile".

[u/whiskeytown79 → u/YikesTheCat]

Man, I was thrown off by the past tense here. I totally forgot that Pope Francis passed away and we have Pope Leo XIV now.

[u/Glitter_puke → u/whiskeytown79]

Pope Leo, who has signed at least one Popplio pokemon trading card. I do hope we continue this trend of popes being human.

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If the White Sox win the World Series under his tenure, there will be an astronomical amount of interesting pope-related things since he's a huge White Sox fan.

particularly because they were complete ass before he came around, so there's a bit of divine intervention happening here now that they're actually decent.

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Is it ethical for the pope to call in divine favors for his favorite baseball team?

[u/AvenRaven → u/EffectiveAmphibian95]

The Voice of God just has better cell reception with his prayers is all.

[u/Sirius1701 → u/EffectiveAmphibian95]

I mean, granting them is still in Gods hand. But if his Speaker on earth is doing a good job I assume he can get a little bonus every now and then.

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… let ye without sin…

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That would be funny since the last Pope's team, San Lorenzo, finally won the big title(Copa Libertadores) they were missing while Francis was the Pope.

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| I do hope we continue this trend of popes being human

As opposed to when they were bunnies

[u/Opening_Agent_5279 → u/Euphoric-Skirt7649]

Wait let's continue this trend instead

[u/pernicious_penguin → u/Opening_Agent_5279]

Yup, I'm all for bunny popes. I mean they already rule easter... so...

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I agree, pernicious_penguin

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"He's not saying anything..."

"Exactly"

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It's the combination of supposedly being completely and utterly infallible when speaking ex cathedra while also needing to be approachable. It's a weird combination of things.

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I got to meet him and yeah, he's a pretty great dude. Very 'normal'

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Idk if the head of the Catholic children killing religion can ever be human

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John Paul II was pope for my entire childhood, I completely forgot about Benedict XVI, and Leo has already been pope for almost a year and a half. Sometimes it's hard to keep track of papal turnover.

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i mean it's not that hard, it only happens once every pope's death

(this joke makes no sense in english lmfao)

[u/christoskal → u/a_literal_idiot_616]

Did the joke change at all during the extremely rare resignation of Benedict xvi ?

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put it in the original then. probably more than a few people here who'd get it

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well italians would probably get it anyways even in this version ("una volta ogni morte di papa" is a saying for "once every A LOT OF TIME") (you can imagine all the super original memes in italy after the pope died)