Comments on: Hitler’s Pope Moves Against Israel

By: dairy

dairy — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:42:53 +0000

if it was only 40mm, it wouldn’t be worth putting batteries in, Yampster….
40CM, though - now you’re talking….

By: golan

golan — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:55:43 +0000

How sad is that. The Pope has tried to speak on behalf of Palestinian people who have been oppressed, made homeless and put in a huge concentration camp by the modern day nazi-zionists who often kill them under various excuses.
There are many Christians who have been killed by the Jews there.
Those who reject Christ (Jews) have behaved the way they were predicted to have behaved. The Christ followers (Christians) and Jesus lovers (Muslims) are being made to look guilty and pay the price.
The Pope is correct as a Christian to challenge the Christ killers.

By: yampster

yampster — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:15:30 +0000

I think my sister had one of those but it was about 40mm and had batteries

By: The Real Stig

The Real Stig — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:40:37 +0000

My mother used to have a biretta. She kept it hidden in her lingerie draw. Truly lovely little thing. I think it must have been a .22 calibre.

By: chenier

chenier — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:24:34 +0000

My ruminations on pom-poms, ack-ack guns and toastmaking as an extreme sport seems to have departed into the cybervoid, I fear the smam machine is back to its old habbits…

By: chenier

chenier — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:18:47 +0000

Though, on reflection, I take Yampster’s dad’s point; it’s not easy to make decent toast when some bloke wearing pom-poms is ack-acking at you, so we’re definitely in fog of war territory.

I think we can turn a blind eye to the fact that burning toast produces smoke, not fog, just this once…

By: chenier

chenier — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:44:46 +0000

I’m fairly sure mitres don’t have pom-poms on them, which may explain why Benedict has apparently traded in his biretta for a camauro. It’s difficult to take a pom-pom wearing pontiff very seriously…

By: yampster

yampster — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:21:53 +0000

They didn’t care in the HJ whether it was allowed or not and this was WWII, they were fighting for their lives. There was no time to examine your toast.

My dad said he’s sure he could see a crozier sticking out of his knapsack as well

By: Anorak

Anorak — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:37:29 +0000

Is a biretta like a mitre?

By: chenier

chenier — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:32:18 +0000

I doubt it; I think you have to be promoted quite a long way up the ecclesiastical ladder before they let you wear one of them.

On the other hand, should you happen to possess a piece of toast with a haunting image of your father and the biretta’d bloke in question you might be able to flog it on ebay…

By: yampster

yampster — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:51:08 +0000

My dad remembers being shot at over Essen in ‘44 by a bloke wearing a biretta. I wonder now if it was him.