[Fictionary] Pope - oh no!

[J-J Cote]

Ummm... have you not caught the news about the Pope?

On 2/14/2013 3:23 AM, Hutch wrote:
> OMG!!! That was me asking that! I can't believe I forgot such a
> transcendantly horrible joke *LOL*
>
> However, what I meant was, what brought the comment up just now? I
> hadn't seen anything recently that he might have been referring to.
>
>                           "Hangman in reverse" *giggle*
>
> BB,
> Hutch
>
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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Jim Moskowitz <jim at jimmosk.com> wrote:
>> He was making a very old reference, as ancient as the very yurt itself.
>> Which was in turn a reference to an earlier joke between Elliott and me from
>> circa 1986.
>>
>> To: fictionary at plover.com
>> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 01:50:47 -0600
>> Subject: "paphian" - The Finale
>> From: Jeff Hutchinson <jeffhutch at juno.com>
>> [...]
>> Elliot mentions some kind of odd story about "pope smoke." Did I miss
>> something? Or should Elliot be forced to tell "Jim Moskowitz's Pope Smoke
>> Canard" to us all?
>> [...]
>> paphian - n - the white smoke which heralds the election of a new pope
>> Nova Myhill & James Kushner - 1
>> Aussie Meyer - Nah, papal defs are too easy.
>> Elliot Moreton - Also, next time I tell people about Jim Moskowitz's Pope
>> Smoke Canard, the one about the pope smoke will come in very handy. One
>> point.
>>
>> From: Jim Moskowitz <jimmosk at netaxs.com>
>> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:49:02 -0400 (EDT)
>> To: fictionary at plover.com
>> Subject: Jim weighs in on the Pope
>>
>> As I tell the canard now (I'm not going to guess whether Elliott is
>> misremembering or I've altered the setup in the intervening years), the
>> white smoke that goes up when a decision has been reached come from the
>> cardinals burning their ballots, and the black smoke that signifies an
>> inconclusive vote is their ballots along with a piece of the old pope. This
>> adds an urgency to the election, especially when they start running low on
>> parts.  Encourages consensus to a wonderful degree.
>>
>> [maybe I just like the idea of 'playing hangman in reverse']
>>
>> -Jim
>>
>> At 1:17 AM -0500 2/14/13, Hutch wrote:
>>> Did I miss something? J-J, were you responding to something I don't see?
>>>
>>> BB,
>>> Hutch
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Jim Moskowitz <jim at jimmosk.com> wrote:
>>>>   At 11:49 PM -0500 2/11/13, J-J Cote wrote:
>>>>>   How will they make the white smoke this time?!
>>>>   Remember, it's the *black* smoke that's canardially made by burning a
>>>> piece of the previous pope.
>>>>
>>>>   I suppose this time they'll have to get it on the first try?