This is the first thing that popped into my head when I heard the new Pope’s name. Am I the only one?
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John here adding to Mistermix’s post. The first thing I ALWAYS think of whenever the Pope is mentioned is Jennifer Paterson from the old BBC cooking show Two Fat Ladies because she always refers to her slippers as the “Papals.”
The Other Chuck
Is it “pop culture” if it’s older than my parents?
jayboat
Lighten up.
It had to be said.
JoyfulA
No, that’s what popped into my mind, too. Wasn’t Donald O’Connor in some of those movies?
It’s probably Francis Xavier rather than Francis + animals, anyway.
? Martin
@The Other Chuck: Yeah, I don’t think anything older than Bieber can be called pop culture, and even he’s getting long in the tooth on that front.
JPL
Since this is an open thread wtf was New England thinking by letting Wes Welker sign with the Broncos. Peyton Manning must be pretty happy. First they reject the Cardinal from Boston and not they rid the city of Welker.
Xecky Gilchrist
@? Martin: Except Boomer pop culture from the 60s, which is eternally better than everything else.
Baud
I was thinking of Francis Bacon, mostly because I want to call the pope the Baconator.
Trollhattan
Welker’s gone? Holy shit, that’s nuts. He was the rare Patsy who looked good in the AFC championships.
NFC West looks like they’re in the middle of an arms race, with the additions of Boldon and Harvin. Gonna be a brutal season out here, this year.
The Pale Scot
Jeesh, Lighten Up Francis.
Omnes Omnibus
@JoyfulA: It has to be Xavier. Why would a Jesuit choose the founder of the Franciscans as a namesake?
Forsetti
The New Pope addressing the Cardinals for the first time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMtvnAmfuf8
Fred Wertam, Jr.
Old folks (like me) will think of the mule. Useless snot-nosed punks will think of Pee-wee’s enemy in “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.”
Trollhattan
Also, too, just got a new phone, which is to say Verizon pushed out an Android upgrade (went from “ice cream sandwich” to “jelly bean”, which I can’t believe I just had to type).
Quite an improvement. UI is cleaner, system typeface is far more readable and a shit-ton of bloatware–both Motorola and Verizon–has been cleared off, replaced with faster Google versions. Many functions seem faster, also, too.
Me happy.
Villago Delenda Est
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well, he can’t very well call himself Pope Jesus I, can he?
MikeJ
Anybody watching Arsenal make it interesting?
scav
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m there too, only enjoying looking at the wealth of alternative St Francis that exist. There’s one who got a miraculous disappearing wall so that he could see some sort of raising sacrament thing from the kitchen.
ETA aaaaah! One for Betty that resurrected a rooster!
quannlace
Oh, honestly, mr.mix. It has to be Xavier, but no, I first thought of ‘Brother Sun, Sister Moon.’
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‘The Little Flowers of St. Francis.’ ? Doesn’t that sound kinda gay?
smintheus
First thing to pop into my head too. But then I thought, if Bergoglio was head of the Jesuits in Argentina in the 1970s, then it’s a good bet he went along with the dictators. A few seconds of googling and…sure enough. He’s been accused of looking the other way when relatives of the kidnapped/killed/tortured brought their stories to him.
Even more astoundingly, he was accused of giving the dictators the green light to kidnap and torture two Jesuit priests under him!
So, the Catholic Church these days can’t find a Pope who wasn’t a Nazi or didn’t collaborate with brutal dictators?
The prophet Nostradumbass
Check out the photo accompanying TBogg’s latest.
srv
@Fred Wertam, Jr.: Wasn’t that kid star on that show with Bryan Cranston called Francis?
And what about William Francis Buckley?
Oh well, I’m too young or too old to get any of these. I thought of Francis Bacon.
Arm The Homeless
@JPL: Dolphins sign Wallace, Ellerbe, and Wheeler. I might actually get to take off the damn paper bag off my head this season.
Also, too, suck it John. Dolphins are in your base, stealin’ yer free agents!
gbear
I first thought of Connie ‘Where The Boys Are’ Francis.
Trollhattan
@scav:
St. Francis makes one of the rare merlots I’ll willingly drink. It’s almost a miracle.
http://www.stfranciswine.com/winery/history.asp
JWL
@JPL: The Pats mistake the fact that the great Tom Brady has been their QB for the past 12 years with front office acumen, i.e., they are super geniuses that can casually drop another receiver into Belichik’s system and the team will succeed. They’re headed for the same fall that the Niners suffered after the Montana-Young era ended.
My first thought about Pope Francis was about my hometown, “the city of Saint Francis”, San Francisco.
nancydarling
@The Other Chuck: Whoa there, son. I loved those movies when I was a kid. There was one called “Francis Joins the Army”. He got shot in the rump and when the vet was removing the bullet, Francis said, “What are you digging back there, a sewer?” I remember thinking that was a really naughty joke. Ah, lost innocence.
Comrade Carter
I still need to know if they’re sure all the ballots submitted by Waukesha County were tabulated before this new guy got the gig!
Tone in DC
@Trollhattan:
Still got plenty of bloatware on my ‘droid phone. Gonna have to empty the cache or something.
max
@Omnes Omnibus: @JoyfulA: It has to be Xavier. Why would a Jesuit choose the founder of the Franciscans as a namesake?
You might be right; but then, who was Xavier’s namesake? (I checked. I haven’t found any reference for that.)
max
[‘The older Francis was pretty famous at that point.’]
Omnes Omnibus
@max: If someone in Wisconsin names his kid Vincent, it’s Lombardi not de Paul that he means to honor.
scav
@max: There is that subtle little distinction of naming your child after George Bush or George Washington to be considered though.
Villago Delenda Est
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
Oh, that’s one helluva photo!
Captures the utter evil of the entire vile clan perfectly.
Richard
The first thing that entered my head when I heard the new Pope’s name…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OnpkDWbeJs
Anne Laurie
Working from a forty-year-old parochial-school memory about prayers to “the conversion of the East”, I checked Wikipedia — yeah, this guy is not gonna please the radical liberationist wing of the Jesuits. The original FX was the missionary Jesuit dedicated to converting Asia, in his own sumptuary fashion:
FXavier’s personal proselytizing was successful only on the fringes of the Indian Ocean (Bobby Jindal & Dinesh D’Souza are going to be estatic) but the old-school Catholic traditionalists used him as a figurehead for their “war” against Chinese Communist anti-Catholicism. I was told that the popularity of the name Francis X among boomer Irish-Americans was directly related to the Korean War, to give you an idea of how this is liable be interpreted by our native brand of revanchists.
Trollhattan
@Tone in DC:
There’s still a lot of stuff I’ll never use, but a number of needless media players, file managers, the lousy browser, etc. are gone. It’s a little like getting a major firmware upgrade on a camera–lots of patches, tweaks and added features to find. There’s a pope hidden in there somewhere–I just have to find him.
mouse tolliver
The name Francis makes me think of Jessica Lange on an operating table getting an ice pick lobotomy.
handsmile
@MikeJ:
Well, I was watching Bayern make it complacent. Flat, uncreative, and disjointed.
Another “glorious failure” from Arsenal? Bollocks! I’ve given up trying to understand why they are so maddeningly inconsistent. Perhaps a year or two in Europa Cup competition will help to focus minds at the Emirates.
Heliopause
The first thing I think of when the Pope is mentioned is Matthew 23: 1-12.
AHH onna Droid
@Omnes Omnibus: Ahahaha, good point. One Franvis gave up the party boy life after surviving an ugly illness and dedicated the rest of his life to serving the poor (and I dont mean Republican Jesus style). The other one was a western missionary who was executed after running afoul of the Shogunate.
Tone in DC
@Trollhattan:
I’ll be happy when the phone stops asking me to update the damn apps every other day.
jamick6000
Jesus H. Christ, I hope Pope Francis lives a very long life so that it will be many years before the liberal blogosphere once again carpet bombs the internet with its glib, smug, half-informed sentiments on Catholicism.
handsmile
@Baud:
Re Francis Bacon
Don’t know if you were thinking of the philosopher or the painter, but the latter executed a series of paintings in the 1950s, now referred to as “The Screaming Popes, derived from Velazquez’s 1650 portrait of Pope Innocent X. Some examples of these at the link:
http://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2013/february/08/the-truth-behind-francis-bacons-screaming-popes/
(I suspect Tom Levenson may soon be using one of the paintings to illustrate a front-page post.)
eclecticbrotha
@The Pale Scot: First thing I’ll always think about when I hear of a guy named “Francis.”
demz taters
My former in-laws are Francis and Frances. Needless to say, when anyone calls the house, hilarity ensues.
fuckwit
@jayboat: Thank you for this. Glad to see so many of us here are children of the 80s.
One of these men may save your life someday.
Then again, maybe one of us wouldn’t.
J.
That’s what immediately popped into my head too — that and the line “So the new pope is an ass?”
FlyingToaster
@jamick6000: Troll, much?
Dude, I’m the end product of La Reconquista, so you can keep your outrage to yourself. Twit.
Geeno
I couldn’t help but get weirded out when someone was saying that the election of a pope was a once in a lifetime thing, and you don’t usually see two elected this quickly.
Um… I’ve been alive for the elections of Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and now Francis I, and if I had been born a year earlier i could’ve added John XXIII. Once in a lifetime?!?! WTF?
Geeno
No one has mentioned that he’s the 666th pope. You can already google idiots who think he’ll be the anti-christ.
Which, BTW, means the average papal reign is three years. Again, Once in a lifetime?!?!
YellowJournalism
@mouse tolliver: hahahah! Thank God I’m not the only one. Heee…”Occupation?” “C0cksucker.”
(I also thought of Frances McDormand, then of the pope having a Fargo accent as he gave a blessing.)
ellie
The first thing that popped into my mind was that I used to have a cat named Frances, the female spelling, but still. God, I loved that cat.
maya
Officer Francis Muldoon, Car 54 reporting for duty, sir.
John Revolta
That there is what you call grandpop culture.
Odie Hugh Manatee
I like it that Cardinal mistermix keeps the first letter of his nym in lower case. It shows that he is an unpretentious humble man of the cloth.
rupert pupkin
I prefer Pope Francis–but everybody calls me “Psycho” Soyer–from Stripes.
“I call myself ‘Pope Francis’ but any of you guys call me Francis, and I’ll kill you.”
Hell, no matter what any of ’em call themselves, I call ’em ALL ‘Pope Psycho’.
stryx
Stripes is what should come to mind. “Relax, Francis”
Odie Hugh Manatee
@stryx:
How about Francis, one of the survivors from Left4Dead?
“Everybody havin’ as much fun as me?”
“Is anyone there? Marco!”
“I hate lawyers. When are they gonna get done practicing law?”
“A-frickin’-men.”
“This way kids!”
“Go to hell.”
“Yeah, I’m pretty awesome.”
“Watch my back! But don’t stare at my ass”
And in closing, a line from Bill, another survivor in L4D:
“Speak up, Francis! Your voice got all muffled from your head being so far up your ass!”