Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Santa Pope

Drunken Santas on a rampage in New Zealand, armed German robbers in Santa disguises, a British St. Nick wanted for flashing, and a Swedish vandal in a Santa outfit are giving the big man in red a bad name this year.

Not this one. This is Pope Benedict XVI, the German Shepherd, playing Holy Father Christmas on this first day of winter.

9 comments:

Dak-Ind said...

scary. he is not a very handsome man. i guess thats the reason he decided on a career with the church. sadly, i am a lapsed catholic. i go to mass on christmas and easter, and then only half-heartedly. i did not even recognize this scary guy as the pope... i thought he was an illustration of the "bad santas".

cube said...

This isn't the Pope's best photo. He looks decidedly grinch-like in this.

tlm said...

Fyvush Finkel is the new pope??

Jamie Dawn said...

Oh my goodness, he looks like a Star Wars villian.
That smile is unsettling.

cube said...

Hey, it's like the Pope got this photo taken at the Division of Motor Vehicles. We've all got one of these in OUR wallets.

Jen said...

I'm all over the Pope-as-Santa thing. That's pretty cool. But couldn't they, somehow, with his big Pope Closet find an outfit that actually went together.

Honestly, the man has access to more money than God and that's how they send him out?

Maybe we should get the Fab Five involved? I can just see it "Queer Eye in Vatican City." Hmmmmm.

Caz said...

I was quite sure he was a smurf when they announced him Pope, but no one believed me, but now I am vindicated - absolute PROOF in this photograph: the Pope is, indeed, king of the smurfs!

cube said...

Caz, how can he be the king of the smurfs if he isn't even blue?

Caz said...

The king wears the special red hat so that everyone knows he is the king - all smurfs look the same, even to smurfs.