Pope FAQ - Confirming the Death of the Pope
Questions: How do they make sure the Pope is really dead and not just faking it?
Answer: That's an extremely important question, especially given the whole lying in state thing - which really freaks me out. Quite frankly I'm half-expecting Ratzinger to turn his back on the body for just a second and the Pope to go all Michael Myers on him: disappearing and eventually ending up in an abandoned summer camp killing half-naked Hollywood starlets with a butcher's knife.
That being said, in order to confirm the death of the Pope the Camerlengo hits the Pope of the forehead three times with a silver hammer while calling out the Pope's Christian name. If there is no response, the Pope is confirmed to have passed on. This is a centuries old ritual that works because the hammer is actually a +12 Silver Hammer of Necromancy.
Question: Oh dear Lord. Why, oh why, would you possible go there?
Answer: Because there's comedy, there's high comedy and than there's Papal Dungeons and Dragons comedy.
Answer: That's an extremely important question, especially given the whole lying in state thing - which really freaks me out. Quite frankly I'm half-expecting Ratzinger to turn his back on the body for just a second and the Pope to go all Michael Myers on him: disappearing and eventually ending up in an abandoned summer camp killing half-naked Hollywood starlets with a butcher's knife.
That being said, in order to confirm the death of the Pope the Camerlengo hits the Pope of the forehead three times with a silver hammer while calling out the Pope's Christian name. If there is no response, the Pope is confirmed to have passed on. This is a centuries old ritual that works because the hammer is actually a +12 Silver Hammer of Necromancy.
Question: Oh dear Lord. Why, oh why, would you possible go there?
Answer: Because there's comedy, there's high comedy and than there's Papal Dungeons and Dragons comedy.
posted by BertramWooster at 12:22 AM
1 Comments:
I think the Silver Hammer of Necromancy is opening up for Overkill at L'Amour in Brooklyn this summer. Rock on, dude!
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