Breaking news, seen on multiple TVs at my gym

[redbird]

Pope John Paul II is still dead.

Comments

[shesingsnow.livejournal.com]

Oh don't worry: it hasn't been three days yet.

[king-tirian.livejournal.com]

Jesus was only dead for about 40 hours. Hardly seems like such a trick to stay dead three days when you give him full credit for Friday and Sunday.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

I suppose some of the people anxiously following the news might have expected a miracle...

[bayarts.livejournal.com]

Yeah...but what about Generalissimo Francisco Franco? Is he?

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

AND NOW, TEXT NEWS FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED: GENERALISSIMO FRANCISCO FRANCO IS STILL DEAD!

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I have changed the name attached to my journal in protest.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Every time I make that comment, my wife tells me I'm being irreverent. She says that as if it is a bad thing.

[rainliver.livejournal.com]

Oh my God! That's actually what happened with Princess Diana. :) The coverage went on for weeks, maybe months.

[stealthpup.livejournal.com]

That's why I <3 video games.

But that reminds me -- I wonder who else is still dead.

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

I have it on good authority, though there's no official announcement yet, that Queen Victoria is.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Can you please not tell the Canadian government ? We'd like to keep the holiday we get for her birthday.

[annafdd.livejournal.com]

You think he's dead over there? You should see how dead he is over here! He's so dead they are still finding things to say, and this was after three days of non-stop coverage when he was merely dying. And we haven't gotten to the funeral yet.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

The flags on the Musee de Beaux Arts downtown are at half mast. It actually took me a little while to work out why.

"Oh what a circus, that's how to go.
When they're ringing your curtain down
Demand to be buried like Eva Peron!"

That's what I always say.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

One of my friends (a fellow NPR junkie) is bitter in advance about the next 6 or 7 weeks. Eulogies, funeral, punditry about the election, punditry about the new pope--it all adds up.

[alanro.livejournal.com]

And so is Philip K. Dick, dammit...

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

I hear he was also Catholic.

[dejaspirit.livejournal.com]

OMG! Still

Jeez. I thought Catholicism was one of those 'die and rise' religions.

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

And ain't that a mighty fine thing, media coverage aside.

[carandol.livejournal.com]

Look on the bright side. Over here we've got a looming general election, the pope's funeral, *and* a royal wedding to look forward to.

[xopher-vh.livejournal.com]

I'm sure someone in that crowd of prelates has a stake hidden under his cassock.