Comments on the Pope's Death?

Well...if a car modeler builds a model of a '57 Chevy; is that not just as "historical" as an aircraft modeler who builds a late 1950's jet? And the many posts regarding the "Pope Mobile" suggests that these current news stories *do* have a link to our hobby.

I didn't know there were Atkins in Poland. ;) However, I'm very sad at his passing. Personally, it tends to remind me of my father's death. Historically, he's going to be a tough act to follow. He was around so long that I barely remember any of the others in my lifetime.

Bill Banaszak

Care to fill us in on what that prophecy says? I've never heard of it.

Rob

snipped-for-privacy@mail.com (Rob van Riel) wrote in :

According to a site that I saw about the prophecy, there are two names left on the list: "Glory of the Olive" and "Peter the Roman".

On thinking of the first "name"...a black Pope? A Greek Pope? The latter might be desirable in order to heal the rift with the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Russians.

Just thinking aloud.

BTW, I hear the Vatican Police has little go-karts made to look like Lamborghinis. That might make a nice model project too.

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce

The pope had a stroke Then he was on dope Now he has croaked time for a new pope

I personally hope it signals the beginning of the end of humankind~!

Where oh were is that high speed 3 mile rock in space? Hit us now!!!!

Please!!!!!

Everyone must die!!!

A few months back Ferrari presented the Pope with a 1/8th scale model of their F-2004 Formula One car. The presentation was attended by Schumacher, Barichello, Todt and Montezemelo. Apparently the Pope was a big Ferarri fan.

Dan

That *does* kind of sound like a "modern theatre" update of Chaucer's "Tales"...

:o)

Entering the priesthood never crossed my mind at any point in my life - and yet now I see the possibilities of what might have been. A successful career with the frock could have led to every kit in my stash getting built - some day and white smoke permitting. ;-)

Ah, just as well. If I heard correctly the Pope spoke/understood 27 languages!?! Highly doubtful the 60% of English I have mastered could have polled well.

WmB

snipped-for-privacy@zzzzonnet.nl.invalid (Harro de Jong) wrote in news:962E8D491Wile.E.Coyote@62.58.50.216:

It's delusional poo. Vague enough to read anything into. Basically we are in the end times. Blather. That lines been around forever. Remember noone knows the time of the Second Coming but God. Anyone professing to is a false prophet and is best avoided.

That puts you well ahead of some of us here. ;)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Actually Kurt I remember hearing years ago (15-20 years ago) that he understood 20 some languages. Not necessarily spoke them all nor even fluent but could understand what someone was saying to him. Polish is a given, at his age and having been a cardinal in the Catholic church he would have had to know latin and greek at a minimum, depending on his specific order aramaic is a good possibility....once you have the two "classical languages" understanding spanish, italian and a few odd romance languages would have been fairly easy from the latin and greek would probably give him some understanding of southern balkan languages. Polish would probably lead to an understanding of several slavic languages as well. Of course some of what he understood may have just been dialects like Castillian, Tyrolian or Romansche (some classify Romansche as a language, some don't).

Just great - yet another advantage to being Pope. I'd be able to read all of the nice model and military magazines coming out of eastern Europe these days. ;-)

WmB

You'd be amazed at how much you can get out of those articles just using a Polish-English dictionary. Most of the nouns and adjectives from one Slavic language will be similar enough to make some sort of sense out of the writing. At the least, you can usually get stuff like colors. 'Course, I expect most of us just look at the pretty pictures.

Mark Schynert

Yep. I've poked around some of them long enough to actually picked up on some of the words. The online dictionaries are helpful though I suspect sometimes the military phrases tosses 'em for a loop. A God send is when a unique English word pops up. A lot of the time it's like a cypher key to the riddle of the Sphynx. The toughest thing was finding a cyrillic alphabet translator that worked with MS cut and paste so I could make heads or tails of the Russkij mags.

Mostly though, I look at the pretty pictures and think to myself - I wonder how many of these they could sell if they were in God's own English. ;-)

WmB

If it doesn't at least have English captions it has to have pictures I can't get elsewhere. Especially for ships since I go to NARA all the time.

"Ron" wrote

Sounds like knowing "yes", "no", "father", "bless you", and "thank you" counts as "knowing" a language if someone's inclined to talk you up. My brother-in-law has traveled extensively and makes a point of learning about a dozen phrases relevant to wherever he goes. I'll have to clip some useful lines from the Pope's obits for B-i-l's retirement dinner next year. . .

KL

I've been watching the scenes in Rome on TV and there is a down side to all that we are seeing. This Pope has struck a chord with more people than has last couple of predecessors and the outpouring of sentiment is showing it. I suspect the crowds are the biggest in Rome's history. The tourist industry is making a bundle, but one group not happy about the scene is the Italian Security people. They are going to have George W and his Father and Bill Clinton and a whole bunch of world leaders in town with this massive throng of humanity. If there is a suicidal Al Kaida cell in Italy, they have an opportunity to make a statement like they may never get again. As I said, I would hate to be an official of the Italian Security Services right now, I bet they are having nightmares!

Bill Shuey

IMO, even the Al-Cuccas would have to realize that would be self defeating. Half the Western world is back on the fence again about fighting the terrorists aggressively, such a brutal attack would galvanize most of it (at least in Italy) against them. Optimistically speaking that is.

WmB