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Breakin’ for the Pope
Here’s a legitimate news story about Polish break dancers performing in the Vatican for the Pope. Cool.
Patrick • News • 01/29/04 • 7 comments
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Comments
Dan • 01/31/04 • 8:29 PM:“Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.”
If one day I realized I could be a good break-dancer, would I have had the obligation to develop it? It makes me wish I tried.
Patrick • 02/01/04 • 12:27 AM:What I imagine happened is this: The Pope, whether because he’s too old or too busy, didn’t know a) that break-dancers were coming or b) what “break-dancing” was. When confronted with the spectacle, he scrambled for something to say about it that would be a) nice, b) encouraging, and c) related to God. That narrowed down his possible comments considerably, so he ended up with his generalization about artistic talent and an allusion to Jesus’ parable of the talents. I think he did an ok job, considering the circumstances.
And, Dan, where did you ever learn that it’s a good idea to use both quotation marks and italics. Please cut that out. If you’re doing it just to bug me, congratulations, it bugs me. If you have some designer’s secret reason, go ahead and lay it on me. Either way, just cut it out. The <blockquote> tag may interest you.
Dan • 02/01/04 • 1:53 AM:Yeah, I gathered as much about the Pope’s quote. It can’t be easy having to say something nice about everything people do to/for/in front of you.
It is 12:45 AM and there are at least 5 cars honking their horns outside. I wonder what the Pope would say to them. Would they be honking their horns if they knew the Pope was watching them?
Patrick • 02/01/04 • 9:54 AM:Did you even consider that maybe the cars are in a sort of pentagon shape (approximating a circle), each one’s driver able to see the rear bumper of the car in front of it, and each car has a “Honk if you love Jesus” sticker? Huh?
Dad • 02/02/04 • 10:45 AM:Maybe they’re not cars at all but geese, honking away. Didja ever think of that?
Dan • 02/04/04 • 12:51 PM:I didn’t think of that and here’s why: I lived in the Heart of Newark, New Jersey, for 2 years. I know what a car horn sounds like. It does not sound like geese.
I also used to have the car alarm sounds and sequence memorized, another result of living in the big (dirty) city.
Dan • 02/04/04 • 12:53 PM:Or did you mean that the geese were “honking away” from behind the wheels of their cars, that the cars themselves cannot honk themselves? I also didn’t consider that at the time. Still, that would have been car horns and not geese horns (or beaks, or vocal chords).
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