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#158028 03/30/06 12:22 AM
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from the Word Detective "Bob's your uncle" discussion:

>>Since the very word nepotism derives from the Italian word for nephew (from the practice of Italian popes giving preferment to nephews, a euphemism for their bastard sons)...<<

I did not know that.

#158029 03/30/06 02:36 AM
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No wonder religion gets such a bad rap.

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Some might suggest that any connection between medieval Italian popes and religion is coincidental. Not me, of course ...

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I've just begun reading The Illuminator (can't think of the author, and the book's downstairs). It is set in the late 1300's, and I'm getting indications that there was at that time a French pope, whom somebody(ies) in Britain was wanting to get rid of. Is this accurate, does anyone know? I haven't studied history of religion, really; I don't recall ever hearing of a pope in France.

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... I'm getting indications that there was at that time a French pope, whom somebody(ies) in Britain was wanting to get rid of. Is this accurate, does anyone know? I haven't studied history of religion, really; I don't recall ever hearing of a pope in France.




Pope Clement V moved the Roman Curia to Avignon in 1309, which the Cardinals found most galling.

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... I'm getting indications that there was at that time a French pope, whom somebody(ies) in Britain was wanting to get rid of. Is this accurate, does anyone know? I haven't studied history of religion, really; I don't recall ever hearing of a pope in France.




Pope Clement V moved the Roman Curia to Avignon in 1309, which the Cardinals found most galling.




In three part disharmony, even.


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Pope Clement V moved the Roman Curia to Avignon in 1309, which the Cardinals found most galling.




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In three part disharmony, even.




You two ever thought of hitting the vaudeville circuit?

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> vaudeville circuit?

just don't ask one of them to play the pope organ....


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#158037 03/30/06 11:32 PM
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Avignon in 1309

This did lead, indirectly, to the naming of a rather marvelous wine, Chateauneuf-du-Pape.


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Pope Clement V moved the Roman Curia to Avignon in 1309, which the Cardinals found most galling.




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In three part disharmony, even.




You two ever thought of hitting the vaudeville circuit?




No, but we're thinking of writing a Romaine-a-clef. Let us tell you the plot. It's set in Crouton-on-Hudson, down the road a bacon bit from you. Background music will be done on Father Steve's mandoline when we finally get around to the movie. We think it will bowl you over. Is than an oeuf?

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Someday after we retire we can look back on the show and say "Truly, those were our salad days."

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There's a breeding farm for Newfoundland dogs called "Chateau Newf du Pup."

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