Daily Show airs:

[argent_paladin]

**Do not read unless you have a good sense of humor about the Church**

Check out [url="http://www.comedycentral.com/mp/play.jhtml?reposid=/multimedia/tds/colb/colbert_10048.html"]this link[/url]! Find out who the next pope will be, according to expert popologist, Stephen Colbert, the Daily Show's Vatican correspondent.
Here's the text of the ad:
[i]Cardinal Ratzinger dicit amat magna mater ecclesia. Sed qui veritas est? Eram prognatus in Germania. Ut eram Martin Luther. Validus ecclesia est alius reformation superstes per a sausage-eating bastard? Ego Cardinal Arinze, et ego probatus is nuntius. [/i]

And a translation:
Cardinal Ratzinger says the great mother Church loves. But who is the truth? I was born(?) in Germany. As I was Martin Luther. The church is strong surviving the reformation by a sausage-eating bastard? I Cardinal Arinze, and I this message having been approved.

Here it is in better Latin: [i]
Cardinalis Ratzingerius dicit se magnam Matrem Ecclesiam amare. Immo vero quid veri? Ille natus est in Germania. Ubi quoque erat natus iste; Martinus Lutherius. Num autem est Ecclesia satis virium ut possit superesse alii Reformationi per alterum nothum physcophagum? Cardinal Arinzeius sum, qui hunc nuntium probavi.[/i]Latin text and translation found [url="http://www.houseofhagen.net/"]here[/url]. With emendations from [url="http://caelestis.info/sauvagenoble/2005/04/spectaculum-hodiernum.html"]here[/url].

Edited April 15, 2005 by argent_paladin

[Kilroy the Ninja]

"Papplication"


That's great!

[bookwyrm]

I love the Daily Show...

[joemal1117]

Thanks for that! I needed a good laugh. Plus reading it as it should have been properly written made the whole thing even funnier. it's good to laugh at ourselves once and awhile

[Azriel]

LMBO...

[Carrie]

[azaelia]

:crackup:


The Daily Show :wub:

[Luthien]

:rotfl:

[musturde]

[quote name='Azriel' date='Apr 15 2005, 08:29 AM'] LMBO... [/quote]
LIMBO?!

[Mateo el Feo]

I'm not a big "Daily Show" fan, but this skit was hilarious. The "attack ads" cracked me up!

[Theoketos]

You can almost say that it was done with respect.

[Azriel]

[quote name='musturde' date='Apr 15 2005, 11:02 AM'] LIMBO?! [/quote]
"every limbo boy and girl ... "

rather, laughing my butt off ... more appropriate I thought ...

[Thy Geekdom Come]

That's a really bad English translation of the Latin...not even close.

[Mickey's_Girl]

I thought it was HYSTERICAL! Even the bad Latin part was funny. Heh heh.

I sent it to my friend and she said she hadn't laughed so hard in a year. I included pictures of both men. She's not Catholic, and she goes--"IS IT TRUE?!?" I assured her that it was just a joke.

MG

[argent_paladin]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Apr 15 2005, 12:07 PM'] That's a really bad English translation of the Latin...not even close. [/quote]
No, the English translation is good. It's the latin that is awful. But I thought that made it funnier. When I was listening to it I was the type of latin that I would produce: bad.