Saturday, January 12, 2013

Etch-A-Pope! | The Most Blasphemous Game Since Civilization

The Pope has a book out about the Infancy Gospels of Jesus, or rather his take on the infancy, less the apocryphal texts and the Council of Nicea muddying the waters. This is the back jacket of that book:


To amuse a coworker, I placed the book in front of my face and jostled it as I quoted Return of the Jedi:
 Good! Good! Now, strike me down with all of your hatred, and your journey towards the Dark Side shall be complete!"
Apparently, she always imagine Pope Benedict had a squeaky rat voice, which makes sense considering his name was Ratzinger.

Interestingly, since "Ratskeller" is the name of at east one dive bar in every college town, literally German for "rat cellar," it stands to reason that the German Pope's name means "one who [zing]s rats." I'm not sure exactly what German verb "zing" would be the root of, however. Cursory research reveals only that Ratzinger is Bavarian for "one from Ratzing," and there is a Southern Bavarian town called Ratzing. So, basically, the Pope is named "One from the place where rats and Zinged."

Anyway.

Somehow we also determined that the pope would need a new face to match his crazy voices, but since I couldn't come up with just one to waste my time on, I created this:


It's Etch-A-Pope!

Mix and match your favorite pope pieces, or create brand new ones using only a pen and the parts of a Post-It note closest to the sticky strip!

We have Cat Pope!


W. C. Fields Pope!


Derpy-Pope!


Terminator Pope! (Alternately "Robot Baboon Al Gore Pope" maybe?)


 Emperor Palpipope!


 Extra-Derpy-Pope! (Alternately "Hillbilly Pope" or "Pope Cletus.")


And PinochiPope! The Pope who always lies!

(Better known as "Regular Pope.")
Oh snap.

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