A Potpourri of Popery: Fun With Hats

Why is it we love to see our public figures in ridiculous outfits -- politicians, celebrities, and especially Popes?

Perhaps it's the incongruity of it all, because it is "unexpected". The more serious the figure, the more we love the ridiculous.

Here is one thing I like about Pope Francis: he is almost always smiling. He seems to like this Christianity thing. Me too. As St Teresa of Avila said: "God save us from sour-faced saints."

So without further ado: A Potpourri of Popery.

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Papal Planking

Papal planking? We did it first. Servant of the Servants of God.

According to Wikipedia, ‘Planking is the act of lying face down with arms to the sides of the body, in unusual public spaces and photographing it.  The term “planking” was coined in Australia and became a fad in 2011.’

h/t CuriousPresbyterian

I Know What It Is But ...

For some reason I looked at this and thought: Cool. The Pope has a light saber.

Virtual Glory

Who's to say that shameless posturing, begging, bribing, pandering, and incessant nagging don't get you anywhere? The final results are in from The Crescat's 2010 Cannonball Catholic Blog Awards.

Sean over at the Catholic Roundup has a podcast with none other than Kat, The Crescat herself, as his guest to announce the winners; Kat says that she would like "to confirm that I DO NOT sound like Kathleen Turner after smoking a carton of cigarettes and a night of hard drinking" -- although we would have laughed if she had.

Remember that half the fun was not taking yourself too seriously and a chance to get introduced to some great Catholic blogs out there that you otherwise wouldn't have known about. You gotta keep the funny in mind!

One spoiler, WBN is the winner in Best Potpourri of Popery! Thanks to all the little people (by that I mean the Nodlings who are all under four feet high). This virtual award is gonna look great next to my other imaginary accomplishments.

Oh, and the Chicago-land style voting didn't hurt either. A big shout out to my peeps in the Cannonball Voting Bloc: LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy: winner Snarkiest Blog; Aka the Mom, Shoved To Them: winner Best Under-Appreciated Blog; Joe, Defend Us In Battle: runner up Best New Kid On The Block. (The Machine can even crush a Bloc in Chicago-land ...)

Thanks again, and the homebrew will be ready in about four weeks; if you start biking now, you'll be here just in time.

Last Chance

There are a mere few hours left to get your vote in for WBN as Best Potpourri of Popery.
That's right, just when you thought the Catholic blogosphere's snarkiest awards contest would never end -- it ends tonight.

WBN would like to thank all the people we hounded who voted. You guys are the best!

Pabstbier Is Pope Beer

If it's good enough for the Pope it's good enough for me!

Weideneder Brau Vertriebs GmbH, a family-owned brewery in nearby Tann, Germany, has created a special brew called Pabst Bier/Pope Beer. The label reads, "Dedicated to the Great Son of our Homeland, Pope Benedict XVI."

"We consider it to be our obligation to appreciate the election of a Bavarian Pope in a Bavarian way," says brewery Weideneder Bräu, which is local to where young Joe Ratzinger grew up. "The Pope’s Beer is a festival beer of highest quality containing only exquisite raw materials, presenting a mild character and a light colour, brewed strictly in accordance with the German beer purity law." h/t Ship of Fools

Speaking of the Pope, there is still time to vote WBN to victory in the Best Potpourri of Popery category. We are going strong, but we need to fight to the finish!

Vote! Vote! Vote! Minions awake! Then you too can share in basking in the glory of a truly pointless award. We wants it.

Aka The Mom is giving out donuts, WBN is offering homebrew!

Onward Cannonball Bloc!

• Nod at Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, Best Potpourri of Popery
• Aka The Mom's, Shoved to Them for Best Under Appreciated
• LarryD at Acts of the Apostasy for Best Hifreakinglarious Church Militant, Snarkiest, Bat Guano Crazy
• Joe from Defend Us In Battle for New Kid on the Block.

Potpourri

The Pope does impressions? I'll bet he's great at charades, too.