{"id":2798,"date":"2008-02-28T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/02\/joke-2\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T22:05:00","slug":"joke-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/02\/joke-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/R8d3BWELsKI\/AAAAAAAABOE\/Wf155yKwwSk\/s1600-h\/carey.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer;width: 119px;height: 155px\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/R8d3BWELsKI\/AAAAAAAABOE\/Wf155yKwwSk\/s200\/carey.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/R8d2yGELsII\/AAAAAAAABN0\/7gIeppyshxc\/s1600-h\/John+Paul-II.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 142px;height: 158px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/R8d2yGELsII\/AAAAAAAABN0\/7gIeppyshxc\/s200\/John+Paul-II.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/R8d27WELsJI\/AAAAAAAABN8\/EkhA9CBh_cY\/s1600-h\/Monroe.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 115px;height: 168px\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/R8d27WELsJI\/AAAAAAAABN8\/EkhA9CBh_cY\/s200\/Monroe.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pope John Paul gets to the pearly gates and St Peter says, \u201cWell, it\u2019s good to see you, but you know you were a bit hard on the women down there. They wanted to be priests and so forth, but you kept them down. So your penance is to walk around down there for a time with this woman.<\/p>\n<p>An old feminist nun comes out. She\u2019s ugly as sin. She\u2019s got a voice like a screech owl. She\u2019s wearing a polyester pantsuit. She takes John Paul\u2019s arm and as they walk along a circle of purgatory she berates him\u2026\u201dYou\u2019re a misogynist. You\u2019ve got problems with women.\u201d She shakes her finger and gives him a proper old earful. He nods and goes along and tries to be patient. As they walk along he sees George Carey tripping along with Marilyn Monroe on his arm. John Paul sees this and wonders what is going on.<\/p>\n<p>Next time he comes around to St Peter he says, \u201cLook Father. I tried my best. I kept women\u2019s ordination out of the Catholic Church, and this is my reward? What about that George Carey. He gave in to the feminists. He ordained women and now look where his church is. He did all that and I get this harridan and he gets to walk along with Marilyn Monroe??!! What\u2019s up?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>St Peter says, \u201cIt\u2019s none of your business what penance I give Marilyn Monroe.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope John Paul gets to the pearly gates and St Peter says, \u201cWell, it\u2019s good to see you, but you know you were a bit hard on the women down there. They wanted to be priests and so forth, but you kept them down. 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