The Pope Was A Wetass…

Who knew? You’d think that somewhere in the millions of words and images eulogizing good ol’ JP II that some enterprising reporter, some blow-dried TV correspondent with an eye for something more than the thoroughly predictable, would have come up with this critical nugget of biographical information. But no. Once again it is the much maligned Blogs (referred to as a “circle-jerk by a bunch of guys in pajamas” (or something to that effect) by a honcho at CNN who obviously had a very interesting adolescence), that produced the goods. In this case, it was the ever-interesting Horse’s Mouth, who came up with the photos of a much younger Karel Wojtyla dipping his paddle. Check it…

“And it was over here that I saw a bass that had a face like the Virgin Mary…”

“Damn, if all this praying ever takes me anywhere, I might have to give all this up…”