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June 3, 2009

Get Them Out of the Way Now

Sometimes you just can't let an obvious joke (or a couple thousand of them) go by.

Some headlines are just made for comments threads, even if you feel a little bad about poking fun at a guy's name.

From Catholic News Agency: Bishop George Lucas appointed to Archdiocese of Omaha

"He'd better not take the Yub Yub song out of Revelation."

"I don't care what the archbishop says. Goliath did not shoot first!"

"All excommunications over the creation of Howard the Duck are hereby withdrawn."

"The good news: The archdiocese will no longer collect offerings. The bad news: It's retaining all merchandising rights."

Sorry, archbishop.

Comments

"The Holy Spirit is not just a matter of your midichlorian count!"

"I plan to introduce an extended version of the Holy Writ, expanding on minor characters seen in the first release, adding cool new cgi, and including a first-ever director's commentary, available exclusively from the Archdiocese. Look for future updates as well."

Howard the Duck??? SOMEONE needs to be eternally punished for that one!