Re: Girl Genius (GG) 7 March 2008

In article <Jxq8My.Gu1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>Either that, or he means the seven Popes who've held the See of
>Rome since he wrote the monograph.  John Paul II reigned for so
>long -- twenty-six years --that he may have skewed the perceptions
>of those who are young enough that they can't remember any other
>Pope.  But his predecessor, JP I, reigned only thirty-three days.
>Popes, being generally already old men when elected, don't
>generally last long (particularly in the absence of modern
>medicine).

	Now, what was the name of the elderly Pope who was put in
as a care-taker for the presumably short time that he had left, who
then lived for years and years and years after his selection?
-- 
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(For all your "The problem with
defending the English language [...]" T-****rt, cup and tote-bag needs)