Pope: Is it safe to go out?
Swiss Guard: I think so Holiness. We have shooed them into another section and deployed reinforcements to hold them back.
Pope: Their cries are deafening!
Swiss Guard: They are loud Holiness.
Pope: Was anyone hurt?
Swiss Guard: Ten cardinals were last seen being chased by them. Ten Swiss Guards are reporting minor injuries.
Pope: How did they get in?
Swiss Guard: Unknown currently Holiness.
Pope: Execute them all! I want no survivors!
Swiss Guard: Yes, your Holiness. What should we do with the bodies?
Pope: Eat them and give the remainder not eaten to the poor.
Swiss Guard: One Thousand fat American turkeys will be plenty of good eating! Last year it was only five hundred/
Pope: Yanquis locos! They are, como se dice, gas lighting me!
And with that PopeWatch will be on Thanksgiving hiatus until November 28.
“Ten cardinals were last seen being chased by them.”
Careful.
Broad Breasted White and Broad Breasted Bronze, domestic turkeys most often found in the market, are bred for a maximum weight gain per pound of feed – will die of a heart attack if pressed to far.
Heritage Turkeys like: Bourbon Red, Spanish Black or Narragansett can be put to the test-
Our older son is Cordoba, Spain visiting his girlfriend and her family. He texted me requesting the recipe for cranberry orange relish. Why? Because he is cooking Thanksgiving dinner for the grandmother’s village. I’ll have to ask him if the turkeys are Spanish Blacks. Thanks, David WS.
Best to send ganders to the Vatican for Christmas gooses. They are aggressive. Their nips at the cardinals’ ankles would really smart. Which reminds me: at a highly secure building on NAS Cubic Pt geese were used behind a double barbed wire fence as sentries. The geese didn’t last long as they couldn’t distinguish friend from foe.
Happy Thankgiving, everyone!
A few years ago, the Louisiana son raised five or six turkeys. I would go back and gobble at the toms. They’d fluff up and stride toward me until I raised my arms and moved forward. They aren’t so dumb. They stopped the strutting.
BTW Thursday the youngest son [Deer Slayer] arrowed a 180 lb., ten-point white tail buck on eastern Long Island.
St. Dismas pray for us!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Know Jesus know peace. No Jesus no peace.