Pope No Girly Man!

According to the Governator:

Pope John Paul II was “a very physical guy and very good at sports,” California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday, expressing admiration for the pontiff’s devotion to physical fitness.

As Catholics worldwide reflected on the pope on the day of his funeral at the Vatican, former bodybuilding champion Schwarzenegger recalled meeting the Polish pontiff while visiting with his wife Maria Shriver and her parents in 1983.

“He also talked to me about his exercise regime,” the Catholic Schwarzenegger told KNX radio in Los Angeles.

“That he worked out at 5 o’clock in the morning every day. He did his push-ups and sit-ups,” the former Mr. Olympia said. “You know he was a very physical guy and very good at sports and very good skier and soccer player.”


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150 responses to “Pope No Girly Man!”

  1. Kim

    I voted in the gubernatorial election. Maria Shriver should have been on the ballot!

  2. Kim

    I voted in the gubernatorial election. Maria Shriver should have been on the ballot!

  3. Gerry

    The quote works a treat if you read it with a thick Austrian accent.

  4. Gerry

    The quote works a treat if you read it with a thick Austrian accent.

  5. Mark

    I see what you mean, Gerry!

  6. Mark

    I see what you mean, Gerry!

  7. Jason Soon

    Kim
    I hope you voted for Arnie! (who incidentally is also a Milton Friedman afficionado)

  8. Jason Soon

    Kim
    I hope you voted for Arnie! (who incidentally is also a Milton Friedman afficionado)

  9. Kim

    I was thinking about it, Jason – would have been a rare Republican vote – but couldn’t square it with my feminist conscience. I didn’t vote for Bustamente either – uninspiring hack…

  10. Kim

    I was thinking about it, Jason – would have been a rare Republican vote – but couldn’t square it with my feminist conscience. I didn’t vote for Bustamente either – uninspiring hack…

  11. Jason Soon

    feminist conscience? he’s one of the few social liberals in the Republican party (and really who cares about his past personal life? that’s like saying don’t vote for Clinton because he’s a sleaze)

  12. Jason Soon

    feminist conscience? he’s one of the few social liberals in the Republican party (and really who cares about his past personal life? that’s like saying don’t vote for Clinton because he’s a sleaze)

  13. Kim

    Who says I voted for Clinton? I’m not telling! :) I voted for Kerry last year though.

  14. Kim

    Who says I voted for Clinton? I’m not telling! :) I voted for Kerry last year though.

  15. Jason Soon

    my point is Clinton’s behaviour was on the margins of sexual harrasment too (and I’m not talking about Monica Lewinsky) insofar as you’d take the claims on face value given they come from political opponents – and the same qualifications would apply to Arnie. Social liberals and closet libertarians in the Republican party should be encouraged – Ah-nold for Prez! (and Clint for VP?)

  16. Jason Soon

    my point is Clinton’s behaviour was on the margins of sexual harrasment too (and I’m not talking about Monica Lewinsky) insofar as you’d take the claims on face value given they come from political opponents – and the same qualifications would apply to Arnie. Social liberals and closet libertarians in the Republican party should be encouraged – Ah-nold for Prez! (and Clint for VP?)

  17. Kim

    Admittedly it’s hard to find a guy with a huge ego in American politics who hasn’t done the sexual harrassment thing. And it’s hard to find a guy without a huge ego not to vote for (I include Ralph Nader in the category of guys with huge egos!).

  18. Kim

    Admittedly it’s hard to find a guy with a huge ego in American politics who hasn’t done the sexual harrassment thing. And it’s hard to find a guy without a huge ego not to vote for (I include Ralph Nader in the category of guys with huge egos!).

  19. Tiny Tyrant

    I didn’t vote for the (ex-)Pope.

  20. Tiny Tyrant

    I didn’t vote for the (ex-)Pope.

  21. Mark

    Are you supporting the Kim for Pope Joan II campaign? Get in while the bandwagon’s still rolling!

  22. Mark

    Are you supporting the Kim for Pope Joan II campaign? Get in while the bandwagon’s still rolling!

  23. david tiley

    No, I want a Maori Pope.

    Arnie would respect that!

  24. david tiley

    No, I want a Maori Pope.

    Arnie would respect that!

  25. Jacques Chester

    The pope also played Rugby Union, which to my rugby-tragic sister is final proof that it really is the “game they play in heaven”.

  26. Jacques Chester

    The pope also played Rugby Union, which to my rugby-tragic sister is final proof that it really is the “game they play in heaven”.

  27. Homer Paxton

    David, Popes cannot be maorried!

  28. Homer Paxton

    David, Popes cannot be maorried!

  29. Jason Soon

    christ almighty, that is the worst pun homer has ever made.

  30. Jason Soon

    christ almighty, that is the worst pun homer has ever made.

  31. Jason Soon

    correction, i spoke too quickly – it isn’t even a pun!

  32. Jason Soon

    correction, i spoke too quickly – it isn’t even a pun!

  33. Fyodor

    That’s a big call, Jason. He’s delivered some absolute shockers.

  34. Fyodor

    That’s a big call, Jason. He’s delivered some absolute shockers.

  35. Homer Paxton

    Does he have the Lah de Dahs album to pooped to pope!

  36. Homer Paxton

    Does he have the Lah de Dahs album to pooped to pope!

  37. Fyodor

    Exhibit #3184. The defence rests.

  38. Fyodor

    Exhibit #3184. The defence rests.

  39. Homer Paxton

    If that is your confession you haven’t a prayer.
    You are going to Pell!

  40. Homer Paxton

    If that is your confession you haven’t a prayer.
    You are going to Pell!

  41. Mark

    Fyodor and Jason, you’re only encouraging Homer, I fear!

  42. Mark

    Fyodor and Jason, you’re only encouraging Homer, I fear!

  43. Jason Soon

    As Luther said to the cow ‘Here I stand, I can do no udder’. (if you can’t beat them, join them)

  44. Jason Soon

    As Luther said to the cow ‘Here I stand, I can do no udder’. (if you can’t beat them, join them)

  45. Fyodor

    Mark, Homer’s on his own personal Odyssey.

  46. Fyodor

    Mark, Homer’s on his own personal Odyssey.

  47. Mark

    I’m now thinking of Homer lying in the sand begging the Gods not to send him to Hades!

  48. Mark

    I’m now thinking of Homer lying in the sand begging the Gods not to send him to Hades!

  49. Fyodor

    Nah, his future’s so bright he can wear hades.

  50. Fyodor

    Nah, his future’s so bright he can wear hades.

  51. Mark

    I was going to revisit the comments policy and ban puns, but this is too much fun, and anyway, I remembered how much Derrida liked puns!

  52. Mark

    I was going to revisit the comments policy and ban puns, but this is too much fun, and anyway, I remembered how much Derrida liked puns!

  53. Homer Paxton

    Is it too late tosay thae last pope was ples apart from fis predecessors.
    Anyone who says differently is Krackows!

  54. Homer Paxton

    Is it too late tosay thae last pope was ples apart from fis predecessors.
    Anyone who says differently is Krackows!

  55. Mark

    That’s the worst one yet Homer! I saw you punning over at Currency’s place before – Pell and Hell is actually not a pun!

  56. Mark

    That’s the worst one yet Homer! I saw you punning over at Currency’s place before – Pell and Hell is actually not a pun!

  57. Homer Paxton

    I should have said previously whilst a Pope is not allowed to be maorried it is essential he is Maryed. Indeed he must be immaculate in his conseption of the topic.
    I will go to bed now after that pregnant pause!

  58. Homer Paxton

    I should have said previously whilst a Pope is not allowed to be maorried it is essential he is Maryed. Indeed he must be immaculate in his conseption of the topic.
    I will go to bed now after that pregnant pause!

  59. Jason Soon

    Homer
    That was a-Paul-ing! You make baby jesus cry.
    Catholic, Protestant – a Paxt On both your houses!

  60. Jason Soon

    Homer
    That was a-Paul-ing! You make baby jesus cry.
    Catholic, Protestant – a Paxt On both your houses!

  61. Mark

    Jesus wept!

  62. Mark

    Jesus wept!

  63. Jason Soon

    Back to the original topic of this post, Arnie’s words are Testament that the Pope was no emasculated conceptor!
    No (papal) bull!

  64. Jason Soon

    Back to the original topic of this post, Arnie’s words are Testament that the Pope was no emasculated conceptor!
    No (papal) bull!

  65. Mark

    Jesus, Mary & Joseph!

    Jason – you should check out the Nietzschean stuff at the end of the Cold War thread…

  66. Mark

    Jesus, Mary & Joseph!

    Jason – you should check out the Nietzschean stuff at the end of the Cold War thread…

  67. Fyodor

    Ecce Homer.

  68. Fyodor

    Ecce Homer.

  69. Jason Soon

    fyodor
    i take a bow to you, and so should homer …

  70. Jason Soon

    fyodor
    i take a bow to you, and so should homer …

  71. Homer Paxton

    I think I will put up the white smoke.
    The PUNnishment has been more than enough and if thee is any more we wil all be BANISCHed! Mark my words.

  72. Homer Paxton

    I think I will put up the white smoke.
    The PUNnishment has been more than enough and if thee is any more we wil all be BANISCHed! Mark my words.

  73. Fyodor

    Homer: no retreat, no surrenderrida.

  74. Fyodor

    Homer: no retreat, no surrenderrida.

  75. Jason Soon

    Paxton is a true PUNdit and has HOMEd in on the essence of the issue, but I am Poped from all this effort.

  76. Jason Soon

    Paxton is a true PUNdit and has HOMEd in on the essence of the issue, but I am Poped from all this effort.

  77. Fyodor

    Homer has declared paxt on us, the luther, but as one friedman to a nader I fear we may soon be marked for pell. I could not kerry less, homerver, as I’m enjoaning myself too mark.

  78. Fyodor

    Homer has declared paxt on us, the luther, but as one friedman to a nader I fear we may soon be marked for pell. I could not kerry less, homerver, as I’m enjoaning myself too mark.

  79. Jason Soon

    Hei digger -
    Arendt we taking this too far?
    (rawls on the floor laughing)

  80. Jason Soon

    Hei digger -
    Arendt we taking this too far?
    (rawls on the floor laughing)

  81. Fyodor

    Foucauld if I know. Without hegelers, how do you know weber you’re hitting your marx?

  82. Fyodor

    Foucauld if I know. Without hegelers, how do you know weber you’re hitting your marx?

  83. Homer Paxton

    we could have a BBQ using a Weber but I would max up the food.
    I could bring a Tawney port however you would get a rise of capitalism from it.

    The place is owned by a book-keeper there it has a double entry.
    I don’t know who gets the credits or debits for it but journally speaking the person is a ledgerend!

  84. Homer Paxton

    we could have a BBQ using a Weber but I would max up the food.
    I could bring a Tawney port however you would get a rise of capitalism from it.

    The place is owned by a book-keeper there it has a double entry.
    I don’t know who gets the credits or debits for it but journally speaking the person is a ledgerend!

  85. Jason Soon

    I’ll bring some Protestant spirits to this BBQ, Homer. Will Johnny Calvin do? Some Scotch Enlightenment? Is this guy’s place off the Hume highway?

  86. Jason Soon

    I’ll bring some Protestant spirits to this BBQ, Homer. Will Johnny Calvin do? Some Scotch Enlightenment? Is this guy’s place off the Hume highway?

  87. Homer Paxton

    You bring the beer keynes but you are a smart kalecki then I will go blayney.
    it is a Kaldor climate but it is harrod although I hope i am ron on that.
    too many country hicks there though.
    This is now getting Solow that I am a man from uncle.

  88. Homer Paxton

    You bring the beer keynes but you are a smart kalecki then I will go blayney.
    it is a Kaldor climate but it is harrod although I hope i am ron on that.
    too many country hicks there though.
    This is now getting Solow that I am a man from uncle.

  89. Fyodor

    This is driving me berkeley. If we weren’t so close to a Popper, I’d locke you hobbesgoblins in the voltaire.

  90. Fyodor

    This is driving me berkeley. If we weren’t so close to a Popper, I’d locke you hobbesgoblins in the voltaire.

  91. Homer Paxton

    I’m hobswawn out by this.
    I need to see Samuel’s son or is it robin’s son. sorry but I can’t kant now.
    I might waytch the harcourt championships.
    I might dring some krug man.If I got a Gal she would take my braith away.
    you know what I’m tolkien about

  92. Homer Paxton

    I’m hobswawn out by this.
    I need to see Samuel’s son or is it robin’s son. sorry but I can’t kant now.
    I might waytch the harcourt championships.
    I might dring some krug man.If I got a Gal she would take my braith away.
    you know what I’m tolkien about

  93. Jason Soon

    Homer,
    You can be such a Burke

  94. Jason Soon

    Homer,
    You can be such a Burke

  95. Homer Paxton

    no I have a Wills or is that a HG Wells!
    I am off on a planet.
    May the Wilberforce be with you as long as you keep your plimsoll line up.
    And that is written in gladstone so don’t peel it with your wellington boots when you go to the waterloo which is at the blucher of the house.
    Ney get a marshall battery which has a nice patton on it.

  96. Homer Paxton

    no I have a Wills or is that a HG Wells!
    I am off on a planet.
    May the Wilberforce be with you as long as you keep your plimsoll line up.
    And that is written in gladstone so don’t peel it with your wellington boots when you go to the waterloo which is at the blucher of the house.
    Ney get a marshall battery which has a nice patton on it.

  97. Mark

    I don’t believe there’s been a Popper pun yet.

  98. Mark

    I don’t believe there’s been a Popper pun yet.

  99. Kim

    Wrong, Mark, Fyodor punned on POPPER! POPPER!

  100. Kim

    Wrong, Mark, Fyodor punned on POPPER! POPPER!

  101. Kim

    Like. Whatever. :)

  102. Kim

    Like. Whatever. :)

  103. Fyodor

    Whatever Wilberforce, Wilberforce. Che sera, sera.

    Words to live by.

    [Group hug]

  104. Fyodor

    Whatever Wilberforce, Wilberforce. Che sera, sera.

    Words to live by.

    [Group hug]

  105. Homer Paxton

    By Jevons you people are looking for a pigou in a poke.
    Was that a Walras I saw sorry wrong equation it was a bit differential than I though.

  106. Homer Paxton

    By Jevons you people are looking for a pigou in a poke.
    Was that a Walras I saw sorry wrong equation it was a bit differential than I though.

  107. Fyodor

    Adorno where this thread is going, Homer, but I kant deny we?Äôve yet to plato. I believe it was Lenin who said “I am a Walras”.

  108. Fyodor

    Adorno where this thread is going, Homer, but I kant deny we?Äôve yet to plato. I believe it was Lenin who said “I am a Walras”.

  109. Jason Soon

    Fyodor,
    Your Mises said to take a Hayek, you’ve had your chance!
    Popper goes the Wiesel! (sorry, only hard-core Austrians might get the last reference)

  110. Jason Soon

    Fyodor,
    Your Mises said to take a Hayek, you’ve had your chance!
    Popper goes the Wiesel! (sorry, only hard-core Austrians might get the last reference)

  111. Fyodor

    Some might call you a Nietzsche-picker, Jason, but I Keynes Say that you Arndt. You’re just Epicurious, and straight as an Arrow.

  112. Fyodor

    Some might call you a Nietzsche-picker, Jason, but I Keynes Say that you Arndt. You’re just Epicurious, and straight as an Arrow.

  113. Homer Paxton

    I haven’t a voegelin what your talking about.
    I might hlloer for a Marshall. but I am eatinga duesenberry. Ah what limits to growth I am veblening.Certainly hobson’s choice but I am frisch out of ideas and I am going on holidays so I say you are a bunch of kuznets .I was halvin a tinbergen of beer Kondratieff it.I gunnar myrdal you people

  114. Homer Paxton

    I haven’t a voegelin what your talking about.
    I might hlloer for a Marshall. but I am eatinga duesenberry. Ah what limits to growth I am veblening.Certainly hobson’s choice but I am frisch out of ideas and I am going on holidays so I say you are a bunch of kuznets .I was halvin a tinbergen of beer Kondratieff it.I gunnar myrdal you people

  115. Mark

    How long, Lord, how long?

  116. Mark

    How long, Lord, how long?

  117. Fyodor

    Arendt you putting Descartes before the Harsanyi? I might have the wrong Engle on this, but I would Averroes that I?Äôm too Lao Zi to change the Plotinus.

  118. Fyodor

    Arendt you putting Descartes before the Harsanyi? I might have the wrong Engle on this, but I would Averroes that I?Äôm too Lao Zi to change the Plotinus.

  119. Mark

    As Hunter S. Thompson once asked!

  120. Mark

    As Hunter S. Thompson once asked!

  121. Mark

    Though I think Fyodor is way ahead of Homer…

  122. Mark

    Though I think Fyodor is way ahead of Homer…

  123. Fyodor

    Popper don’t preach.

  124. Fyodor

    Popper don’t preach.

  125. Jason Soon

    Do not be so Cavalier in your assessments, you Roundhead.

  126. Jason Soon

    Do not be so Cavalier in your assessments, you Roundhead.

  127. Jason Soon

    “How long, Lord, how long? ”

    That reminds me of the Kodak anthem ‘Someday my prints will come’

  128. Jason Soon

    “How long, Lord, how long? ”

    That reminds me of the Kodak anthem ‘Someday my prints will come’

  129. Mark

    A Freudian illusion – threads “terminable and interminable” – hint, hint!

  130. Mark

    A Freudian illusion – threads “terminable and interminable” – hint, hint!

  131. Fyodor

    Actually, Jason, a long, long time ago – I can still remember, how Troppo used to make me smile – you declared yourself to be a roundhead, whereas I outed myself as a cavalier [albeit of the whiggish faction].

    Vive l’Emmerdeur!

  132. Fyodor

    Actually, Jason, a long, long time ago – I can still remember, how Troppo used to make me smile – you declared yourself to be a roundhead, whereas I outed myself as a cavalier [albeit of the whiggish faction].

    Vive l’Emmerdeur!

  133. Jason Soon

    Fyodor
    Yer Fuller it. When will Mark Bahnisch yer for talking Lakatosser? Imre
    gretting joining this. Kuhn you start making sense?
    Homer, you’re a rich man
    Can you paradigm?

  134. Jason Soon

    Fyodor
    Yer Fuller it. When will Mark Bahnisch yer for talking Lakatosser? Imre
    gretting joining this. Kuhn you start making sense?
    Homer, you’re a rich man
    Can you paradigm?

  135. Homer Paxton

    You are writing Allman the time so I should make the dicky betts of the time.
    I am no fan of elvin bishops especially if the is a mass on a bloomfield but I like butterfield when travelling on the Grand Funk Railroad.
    Lowell george of love as I eat my dixie chicken from both sides now but there is miles of Isles to go.

  136. Homer Paxton

    You are writing Allman the time so I should make the dicky betts of the time.
    I am no fan of elvin bishops especially if the is a mass on a bloomfield but I like butterfield when travelling on the Grand Funk Railroad.
    Lowell george of love as I eat my dixie chicken from both sides now but there is miles of Isles to go.

  137. Kim

    Fyodor was funniest, with Jason a close second.

    That’s the verdict from the Vatican.

  138. Kim

    Fyodor was funniest, with Jason a close second.

    That’s the verdict from the Vatican.

  139. Fyodor

    That would explain the puff of white smoke…

    Now, m’lady, a prize?

  140. Fyodor

    That would explain the puff of white smoke…

    Now, m’lady, a prize?

  141. Kim

    Benedicte te, my son! I might email you a prize later too…

  142. Kim

    Benedicte te, my son! I might email you a prize later too…

  143. rex bellatore

    Godel your room, the lot of you!

  144. rex bellatore

    Godel your room, the lot of you!

  145. Homer Paxton

    I am having a Lowell of fun here.
    In fact it is poetry in motion.Before I am donne I will have to T.S elliot Jason soon however.

  146. Homer Paxton

    I am having a Lowell of fun here.
    In fact it is poetry in motion.Before I am donne I will have to T.S elliot Jason soon however.

  147. Jason Soon

    Homer,
    Have you read that new economic study of alcoholism, ‘The economic consequences of the piss?’

  148. Jason Soon

    Homer,
    Have you read that new economic study of alcoholism, ‘The economic consequences of the piss?’

  149. Homer Paxton

    was that the one that was 10% proof

  150. Homer Paxton

    was that the one that was 10% proof

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