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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I voted in the gubernatorial election. Maria Shriver should have been on the ballot!
The quote works a treat if you read it with a thick Austrian accent.
I see what you mean, Gerry!
Kim
I hope you voted for Arnie! (who incidentally is also a Milton Friedman afficionado)
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…
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)
Who says I voted for Clinton? I’m not telling!
I voted for Kerry last year though.
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?)
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!).
I didn’t vote for the (ex-)Pope.
Are you supporting the Kim for Pope Joan II campaign? Get in while the bandwagon’s still rolling!
No, I want a Maori Pope.
Arnie would respect that!
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”.
David, Popes cannot be maorried!
christ almighty, that is the worst pun homer has ever made.
correction, i spoke too quickly – it isn’t even a pun!
That’s a big call, Jason. He’s delivered some absolute shockers.
Does he have the Lah de Dahs album to pooped to pope!
Exhibit #3184. The defence rests.
If that is your confession you haven’t a prayer.
You are going to Pell!
Fyodor and Jason, you’re only encouraging Homer, I fear!
As Luther said to the cow ‘Here I stand, I can do no udder’. (if you can’t beat them, join them)
Mark, Homer’s on his own personal Odyssey.
I’m now thinking of Homer lying in the sand begging the Gods not to send him to Hades!
Nah, his future’s so bright he can wear hades.
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!
Is it too late tosay thae last pope was ples apart from fis predecessors.
Anyone who says differently is Krackows!
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!
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!
Homer
That was a-Paul-ing! You make baby jesus cry.
Catholic, Protestant – a Paxt On both your houses!
Jesus wept!
Back to the original topic of this post, Arnie’s words are Testament that the Pope was no emasculated conceptor!
No (papal) bull!
Jesus, Mary & Joseph!
Jason – you should check out the Nietzschean stuff at the end of the Cold War thread…
Ecce Homer.
fyodor
i take a bow to you, and so should homer …
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.
Homer: no retreat, no surrenderrida.
Paxton is a true PUNdit and has HOMEd in on the essence of the issue, but I am Poped from all this effort.
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.
Hei digger -
Arendt we taking this too far?
(rawls on the floor laughing)
Foucauld if I know. Without hegelers, how do you know weber you’re hitting your marx?
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!
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?
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.
This is driving me berkeley. If we weren’t so close to a Popper, I’d locke you hobbesgoblins in the voltaire.
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
Homer,
You can be such a Burke
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.
I don’t believe there’s been a Popper pun yet.
Wrong, Mark, Fyodor punned on POPPER! POPPER!
Like. Whatever.
Whatever Wilberforce, Wilberforce. Che sera, sera.
Words to live by.
[Group hug]
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.
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”.
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)
Some might call you a Nietzsche-picker, Jason, but I Keynes Say that you Arndt. You’re just Epicurious, and straight as an Arrow.
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
How long, Lord, how long?
Arendt you putting Descartes before the Harsanyi? I might have the wrong Engle on this, but I would Averroes that I’m too Lao Zi to change the Plotinus.
As Hunter S. Thompson once asked!
Though I think Fyodor is way ahead of Homer…
Popper don’t preach.
Do not be so Cavalier in your assessments, you Roundhead.
“How long, Lord, how long? ”
That reminds me of the Kodak anthem ‘Someday my prints will come’
A Freudian illusion – threads “terminable and interminable” – hint, hint!
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!
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?
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.
Fyodor was funniest, with Jason a close second.
That’s the verdict from the Vatican.
That would explain the puff of white smoke…
Now, m’lady, a prize?
Benedicte te, my son! I might email you a prize later too…
Godel your room, the lot of you!
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.
Homer,
Have you read that new economic study of alcoholism, ‘The economic consequences of the piss?’
was that the one that was 10% proof