For the first time in nearly 600 years, a reigning pope has resigned.
And in what might also be a landmark event, Twitter was not flooded
with jokes or parody accounts when the announcement was made two weeks
ago.
On February 11 @davewiner tweeted, "Perfect storm for Pope jokes. Since he's not dead no one can complain 'You're being insensitive.'"
But in the days that
followed, not much surfaced. It was so odd that tweets like this were
more common: "Did I miss the memo about no Pope jokes?" tweeted @NouveauBroke.
Although a parody account, @RetiredPopeXVI, did appear, it only has 577 followers and sent out a paltry five tweets.
That all changed on
Thursday when Pope Benedict XVI slipped off his red loafers and
officially became pope emeritus. Curiously, the Vatican also deleted all
39 of his tweets from the official @pontifex Twitter account. (They are
archived here.)
And slowly, the jokes began to surface. Here are a handful we found humorous.
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