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   Estrelita Phillips said, 5 months ago

   Love it – Bishop Bushmiller! How totally appropriate. That almost looks like San Juan Capistrano in the background.
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   CaptBullock said, 5 months ago

   I suppose he’s related to the owner of Bushmiller’s Power Equipment (where wooly bears go to buy snowblowers).
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   Dave Hussell said, 5 months ago

   Ok, I was wondering yesterday, but it looks like we are turning around again. I like the change!
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   JezzVimSr said, 5 months ago

   Waiting…………………………….
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   maedar said, 5 months ago

   You can’t lie to a priest. They can always tell. At least an honest one can.
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 5 months ago

   @Guy:
   Have you ever given thought of merchandising?
   I’ll wager the Aunt Fritzi doll would just fly off the shelves!!!
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   ja t said, 5 months ago

   @Susan;

   Only if they are true to form…
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   Uncle Kaz said, 5 months ago

   Out of complete ignorance I ask this question… does one refer to a Protestant bishop as “Your Eminence”? I know the RC’s do, but if Bishop Bushmiller is RC, where is the Roman collar?
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   Joan Alos said, 5 months ago

   Collar is a choice for a Roman Catholic priest. Even bishops are not supposed to wear it all the time (at least, in Europe).

   By the way, of course you CAN lie to a RC bishop. If you “confess” your lie later (even to the same bishop), you get forgiveness for you sin. That’s a good deal, isn’t it?
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    Rickles said, 5 months ago

    Two days in a row with no Nancy, Aunt Fritzi nor Sluggo – this has got to be some record.
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    Wolf Emperor said, 5 months ago

    @Uncle Kaz

    Don’t ask me… I’m Baptist; we have no hierarchy.
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    Uncle Kaz said, 5 months ago

    I was mostly curious about the title, but as far as the collar is concerned, is it an option when he is in “full uniform” like Bishop Bushmiller? That’s why I guessed that Guy drew him that way… hence the question about the title.
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    Tomas Texino said, 5 months ago

    If Phil marries, the strip will end.
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    John W Kennedy said, 5 months ago

    The words actually used in the strip are “Bishop” and “Excellency”; together, we can deduce that the Most Reverend Bishop Bushmiller is an RC bishop (or conceivably Old Catholic, who broke away, mostly about a century and a half ago, mostly because they couldn’t accept Papal Infallibility; or else one of the recent sects that hate the Vatican II reforms so much that they have broken away to start their own churches, with their own “popes”—but I think we can rule out both of those possibilities). Any other sort of bishop isn’t addressed as “Your Excellency”, and any other sort of “Excellency” isn’t addressed as “Bishop”.
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    Dave Hussell said, 5 months ago

    @SUSAN NEWMAN

    How about an inflatable Fritzi doll? Ohh, I did NOT just say that!
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