9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for October 24, 2015
Transcript:
Woman: so, if your junior high school janitor dressed as the pope, did you address him as "your holiness"? man: no, we called him mr. carl. man: Some people said he was a retired spot welder gripping tenaciously to a delusion that he was the pope: then there was a counterclaim, widely endorsed in the local barber shops, that he was the pope masquerading unconvincingly as mr. carl. indeed, when we spoke to him, he always blessed us in a most persuasive pontifical manner. woman: really? Man: Although I never thought he was quite right doing it with one finger.