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Ha!, Oh wouldn't I just love to be a bookie, they are like landlords at closing time "We have your dough, now you can go."
I haven't looked at the list of runners, although I'd imagine the Irish runner is a big outsider, considering even St, Patrick couldn't make it to the throne, so where does that leave Cardinal Brady, might risk a fiver each way @100/1, we haven't got good form over this track, the smart money would be on an Italian I would imagine.

Gambling on papal elections has at least a 500-year history. Betting on 16th-century papal conclaves are among the first documented examples of gambling on election outcomes.[1] During the same period, gambling was also common on the outcomes of secular Italian elections, such as that of the Doge of Venice.[2]
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12-03-2013, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Jem ->
Gambling on papal elections has at least a 500-year history. Betting on 16th-century papal conclaves are among the first documented examples of gambling on election outcomes.
Gambling: one more notable influence of religion.
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12-03-2013, 08:42 PM
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Rumour has it a 33/1 outsider has entered the race?
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12-03-2013, 09:32 PM
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Ha!, Oh wouldn't I just love to be a bookie, they are like landlords at closing time "We have your dough, now you can go."
I haven't looked at the list of runners, although I'd imagine the Irish runner is a big outsider, considering even St, Patrick couldn't make it to the throne, so where does that leave Cardinal Brady, might risk a fiver each way @100/1, we haven't got good form over this track, the smart money would be on an Italian I would imagine.

Gambling on papal elections has at least a 500-year history. Betting on 16th-century papal conclaves are among the first documented examples of gambling on election outcomes.[1] During the same period, gambling was also common on the outcomes of secular Italian elections, such as that of the Doge of Venice.[2]
Jem. Running a book on God's right hand man. You will burn in hell.
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Anyone else heard that the papal conclave is triggering more doomsday theories based on St. Malachy and Nostradamus?
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Doomed I tell yea, we're all doomed
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So now there is a Frankie instead of a Benny! The appointment of Pope Francis I (Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio) from Argentina doesn't seem too popular as he is old, 76, a traditionalist, and a Jesuit. I doubt he is going to reform the whole corrupt edifice!
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13-03-2013, 08:51 PM
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So now there is a Frankie instead of a Benny! The appointment of Pope Francis I (Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio) from Argentina doesn't seem too popular as he is old, 76, a traditionalist, and a Jesuit. I doubt he is going to reform the whole corrupt edifice!
I think you may well be wrong.
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13-03-2013, 09:37 PM
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Perhaps we should give the new appointee a chance.

It will not be easy presiding over 1.2 Billion Catholics.
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I think you may well be wrong.
Won't make a scrap of difference to me whether he does or doesn't since I'm an Atheist and have long ago rejected all religion. As Karl Marx said: "Religion is the opiate of the masses" and I refuse to be drugged by it!!!
 
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