You are also unlikely to get the female vote. At least, many of those that I know.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Cast your chocolate upon the altar and it shall be returned to you manyfold


<or at least the little silver wrapping paper will be. Some gods have no repect for their believers.>!

<at the serving on the mount the MsMessiah fed the multitude with all they needed from 5 blocks and two Freddo frogs>

Voting? VOTING?
This is a religion, not a bloody democracy!

<Showers chocolate coins on Bunyip>
Ever thought about being a prophet?

I see little money in it. :P

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Prophet, not profit.

Although, if you know anyone capable of managing an income the size of the vatican's...

What is the conversion rates between the lire and the 250gram block of 'Dairy Milk' at present?

How many 'Freddo frogs' is the Sistine Chapel's tourist income worth?

What is the premium on 'Old Gold/Jamaica' when releasing the copies of the banned books as listed in the Codex?

Give me clue and I'll turn on my cost accountant's brain and give you an approximate answer. I studied astronomy and nuclear physics for a while and the numbers involved are pretty similar to the Vatican's accounts, and what with quantum, about as steady and predictable. I volunteer should you be proclaimed.

If the Italian lire still existed, probably about 25 000 000 to 1.

(Turkish lira about 2.5 per 250g bar)

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

I once heard that the official Vatican state budget is mainly comprised of income from the sales of stamps and Euro coins with the face of the pope on it. Entrance fees to the Vatican museums apparently are a lot less.

Being a good little moral person and not suggesting that a religion would ever do anything underhanded and hide their sources of income from the faithful I would work on the off balance sheet items such as the company that owned Watergate (Washington- not London) in the time of RMNixon.

It is interesting that you kiss the ring of the pope to get a miracle performed, but you have to lick his backside to get a letter delivered.

A lot less? We got into the vatican for free... The only tricky bit was finding our way out again. Very strange- It looks small, but when you get in there, you discover there's this whole TARDIS thing going on.

Except in the Sistine Chapel, which surprised me by being so tiny.

Ah. I thought the Sistine chapel could only be entered as part of the museum. But then, I only got that from the tales my father told about his visit in 1962...

No, that's true. We went through the museum, then we looked at the rest of the stuff and hassled those lads with gorgeous legs but poor taste in clothing (swiss guard) for photos with the kids who were on the tour.
They were very nice and obliged. And quite frankly, spoiled the kids rotten.

I went to the Telecom museum in Kuala Lumpur and I was the only person in there. A couple of ladies guarding the door almost jumped out of their skins when they saw me so, as far as I know, I'm the only person EVER to go to it.

They were quite perplexed when I asked them if I could go in and wanted to know why. "To have a look," I said. So they consulted with a superior and I was begrudged an entry. They were as nice as pie and even chatty an hour later when I emerged. They seemed to have sorted out in their minds, somehow, that this was a "visitor" and that this was, in fact, what "visitors" sometimes do - they "visit".

As a matter of fact, I didn't really want to go there at all. I got a taxi and asked for the Numismatic Museum. After several queries from the driver about just what it was and where (I even showed him a map), he dropped me across the road from a building and said, jabbing with his finger, "Museum. There."

And, as I've described, so it was. I'm lucky it was actually a museum of some sort I suppose. You don't necessarily ever get what you want in Malaysia, you get what Malaysia wants to give you.

Was it at least worth your time?

Kitten: I can not help feeling that the Swiss Guard were not one of Michaelangelo's triumphs....

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Yes, but given his complicated relationship with the church, I don't think it was meant to be!