One morning the Pope awoke in his bedchamber in the Vatican. To his surprise, he noticed that he had woken up with a massive erection. Perplexed, he called on his personal physician.

"Doctor, this should not be possible," he said, "I'm the Pope, and I'm celibate! I haven't had one of these for 50 years!"

The doctor's reply was, "Well, father, this is a natural phenomenon for all men, and it will happen even to you from time to time". The Pope exclaimed "But you must do something about this! I have mass in an hour, and this thing isn't going away!"

The doctor replied "You have two options, either I can administer an injection to your peniss to make the problem go away, which will hurt and make you feel ill, or you can just quietly go into the toilet over there and relieve yourself."

Fearing the injection, the Pope elects the second option. Unbeknownst to him, a paparazzi photographer has sneaked into the Vatican, and just as the Pope reaches that point of no return, up pops the photographer and begins snapping away.

The Pope immediately summons his security guards, who arrest the photographer, and begin to beat him up. The paparazzo shouts out, "Hey, I thought you were a Christian organization! What has happened to your forgiveness?"

Upon reflection, the pope agrees with the photographer, and relents, saying "Yes, my son, you are right, we shall release you. Unfortunately, we cannot return your camera, as we cannot allow the scandal of what is contained on the film to be seen in the outside world."

The photographer replies, "But this is how I make my living! If you take my camera, I'll lose the money I could have sold the photographs for!"

The Pope, feeling guilty, agrees. "Very well, we will compensate you. How about $100,000?"

Ecstatic, the man agrees, and is soon on his way. The Pope, meanwhile attends confession, and the whole story comes out. For his penance, he is therefore ordered to walk three times around St. Peter's, with the offending camera around his neck.

Out on his walk, he meets a Japanese tourist:

"Very nice Japanese camera you got there, Mr. Pope," says the man, "how much you pay for it?"

"Being the Pope, I cannot tell a lie," he replies, "I must confess that I paid $100,000 for it."

"Ah," says the Japanese gentleman, "look like someone saw you coming!"

Think I should be able to forgive myself for the time I spent in reading this hell of nonsense.

Reading this is worse than reading a project management textbook.

i am disappointed!

i hope the poster never thought this was funny.

Only the highly intelligent would get the gist of the joke, that is anchored in the last line.

"Looks like someone saw you coming" is an idomatic expression which simply means that "You were cheated" (for paying $100 for a camera).

But the phrase was mistaken by the Pope to mean that he was seen ("coming": ejaculating in his toilet.

Pogistega:

Only the highly intelligent would get the gist of the joke, that is anchored in the last line.

"Looks like someone saw you coming" is an idomatic expression which simply means that "You were cheated" (for paying $100 for a camera).

But the phrase was mistaken by the Pope to mean that he was seen ("coming": ejecting in his toilet.

the joke never showed that the pope mistook the idiom.at best it is meant to confuse the reader and totally destroy the punch line

Understood it's meaning alright, but it wasn't funny, why? because the joke was too long

stu.pid thread

Readers who are daft and dense, should not bother reading my posts.

Instead of studio, sting, etc, exposing themselves as myopic, it would have been better they remained silent.

They only end up drawing contempt for themselves.

u shouldn't have used "the pope" man! and 4 dat, i therefore sentence u to 2yrs off nairaland forum. ar-ar! pray dat i don't catch u here again.

either wayz the write up (not joke) is dry n boring