As you MAY have heard this morning in between practicing Prince's cane walk, Pope Benedict XVI unexpectedly resigned from his post this morning. Shocking news-y news, I know. But since insightful commentary on this sort of world event isn't exactly my thang (although there's a Ewan McGregor's helicopter joke in there somewhere), here are twenty of the best early morning tweets I've seen on the subject. In chronological order, of course. Because what's the point of Twitter if we don't identify who was cleverest first?
Enjoy. And someone make me become friends with Simon Pegg ASAP.
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Franky Boyle was hilarious. ahahahaha and that Pope Lion won too.
If the new Pope is named Peter and from Rome it is safe to assume the Catholic Church has a greater understanding of the “Art of Trolling”.
Should have quit after the first 2 slides.
Frankie Boyle is hilarious. Man that guy hits hard.
Vote for least sensical tweet to Colin Quinn by a country mile: misspells ‘Church,” tries to hashtag a website, says random incendiary thing about Italian people. In retaliation, Benedict should appear on Tough Crowd.
I’m being told that Tough Crowd isn’t a show anymore. Oh well.
I don’t think Colin was trying to be funny, just the Irish Catholics are big supporters of the church but rarely recognized.
This is what happens when you flame the Pope on Twitter. Good job, internet.
Honestly, I expected more references about how he looked like Emperor Palpatine. That’s what I went with.
Missed @CMPunk: “The Pope resigned? I did nazi that coming!”
Why aren’t Bobby Big Wheel and Big Daddy Drew verified yet? Really?