Ratzi Bad Metaphor Alert (First of Many Edition)

Nick Gillespie | April 20, 2005

Via Sploid comes a story in which an Oklahoma priest enthuses thusly about the new pope:

"He's going to have a German mentality of leadership: Either get on the train or get off the track."

Whole thing here.

Maybe it's just me, but the German/train stuff seems a bit off...

Comments

|4.20.05 @ 6:55PM|#

Yeah, it was Mussolini who kept the trains on schedule. They shoulda voted for a wop.

|10.28.09 @ 6:35PM|#

IDIOT,WHY WAP..........AH AH AH !!!!!!!!!!!GEEZER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

|4.20.05 @ 7:01PM|#

I'd say WAY off. I'm surprised the ADL isn't all over this one.

|4.20.05 @ 7:14PM|#

I hope they let it slide...it was boneheaded, not mean-spirited.

fyodor|4.20.05 @ 7:26PM|#

It could have been worse. How about: "Get on the train or BANG, a bullet in your head!"

Just kidding.

|4.20.05 @ 7:35PM|#

"It could have been worse. How about: 'Get on the train or BANG, a bullet in your head!'"

Or... Get on the train AND get a free shower.

Mutti, I smell peaches.

|4.20.05 @ 8:04PM|#

I hope this pope doesn't get stuck with the nickname of "Boxcar Benny."

|4.20.05 @ 8:10PM|#

I think the good father got his wires twisted and was actually thinking of this accident in Indonesia...

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=2989486

|4.20.05 @ 9:31PM|#

How about "Get on der train or vee have vays of making you valk"?

Franklin Harris|4.20.05 @ 11:51PM|#

Here's to hoping the new pope doesn't tell randy priests to go take cold showers, then.

|4.21.05 @ 12:47AM|#

The heil you say!

|4.21.05 @ 12:55AM|#

Yeah, it was Mussolini who kept the trains on schedule

Italian train engineers still apologize when the trains are late. I was just there 3 weeks ago, and at every other stop they'd say "we baig'a you pah'don, thee tren eeza two meenots a'late a." Scary. The Metro drivers in DC don't give a rats ass if they're two HOURS late.

His grand daughter is a hot piece of ass though. I'd vote for her.

|4.21.05 @ 3:29AM|#

According to Jon Stewart, the scandal with Ratzinger isn't that he was in the Hitler Youth. It's that he might have been in it for the youths.

The Bastard|4.21.05 @ 4:40AM|#

There is something inherently wrong with a German saying "get on the train"

|10.28.09 @ 6:55PM|#

IDIOT!!!!!!!

drf|4.21.05 @ 10:28AM|#

vat is zee problem? he iz a funny guy. what a gas.

"hi i'm the pope. my turn ons are people who use coasters. my activities are camping. i like to concentrate"..

what what what!!!!!!!

|10.28.09 @ 6:56PM|#

ANOTHER IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!

|4.21.05 @ 10:34AM|#

"We do the concentrating, and the Poles do the camping."

|10.28.09 @ 6:54PM|#

YOUR SO RUDE

drf|4.21.05 @ 10:50AM|#

Henry: LOL!

"Erhardt! Erhardt! Aren't yoo zee one who made a joke about my becoming a pickle???"

|4.21.05 @ 2:28PM|#

[Mussolini's] granddaughter is a hot piece of ass though.

Yes, even hotter than Cynthia Hitler.

|10.28.09 @ 6:37PM|#

BOLLOCKS I'M A YID

|10.28.09 @ 6:37PM|#

BOLLOCKS I'M A YID

|10.28.09 @ 6:37PM|#

BOLLOCKS I'M A YID

|10.28.09 @ 7:00PM|#

SPELLING MISTAKE,I MEAN WOP