Unnoticed sense of "Pope"

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:56 PM -0400 9/24/07, Erik Hoover wrote:
>Un-noticed but not un-noted:
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>"I've heard flogging your bishop, and flogging your dog, but never
>doggin.
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>Also:  put a helmet on the soldier, polish the pope, get the German
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>soldier  marching."
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>[Bill Mullins on ADS-L, 11 Dec 2004]
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Demonstrating the need to enunciate "Is the Pope Polish?" carefully.

LH

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