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Anunnaki · 07-10-2002, 02:45 PM

A few internet sites seem to have the Popes panties in a bunch,but <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/10/1026185056490.html" target="_blank">this story</a> doesn`t say exactly what was on these sites. I don`t know what these unrepeatable words and Blasphemous logos are,but I must have one of those T-shirts!

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Vatican City: Five internet sites carrying blasphemies against God and the Virgin Mary have been shut in Italy after a complaint by the Vatican newspaper l'Osservatore Romano, the paper said today.

A special police unit "took over an internet site due to the blasphemous nature of unrepeatable words which accompanied the name of the Madonna," the paper said, adding that four similar sites had also been closed.

The police blacked out pages on the site so that internet surfers who try to visit them find nothing but the words "Site seized by the Head of Rome's Special Police Force on the orders of Rome's Chief Prosecutor".

Police also discovered a commercial network which sells t-shirts carrying the same blasphemous logos as the internet sites.

Perchance · 07-10-2002, 05:23 PM

I've seen mottoes like "The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother," at least here in the United States. Possibly the "unrepeatable words" wouldn't have to be swear words at all, just something that would deeply offend many devout Catholics.

-Perchance,
(who has to admit that she, too, would like to know just what the words were

).

Starspun · 07-10-2002, 05:33 PM

The holy gestapo?

Fruity bastages.

nerv111 · 07-10-2002, 05:52 PM

I now all of a sudden have this urge to go down to Vatican City wearing one of these shirts� that would be so much fun.

DarkBronzePlant · 07-12-2002, 11:44 AM

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Originally posted by nerv111:
I now all of a sudden have this urge to go down to Vatican City wearing one of these shirts� that would be so much fun.

I got kicked out of there just for wearing shorts.

Christopher Lord · 07-12-2002, 12:54 PM

According to the article I read about this the site's name was 'Pig Madonna' (translated)

So to find the site, we just need to know the italian translation of pig (Porc?) and google it up... In theory.

[ July 12, 2002: Message edited by: Christopher Lord ]

DarkBronzePlant · 07-12-2002, 01:24 PM

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Originally posted by Christopher Lord:
According to the article I read about this the site's name was 'Pig Madonna' (translated)

So to find the site, we just need to know the italian translation of pig (Porc?) and google it up... In theory.

[ July 12, 2002: Message edited by: Christopher Lord ]

The sites have all supposedly been seized by the Italian authorities. How exactly a website is "seized", I'm not sure, but that's what I'd heard.

Splat · 07-12-2002, 07:03 PM

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Originally posted by Perchance:
Possibly the "unrepeatable words" wouldn't have to be swear words at all, just something that would deeply offend many devout Catholics.

Or maybe they're words that evaporate or blow up or something right after they're used the first time. I'd like to have some of those words myself, but how?

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Christopher Lord Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Toronto Posts: 808	According to the article I read about this the site's name was 'Pig Madonna' (translated) So to find the site, we just need to know the italian translation of pig (Porc?) and google it up... In theory. [ July 12, 2002: Message edited by: Christopher Lord ]</p>

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07-10-2002, 05:23 PM	#2
Perchance Veteran Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 1,059	I've seen mottoes like "The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother," at least here in the United States. Possibly the "unrepeatable words" wouldn't have to be swear words at all, just something that would deeply offend many devout Catholics. -Perchance, (who has to admit that she, too, would like to know just what the words were ).

07-10-2002, 05:33 PM	#3
Starspun Regular Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 334	The holy gestapo? Fruity bastages.

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nerv111 Regular Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 421	I now all of a sudden have this urge to go down to Vatican City wearing one of these shirts� that would be so much fun.

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