The 83-year-old pontiff seemed to approve, waving his hand after each dancer completed a move, then applauding for the entire group. He watched the performance Sunday from a raised throne.
"For this creative hard work I bless you from my heart," he said.
There is alegedly video of this at CNN, but you have to give them a credit card number to see it! WTF? What's the "cypherpunks/cypherpunks" CC number?
Update, Feb 5: alekb found RealVideo of this on some TV station site. It's small and grainy. It kind of reminds me of NASA moon-landing footage.
or genital/genital cc number :)
I don't buy that story at all.
my take on it from those pix: Altar Boy tryouts.
THE POPE GOT SERVED!
(hope there's enough cross-over with calamityjon's LJ for this to be as funny as I thoght it was...)
no, but there is enough cross over with television commercials for people to understand.
If the Pontiff says "you been served," you gotta go, man. It's all about respect, yo.
Cool, two of the most pointless things on Earth; Organized Religion and Break Dancing.
Well, that's the end of that... they're all getting tossed into the reliquary now.
Last nights "Daily Show with John Stewart" had the footage for free ;)
tivo / bittorrent /etc
Do you think he's breakin' to catholic church music?
wait a sec...
didn't Psychic TV write a song a ways back about this very concept? well, not so much about it, but titled after it - i.e. that single, "Papal Breakdance"
http://www.wftv.com/news/2792793/detail.html
does anybody else think of a jester dancing for a king?
"My son. Is it not easier just to kiss the tarmac ?"