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The pope's headgear looks like something you'd win at Coney Island and it is suggested that it be hung on top of the Empire State Building [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 28].
During Vatican III, an American bishop donated a matched pair of ICBM (Intercontinental ballistic missiles) [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 89-90]. "They are the perfect squelch to Stalin's crack about how many divisions the Pope has."
The triple crown of the popes, known as a tiara, dates from the 14th century. However Myers passes along a "highly personal and irrelevant observation" that "the Pope's tiara looks more like the top of the Chrysler Building than the Empire State Building."
When an advisor warned him against conflict with the Catholic Church and Pius XII, Josef Stalin contemptuously demanded, "How many divisions does the pope have?" It was a rhetorical question and it presumed the obvious: with no army at all, what threat could the pope pose to Soviet tyranny?
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