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Year 1981
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament.
4. Pope Died
Year 2005
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament
4. Pope Died
In the future, if Prince Charles decides to remarry ... please warn the Pope.
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Too funny! Maybe you should email the vatican with this critical warning of way to tell world events. I am sure this is not the way Prince Charles wants to be remembered. 
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Am I missing something? What pope died in 1981? Pope John Paul I died in 1978, and was replaced by Pope John Paul II that very year. http://www.johnpaul1.com/ --tim
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Hmmph, killjoys  ! ... you're undoubtedly right, but it showed up in my mailbox this morning and made me laugh, so I thought I'd post it. I'll try to remember to have my legal team "vet" all jokes coming from my desk in the future! 
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By the way, it's true no Pope DIED in 1981, but wasn't that the year of the assassination attempt?
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Dear Dolly,
So both the popes in question AND Australia went "down under . . ."
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Originally posted by Theist Gal:
By the way, it's true no Pope DIED in 1981, but wasn't that the year of the assassination attempt? Yeah, but as you note, he didn't die. That sorta wrecks the joke. --tim
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I can see three possible ways to solve this problem: Originally posted by Theist Gal:
Year 1981
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament.
4. Pope Died
Year 2005
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament
4. Pope Died
In the future, if Prince Charles decides to remarry ... please warn the Pope. 1 ...... Round up the royal Family and lock them in cells, WITHOUT conjugal visits. :p 2 ...... Bulldoze Liverpool or otherwise dispose of it. :p 3 ...... Turn Australia to ashes as soon as possible. :p We must make haste, before the Pope is harmed.
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Now see - that's what I call constructive thinking! But you didn't mention the other alternative - allow the Pope to be married. That would throw EVERYTHING off balance!
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Well, instead of a rebellion against the Monarch, we could have a rebellion against the Pope.  Then we could have Bonnie Prince Charlie :p elected as the new Pope (aka "Pops"), reuniting the Anglicans with the Romans. :p Ecumenists of the world, arise. The way has become clear! ??????? Originally posted by Theist Gal: Now see - that's what I call constructive thinking!
But you didn't mention the other alternative - allow the Pope to be married. That would throw EVERYTHING off balance! Don't mind us, we're unbalanced already.
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Neve mind all this Australia was robbed of the ashes by the Poms (England team). How anyone else could put all this other stuff in front of God's own game Cricket I do not know!!! I have it on good authority a Ukr Priest who is cricket mad that God will win through and this Southern summer the ashes a will be ours, yet again. Of course those who know this noble game also realise that 'the ashes' Dont actually leave 'Lords' M.C.C.(often pronunced like Lourdes by various wags due to it's sacred link) Cricket ground by tradition. I visited a Benedictine Community here in the west and saw sme monks who seemed to be workign under the smae tree for what seemed an eternity. As i got closer I realsied there was a radio on the branches of the olive tree and they were listening to the cricket. I hope that tree was fruitful as it got heaps of extra attention. Monks were continually checking on the scores all day.
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As humorous as this all sounds, the History Channel recently featured a program that offered the theory, that Nancy Reagan through her use of astrology could possibly have been responsible for breaking Tecumseh's Year Zero White House Curse that allegedly killed 7 consecutive US presidents beginning with William Henry Harrison.
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Originally posted by Pavel Ivanovich:
Neve mind all this Australia was robbed of the ashes by the Poms (England team). How anyone else could put all this other stuff in front of God's own game Cricket I do not know!!! I have it on good authority a Ukr Priest who is cricket mad that God will win through and this Southern summer the ashes a will be ours, yet again. .......... Pavel it's no good - these darn Yanks do not understand the passion for cricket  or Rugby for that matter  Now a good Yorkshireman would - the lunch after my Uncle's Funeral was in Headingley - one window looked out on the Cricket Pitch , the other on the Rugby one - he had spent many many hours there. A fitting place it was - Philip would have approved
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Rugby? Fine, a proper sport. Cricket? A game invented by the English (whose rules no one understands), but the whole world routinely beat them at it! The more cricket commentary I hear the more I'm convinced they are just making it up as the go along. Personally, I like the view of cricket found in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Oυτις ημιν φιλει ου φροντιδα | Nemo Nos Diliget Non Curamus
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