Video: As The Pope Tweets

The His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI sends his very first tweet, on an iPad.

He accidentally deleted his first actual tweet, but I screengrabbed it.

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Well I feel a little bit younger for having watched that, anyone else?
tmburke

Funny to me as I once got a Grindr message while waiting for the Sistine Chapel. Was 300 meters away, photo was just of a priest colar. Can’t remember what his line was, but it was something nasty in Latin like ‘beautiful boy’. Parents asked me why I was laughing. Yeah….
- Halloween_Jack
  
  Seriously? About the only part of that that’s not likely is the Latin part, because the Vatican is about the only place on earth that still uses it (and I think that they’ve actually dropped it as their official language by now).
  - tmburke
    
    Who’s to say he didn’t think it was a good conversation starter? I’ve seen much odder things on there. Wish I still had the screengrab
crashtested

I agree wholeheartedly both with the comedic nature of this post and with a previous post supporting the statement, “Rape jokes are never funny.” Now I feel some confusion.
- http://burntheflag.ca Jardine
  
  George Carlin disagrees (nsfw language of course)
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FsfLPohZ_c