Do You Have A Favourite Type Of Bean?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I may be being a bit cynical here, but am I the only person who thinks they've chosen an old pope on purpose?
They've had great publicity over the last few weeks, (will he, won't he, oops, he finally has...) then the funeral and all the associated palaver coupled with the nine days of mourning, then the choice of the new pope, then the reporting of the special mass for the new pope... it's just been going on for ages. Now, I reckon they've been sat round in the Vatican thinking, "Wow, this is the best publicity we've had for donkeys' years, let's choose a dead cert and do it all again in a couple of years... "