The Pope Resigns!

Shock news: Pope Benedict XVI has announced his resignation.  He is to step down on February 28th.

English: Pope Benedict XVI during general audition (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Twitterverse is agog at the news and speculation is rife as to his reason.

Forget the conspiracy theories, however – The Laughing Housewife can exclusively reveal the decision for his decision (via her secret source, the Hub): he is responsible for the Findus horse meat scandal.

It makes sense: he’s from Europe.

You heard it here first.

Joke 690

Micrograph of tissue paper. Illumination is by ultraviolet light causing autofluorescence of the fibres, the image was captured through a blue filter to block direct illumination. 9 images manually stitched into a panorama. Individual fibres are ~10 μm wide. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A young executive was leaving the office late one evening when he found the CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand.

“Listen,” said the CEO, “this is a very sensitive and important document here, and my secretary has gone for the night. Can you make this thing work for me?”

“Certainly,” said the young executive. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button.

“Excellent, excellent!” said the CEO, as his paper disappeared inside the machine. “I just need one copy…”