ALSO, BEARS NEED TO STOP POOPING IN THE WOODS

Pope Francis urges hairdressers to stop gossiping

(Thanks to Jay Brandes)

Comments

[Le Petomane]

I thought this was already covered in The Ten Commandments.

[Jeff Meyerson]

But this is where people get the important local gossip, I mean news.

nursecindy told me.

[AmoebaStampede]

"He said they should take inspiration from a 16th century saint who was known for cutting hair, bloodletting and amputations."

I... I don't think I can make any comment that would be as good as that sentence itself.

[man tom]

So you can commit adultery, not tell your hairdresser, and still end up in Principality?

[Jeff Meyerson]

So the Pope wants them to emulate Theodoric of York - Medieval Barber?

[Clankie]

The only holy topic of conversation is baseball.

[AmoebaStampede]

A tangential P.S. to my other comment: the other best sentence I've ever read – by Claire Prentice in her history The Lost Tribe of Coney Island:

"In his major study, The Bontoc Igorot, compiled in 1903, the American ethnologist Albert Ernest Jenks observed that, aside from cutting off the heads of neighboring villagers, the Bontoc Igorrotes were a peaceful, good-humored, honest, industrious, and likable people with low rates of crime."

[nursecindy]

My hairdresser and I do not gossip. We trade information.