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Pope John Paul II picked 22 new cardinals . He has now picked 106 of the 123 cardinals who will elect the next pope.
This question was raised in 1968 by Harry Beck, a member of the Communications Workers of America, who sued his union because it was using his dues to help elect Hubert Humphrey (who lost, incidentally, even though labor was a much bigger force in American politics than it is today).
Elect Alan Keyes and everyone will be required to wear underwear on the outside (to continue my homage to Woody Allen's Bananas ).
This procession of appliances spilling out onto the sidewalk also borrows heavily from Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind , in which the elect are inexorably drawn to Devil's Tower, where they await the arrival of extraterrestrial spacecraft.
Nor is communication really disrupted even by those new, semiliterate Americanisms: communic ant , consult ant , defend ant; counsel or, elect or (al), jur or , where the schwa (as a in above, e in her ) has been replaced by broad (- ant ) or rounded (- or ) vowel sounds.