17 October, 2008

Almost Omniscient

An Italian professor in my dept made a joke this afternoon at a colloquium when we were talking about nuns. Apparently there's an old saying:
There's only three things God doesn't know:
How much money the Vatican has,
What Jesuits really think, and
How many different orders of nuns there are.


But a quick Google bring up a couple of different versions:
What the Dominicans are thinking,
What the Jesuits are doing, and
How many orders of nuns there are.

or

What a Dominican just said,
What a Jesuit is going to say, and
How many Franciscan orders there are.

Looks like the Jesuits are a common theme (no surprise) but the Vatican's money version wins the prize for most cynical!

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