Not quite sure if this is enough to send me to hell...
...but I was probably persona non grata in the Vatican for a while.

I spent a few months on the dole back in 2005. The only distraction from the tedium of filling out endless application forms for shitty admin jobs was the running saga of when Pope John Paul II would go for his meeting with the boss.

"Why not combine the two?" though I.

So, two days before the Pope actually died I sent off a CV and a very polite covering letter to the Vatican applying for the soon to be vacant position. I told them all about my art degree (which would be handy for talking about the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel) and that I once did a night course in carpentry, a bit like that Jesus bloke.

I even told them that I had already chosen my Pope name: Pope Shakin' Stevens I.

Buggers never invited me in for an interview.

I wasn't too popular down the Jobcentre either when I put this down on my list of what I had done to find work in the past fortnight.
(Dai Napoleon, Thu 11 Dec 2008, 22:24, Reply)