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Yes, I know, I know, he's not really called "Pope Ratzinger."

But it's much more fun to say, and given the guy's history, his longtime behind-the-scenes role as sort of the Vatican's Tom DeLay, and his overall intense right-winginess, sufficient to earn him the nickname "The Panzer Cardinal"... at this point calling Ratzinger by his papal name feels a bit like calling Philip Morris by its preferred, history-free name of Altria.

Last night I started to write a post that actually had, um, content on the subject, and I noticed that the phrase "Pope Ratzinger" looked like a fun one to anagram: four different vowels, two e's, and all but one of the consonants are frequently used.

So out of curiosity, I started fooling around, assisted by the Internet Anagram Server:

POPE RATZINGER

almost instantly became

ZIPPER NEGATOR

which frankly isn't all that surprising.

There are also at least two references to the church's unwillingness to have another 25-year reign anytime soon:

PANZER GOT RIPE
TAP PRIZE GONER

There's also at least one horror movie scene, where the lab assistant seems to piss off the Almighty:

IGOR, REPENT! ZAP!

And, strangely, a bit of advice Carrot Top seems to have taken entirely too much to heart:

ZANIER? GET PROP

But what does surprise me is just how consistently unfriendly everything I could find was:

GROIN PEEP TZAR
GET PROPER NAZI
PREG? PATRONIZE
I GRAZE PET PORN

So, OK. It must be me, or the invented name "Pope Ratzinger."

So I tried "Cardinal Ratzinger" instead.

CARDINAL RATZINGER

becomes... a lot of things I don't even want to print.

You'll just have to find those yourself.