does the pope shit in the woods

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   Helping her into her still-damp coat, she asked if Laura had a solicitor. Laura laughed, started off down the lane, limping a little more than usual, and then she turned back, a grin on her face, all traces of tears banished. “Does the pope shit in the woods?”

   2021, Paula Hawkins, chapter 26, in A Slow Fire Burning, [New York, N.Y.]: Random House Large Print, →ISBN, page 281

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   “Did Elvis [Presley] really die?” ask the British punk-pop duo Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine in an acrid, finally shouted ballad [“Is Wrestling Fixed?”]. “Is wrestling fixed?” Prince the unstoppable sex machine naturally answers in the negative. Every grunt on this record is 100 percent genuine, every falsetto direct to your ear from heaven above. Is Prince fixed? Are you kidding? Are the three bears Catholic? Does the pope shit in the woods? Are the dead dug up fresh daily to be born again and again and again?

   1992 October 23–29, Howard Hampton, “’Rot-o-Mania: Prince’s honeymoon in Vegas”, in LA Weekly, volume 14, number 47, Los Angeles, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 51, column 3

   "[…] do you understand that last point about combining two jokes together?" […] I almost replied 'Does a bear shit in the woods?' but then I […] saw the chance to answer in a way that would show I understood them perfectly. "Does the pope shit in the woods?" There was a huge round of applause from the invisible audience, in fact it wasn't just a round of applause, ...

   2014, John Byrne, "Rapt In an Enigma" - "A True-life Tale of the Paranormal Unlike Any You Have Read Before", Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN

   Basically, we played for half an hour to our domestic audience but in a faraway land, at great cost, to no industry, got ripped off by the promoter (who disappeared before giving us the promised ‘fifty quid for petrol’) and after the subsequent packing down and multiblock lugging of heavy equipment and several-hour drive home, broke down on the M4 and got into bed at 6am the next day. Were we bothered? Were we fuck. Did we do it again? Does the pope shit in the woods?!

   2020, James Kennedy, “Why Do We Do It?”, in Noise Damage: My Life as a Rock ’n’ Roll Underdog, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire: Lightning Books, →ISBN

alternative does the pope shit in the woods

1. humorousidiomaticvulgarObviously! Rhetorical question in response to a question where the answer is an emphatic yes.

   "I asked her if she would like a coffee. She turned round, smiled and said: 'Does the Pope shit in the woods?' The wife was aghast. Of course I got the blame!”

   2009, James R. Vance, Killer Butterfly, The eBook Sale, page 233

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   "You still interested in a writing job?" he asked. […] Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear shit in the woods? Or, as one of the guys had said a few weeks before, Does the Pope shit in the woods? A writing job. “Yeah,” was all she could say.

   2009, Iris Rainer Dart, Til the Real Thing Comes Along, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN

   "[…] do you understand that last point about combining two jokes together?" […] I almost replied 'Does a bear shit in the woods?' but then I […] saw the chance to answer in a way that would show I understood them perfectly. "Does the pope shit in the woods?" There was a huge round of applause from the invisible audience, in fact it wasn't just a round of applause, ...

   2014, John Byrne, "Rapt In an Enigma" - "A True-life Tale of the Paranormal Unlike Any You Have Read Before", Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN

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