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Finally, he finds something, grins, and pulls out a pair of women&#8217;s panties. <\/p>\n<p>St. Peter looks at the man with a raised eyebrow and asks, &#8220;And just what do <i>those <\/i>symbolize?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The man replies, &#8220;They&#8217;re Carols.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><small>(via my folks)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men die and meet St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. &#8220;In honor of this holy season,&#8221; St. Peter says, &#8220;you must each possess something that symbolizes Christmas to get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132486,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/02\/the-catholic-church-in-china.html","url_meta":{"origin":4960,"position":0},"title":"The Catholic Church in China","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 2-Jan-17 11:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Vatican will be willing to accommodate and be flexible with a temporal government, but I cannot imagine their \"breaking\" the episcopacy as China wants. 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