does the Pope shit in the woods
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A combination of the two rhetorical questions is the Pope Catholic? and does a bear shit in the woods?
Pronunciation
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Phrase
[edit]does the Pope shit in the woods
- (idiomatic, humorous, vulgar) Obviously! Rhetorical question in response to a question where the answer is an emphatic yes.
- 2009, Iris Rainer Dart, Til the Real Thing Comes Along, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
- "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, James R. Vance, Killer Butterfly, The eBook Sale (→ISBN), page 233:
- "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!”
- 2014, John Byrne, "Rapt In an Enigma" - "A True-life Tale of the Paranormal Unlike Any You Have Read Before", Lulu Press, Inc, →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, ...