Talk about your titles....

A coworker and I were researching something for work this afternoon. Along the way, we encountered an internet hit that somehow led us to the Wikipedia site for Nicolas Steno* - who was, apparently a Roman Catholic bishop, an amateur scientist and, I kid you not, the Titular Bishop of Titopolis.

The Titular Bishop of Titopolis…. I don’t know what that posting was, exactly. But, man, I think I want that title on my business card. Talk about your conversation starters or lead-ins to an “elevator speech.  "Why, uh, yes…. Currently I’m the Titular Bishop of Titopolis….” And that just naturally leads into…wait for it… “But, you can call me the uh…Big Tit.”  Of course, what springs to mind when I hear the “Titular” head of “Titopolis” is maybe the owner of a very large strip club. So, on second thought…maybe it’s better I not be known by such a monicker.

Now, you’re probably asking yourself, how on earth our Google search for an image of an air traffic control radar scope led us to the Titular Bishop of Titopolis? Chock it up to the miracle of the internet’s search engine technology, I guess.  But…the Titular Bishop of Titopolis? Really? Seriously? I mean try saying that three or four times real fast without mucking it up and possibly modifying it into some other mild profanity. (I know this from experience. We tried and we did.)

Now, before anyone starts to light me up for bashing on Catholic hierarchy, I assure you I’m not. Nor do I mean to make fun of the good bishop’s contributions not only to the Church (enough that he was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988) but also to science (geology and anatomy)* and apparently they are many. But, I’m sorry; a title like that just begs a little chuckle.

 

*Wikipedia; Nicolas Steno. (2012, Janu 11). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Steno, January 11, 2012.

** According to Wikipedia, the above image of Nicolas Steno is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.