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The popemobile (media.piefed.zip)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by inari@piefed.zip to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] Artisian@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

The line is no longer there in such comedic fashion; the paragraph is just:

In 2002, John Paul II requested that the media stop referring to the car as the "popemobile", saying that the term was "undignified".[1]

ending there, afaict.