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Hearing nuns confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn
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"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn"

- Fulton J. Sheen

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This quote by Fulton J. Sheen is a humorous way of expressing the tediousness of hearing nuns' confessions. It indicates that the procedure of listening to nuns' confessions is so long and drawn out that it feels like being stoned to death with popcorn. This is a metaphor for the sluggish and boring nature of the task. Sheen is recommending that the process of hearing nuns' confessions is so dull and boring that it feels like a sluggish and unpleasant death. The use of popcorn in the metaphor is a funny method of revealing the concept that the job is so ordinary and uninteresting that it seems like being assailed with something as irrelevant as popcorn.

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USA Flag This quote is written / told by Fulton J. Sheen between May 8, 1895 and December 9, 1979. He/she was a famous Clergyman from USA. The author also have 10 other quotes.

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