> The hippie smiles and replies, “oh don’t worry Your Eminence, we each
> have a parachute. The smartest man in the world just strapped on my
> backpack and jumped out of the airplane.”
I remember this joke being told with Henry Kissinger in the Larry Summers role. An excruciating stage-Nazi accent was obligatory in the telling.
Popes are addressed as 'Your Holiness', btw. Cardinals get the 'Eminence'.