Pope Leo, please give the Swiss Guard new uniforms
If you have never seen the uniforms of the Vatican's Swiss Guard — personal bodyguards to the pope — imagine that St. Peter's Basilica was once tented for fumigation and the enterprising guards, Maria von Trapp-like, reasoned: 'Why let this fabric go to waste?'
The color-blocked red, blue and canary conjures up a Jesus who said, 'Let the little children come unto the bouncy house,' and the bouncy house deflated, and the guards cut it up into clothes.
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