Watching the Showtime series The Borgias has given me lots of exposure to much kissing of the Pope’s ring. It’s a veritable make-out session for the ring! And how promiscuous it is! It most certainly gets around, letting any number of people kiss it, one right after the other. Wow, and back then when there were so many germs, and not so much hygiene.
Well, with this in mind, it seems to me that a cute ad for Purell could be people lining up to kiss the Pope’s ring in modern day, and with a special Papal assistant using Purell to disinfect and sterilize the ring for each and every new kisser that approaches the ring for their own public display of affection for His Holiness and Mother Church. And some people could have a cough, or a stuffy nose, or someone might sneeze, or something like that, which would cause everyone to feel a bit uneasy, until they see the assistant wiping off the ring after each and every kiss with a bit of Purell.
And the slogan could be something like: “Cleansing the spirit is the Church’s business, cleansing the rest is ours: Purell.”
