A failed death vigil. What happens when the media thinks the Pope or other aging world figure is getting ready to die and then he doesn't, thus wasting a lot of news time. Based on a fighting style once used by boxer Muhammad Ali known as the "Rope-A-Dope".
Is none other than Albert Hofmann who discovered LSD. After ingesting LSD Hoffman Was called the pope of dope by the hippie subculture in the 1960s after trying to spread its use to thousands of people.