[He probably prays before takeoff too. But he'd do that anyway, even if he wasn't in a plane.] I gave a friend of mine a ride this weekend in a plane. We were joking about understanding why the pope always kisses the ground when he gets off of his plane. Fortunately, my friend didn't do that. But it got me thinking. I looked up some source images, did a quick sketch, some minimal shading, added a simple thought balloon (thanks to ballontales.com for instructions on thought balloons) and called it a day. It's a quick sketch, not cleaned up at all, but that's really all the effort this simple joke merits. images/Drawings/Sketches/ground.png