The of Milwaukee Code
Special thanks to a friend and a sister who probably don't want their names used freely on the Internet...But, add my voice to the growing legion who's so sick of the DA VINCI CODE that I'd be willing to eat the Mona Lisa raw if it would this nonsense go away...
Why? The religious offensiveness of the film has been kicked around more than Denise Richards at Couple's Counseling... That's my attempt at a blue Fryar's Club Roast joke... I'll keep working on it... Anyway, it obvious that it's wrong to say anything negative about Islam -- a "peaceful religion" embroiled in war across every continent except Antarctica (but those SUNY penguins are still a pain in the ass...) But, Christianity (and especially Catholics) are fair game. Why? Probably because it's a majority religion in the U.S. And, as we know, in a PC world, the majority is always bad, and the minority always good. Muslims can see some badly drawn, unfunny comics in a Dutch newspaper with a circulation smaller than (insert another dirty friar's joke here -- probably about a penis), and those Muslims riot and KILL around the globe. That's valuable free speech. Christians are left to shrug off the DA VINCI CODE and accept the accusation that their religion is a global fraud because, if they protest, they're close-minded fundamentalists.
OK... Enough of that... What pisses me off more about this insipid, badly written and clumsily reasoned book -- and the lugubrious, mind-numbing movie -- is that a lot of dimwitted readers around the world will only understand or remember Leonardo as that guy who "hid clues and stuff in his paintings and whatever." Nevermind that he was a superhuman artist, philosopher, engineer, inventor, scientist, etc. He hid "X marks the global fraud" on a sketch of his bathroom in Florence.
AND, if you ever needed proof of how God-awful dumb modern society is, DA VINCI was not Leonardo's G-D last name, for chimp's sake. It was from whence he came. In other words, he was Leonardo FROM VINCI or OF VINCI! It was a nice neighborhood in suburban renaissance Italy. Gated community and such. If we still used this nomenclature system, I would be John of Milwaukee -- or it would be Bart of Springfield, Madonna of Crazy or Oprah of Kitchen. So, translated, this idiotic book (and its tired Art Bell conspiracy theory) is the OF VINCI CODE. I'm left to ponder if it's money-soaked author even realizes that...
As usual, my impassioned bleatings will amount to naught as movie sequels are already en route. Of course, Dan of Money has to write another crap book eventually, but he'll be content to count his sacrilegious cash for a while... While hopes that Catholics and their ilk don't start burning down their Friday Fish Frys in protest...
Why? The religious offensiveness of the film has been kicked around more than Denise Richards at Couple's Counseling... That's my attempt at a blue Fryar's Club Roast joke... I'll keep working on it... Anyway, it obvious that it's wrong to say anything negative about Islam -- a "peaceful religion" embroiled in war across every continent except Antarctica (but those SUNY penguins are still a pain in the ass...) But, Christianity (and especially Catholics) are fair game. Why? Probably because it's a majority religion in the U.S. And, as we know, in a PC world, the majority is always bad, and the minority always good. Muslims can see some badly drawn, unfunny comics in a Dutch newspaper with a circulation smaller than (insert another dirty friar's joke here -- probably about a penis), and those Muslims riot and KILL around the globe. That's valuable free speech. Christians are left to shrug off the DA VINCI CODE and accept the accusation that their religion is a global fraud because, if they protest, they're close-minded fundamentalists.
OK... Enough of that... What pisses me off more about this insipid, badly written and clumsily reasoned book -- and the lugubrious, mind-numbing movie -- is that a lot of dimwitted readers around the world will only understand or remember Leonardo as that guy who "hid clues and stuff in his paintings and whatever." Nevermind that he was a superhuman artist, philosopher, engineer, inventor, scientist, etc. He hid "X marks the global fraud" on a sketch of his bathroom in Florence.
AND, if you ever needed proof of how God-awful dumb modern society is, DA VINCI was not Leonardo's G-D last name, for chimp's sake. It was from whence he came. In other words, he was Leonardo FROM VINCI or OF VINCI! It was a nice neighborhood in suburban renaissance Italy. Gated community and such. If we still used this nomenclature system, I would be John of Milwaukee -- or it would be Bart of Springfield, Madonna of Crazy or Oprah of Kitchen. So, translated, this idiotic book (and its tired Art Bell conspiracy theory) is the OF VINCI CODE. I'm left to ponder if it's money-soaked author even realizes that...
As usual, my impassioned bleatings will amount to naught as movie sequels are already en route. Of course, Dan of Money has to write another crap book eventually, but he'll be content to count his sacrilegious cash for a while... While hopes that Catholics and their ilk don't start burning down their Friday Fish Frys in protest...
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