Couple Of Programmes Of Possible Interest Tonight?

Have about 100 pages to go in The Da Vinci Code. May have to tape the program tonight to save till afterwards. An interesting book nevertheless.
 
Wh-where am I? Oh, thank God I'm here! I've just come out of a state of catatonia, induced by being forced to watch Eastenders (which is well overdue for renaming as West Ham, judging by the appalling overacting), followed by the two hours of the seriously annoying Tony Robinson over-emoting about the da Vinci bloody Code.

This evening of horror was due to a mutual chum of Mother's and mine coming round armed with lovely M&S nosh, which he then kindly prepared and served, while we allowed him his free run at Mother's new telly. Never again! In future, guests will watch Philadelphia Park and like it. I don't know why he wanted to watch the Code, anyway, since he's read it and has about 300 books on everything and everyone mentioned, and has made numerous trips to the Languedoc to explore the sites there.

I thought it had already been widely accepted by many scholars that Jesus may well have been married and even begotten a child, so none of that came as a great surprise. What came as a surprise was that, for people capable of decoding codes and cryptograms, historians hadn't tumbled earlier to the idea of 'grail' being derived from San Greal and Sang Real, or sangue royale/royal blood. I guess they don't do the more common wordgames!
 
Krizon - you told us you weren't interested in the programme and it appears that you didn't watch it that closely. The whole thing was a debunking exercise, which re-exposed the whole Priory of Sion, on which the 1980s best-seller Holy Blood, Holy Grail was based, as a hoax perpetrated by a surrealist, an actor and a fantasist. Dan Brown omitted to research the exposure of this when he claimed that all the "facts" on which his work of fiction was based had been established beyond doubt. As for San Greal and Sang Real - yes, they are great for word puzzlers but the theory that they were one and the same appears to have been totally down to a medieval typo!

Still, The Da Vinci Code is a good holiday read - and I still think that's a bird not a bloke on Jesus's right in the eonardo Last Supper...
 
The C4 programme took Brown's book apart. As Brian says, still a good page turner, but take with a large pinch of salt.
 
I saw most of The Real Da Vinci Code too but I had to watch Judge John Deed first - Martin Shaw's not bad at all!!!! :D

I liked The Da Vinci Code book, but it is let down a bit when you realise (as I did after I had read it) that it was basically a plagiarised copy of Holy Blood, Holy Grail with a storyline.
 
Brian, I did manage to feign enough interest out of politeness to the person who really wanted to watch the programme, apart from a light doze near the end of the second hour, and yes, I did actually manage to work all that out for myself, too. :rolleyes:
 
Ok, now I'm confused.....I know there are two forums existing in parallel universes but now it appears that I'm living in one too.....Paul & Triptych mention ER on Thursday night - I saw it on Monday night! :confused: Are they repeating it or am I going mad?! I know it's the same episode too as in the one I saw on Monday night Corday left... :confused: :lol:
 
You have timewarped into the future, Dom, and we're a few days behind you. No wonder you've got headaches - the stress of cyberforce on the human body hasn't yet been completely overcome. Now, while you're out there, how's about a few winners for next week?
 
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