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Apr. 18th, 2006 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mcroftSo my friend Pete has a blog on whiterose, which deserves greater readership. He's a good writer and a fine wit.
As much as I want to talk about his standard of cromulence, I'm going to talk about something closer to my heart, which is me.
It's not every day that I get to cross a classic John Belushi movie with a real-world shadowy Vatican organization and it's petulance regarding a fictional knock-off of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, but some days are better than others. Today Pete mentioned that Opus Dei wants Sony Pics to put a disclaimer on The DaVinci Code. As they did not specify any of the particulars of this disclaimer, I suggested the following wording, which will probably not win...
As much as I want to talk about his standard of cromulence, I'm going to talk about something closer to my heart, which is me.
It's not every day that I get to cross a classic John Belushi movie with a real-world shadowy Vatican organization and it's petulance regarding a fictional knock-off of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, but some days are better than others. Today Pete mentioned that Opus Dei wants Sony Pics to put a disclaimer on The DaVinci Code. As they did not specify any of the particulars of this disclaimer, I suggested the following wording, which will probably not win...
Disclaimer: Opus Dei is not actually the lead singer of Opus Dei and the Knights. Opus Dei will not sing Motown hits at your Frat Party.
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Date: 2006-04-19 01:54 pm (UTC)Somehow I see a vision of a tipsy cartoon penguin, wallowing in an oversized gold chalice.