Dan Brown - The DaVinci Code

I first came across this theory playing Gabriel Knight, the puter game and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed playing it. Last night, there was a programme on TV about the story behind the Da Vinci Codes and it totally debunked the entire thing. The bottom line was that the Priory of Sion never existed and the whole thing was a hoax. Unfortunately the writers of Holy Blood, Holy Grail didn't believe it was a hoax and published anyway. Apparently the hoax was revealed about a year before Holy Blood, Holy Grail was published.Having said all that, I find the subject fascinating and I'm still kicking myself that, on a visit to Roslin Chapel, I was too mean to pay the extortionate entrance fee. I'm gonna have to go back, since it's just about on my doorstep.

Yeah, but have you considered that the story of the Priory of Sion being a myth was put about by the Priory themselves because the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail were getting too close to the truth? The whole Grail legend is like a hall of mirrors and nothing is as it seems.........I think! I could be wrong, maybe I'm looking in the wrong mirror.

Got it in one, Brian, attack is the best form of defence. It's a bit like using a strawman argument to "debunk" evolution. Set up a definition of evolution that is preposterous then proceed to knock that definition down. Truthfulness just doesn't come into it.The Priory could easily hide by setting up a mythical, parallel Priory that could be easily disproved if the so-called evidence is followed to its conclusion, then trumpet the disproval. Next time someone brings up the Priory everyone says "but that was debunked ages ago", not realisingthat this time they may have hit on the real Priory. Does this make sense or am I just indulging in late night ramblings?And jobby is spellt with a "Y" or an "ie". So there, nananananaaa

Posh Auld Reekie!!! Ah'll huv ye ken ah'm fae Glesga' an' oan a scale a' 1 tae 10, the east end ranks as minus 15! An' it is jobbie, if ye waant tae pronounce it tae rhyme wi' toady ye spell it wi' "oa". Awa' an claw yer simmit!!! Yer bum's oot the windae!