# lineage **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [March 6, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699 "2011-03-06T20:06:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![natassia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7feea3/32.png) [@natassia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natassia)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/1 "2011-03-06T20:06:56Z")
I am a descendant of Joseph of Arimathea. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/2 "2011-03-06T20:13:03Z")
Cite? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/3 "2011-03-06T22:08:21Z")
Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Boards, **natassia**. I confess to being a little confused. This forum is devoted to comments on Cecil’s columns, so I assume you’re referring to this one: [What is the Holy Grail? - The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2444/what-is-the-holy-grail) ? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/4 "2011-03-07T00:19:47Z")
> [@](#): > > I am a descendant of Joseph of Arimathea. There’s a pretty good chance that so is everyone else on the planet. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/5 "2011-03-07T02:03:32Z")
I am a decendent of Joseph of Arimathea’s father. So there. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/6 "2011-03-07T03:08:17Z")
Isn’t Joseph of A a fictional character? … I’m related to D’Artagnon, 43rd cousin once removed. Well, on a more serious note, I’m descended from Jacob’s son Levi and my wife is descended from Moses’ brother Aaron. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/7 "2011-03-07T06:06:16Z")
I am Spartacus !! ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/8 "2011-03-07T09:02:23Z")
What the hell is a grail, anyway? Are there some around that aren’t holy? Where do you find those? What do you do with them? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/9 "2011-03-07T15:12:07Z")
A grail is a fishplate. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/10 "2011-03-07T15:18:28Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > A grail is a fishplate. Nonsense: they would have served lamb at the Last Supper, not fish. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/11 "2011-03-07T15:20:48Z")
Cannibalism? ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/12 "2011-03-07T15:55:04Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > There’s a pretty good chance that so is everyone else on the planet. Que? > [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > What the hell is a grail, anyway? Are there some around that aren’t holy? Where do you find those? What do you do with them? Apparently nobody knows. They’re whatever you want them to be. > [@](#): > > Though commonly depicted as a chalice or as the dish holding the Paschal Lamb, in some accounts it’s a cauldron, a philosopher’s stone, or an emerald struck from Lucifer’s crown as he plunged into hell. It’s “the Holy Thingy”. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/13 "2011-03-07T16:02:06Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > It’s “the Holy Thingy”. No-[_This_ is the Holy Thingy.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_prepuce) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/14 "2011-03-07T16:18:53Z")
No, [this is](http://rlv.zcache.com/holier_than_thou_swiss_cheese_joke_sticker-p217882408313290103tdcj_125.jpg). In fact it’s holier. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/15 "2011-03-07T16:28:02Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > No, [this is](http://rlv.zcache.com/holier_than_thou_swiss_cheese_joke_sticker-p217882408313290103tdcj_125.jpg). In fact it’s holier. Cheesus of Nazareth? ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/16 "2011-03-07T16:43:33Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > Cannibalism? Matthew 26:26-28 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/17 "2011-03-07T16:54:06Z")
They didn’t have time to go to Williams-Sonoma to get a tagine. ---
**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lineage/573699/18 "2011-03-07T18:18:08Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > Isn’t Joseph of A a fictional character? … I’m related to D’Artagnon, 43rd cousin once removed. Neither one is a fictional character, although, like Cyrano de Bergerac, they have fictional versions who are more famous than they are.