# This Da Vinci Code crap has gone to far. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 23, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963 "2006-05-23T21:32:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/1 "2006-05-23T21:32:54Z")
[The Diet Code: Revolutionary Weight Loss Secrets from Da Vinci and the Golden Ratio](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0446578878&itm=1) Is this the final sign that all of this “Da Vinci” non-sense has finally run its course? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/2 "2006-05-23T21:36:11Z")
(convulses) ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/3 "2006-05-23T21:48:52Z")
(joins **Merijeek** ) ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/4 "2006-05-23T21:50:31Z")
This DaVinci Code crap went too far several years ago. Then it became sad, then pathetic. I don’t know what the hell it is now. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/5 "2006-05-23T21:52:13Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] (convulses) [/QUOTE] Someone tried the diet then. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/6 "2006-05-23T21:59:03Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Ashtar] This DaVinci Code crap went too far several years ago. Then it became sad, then pathetic. I don’t know what the hell it is now. [/QUOTE] (stops convulsing) Now it’s sunk even lower…it’s a whole new level of marketing. Come to DaVinciCodeLand and ride the Opus Dei Devil Drop! Come eat at DaVinci Burger, where the ratio of bun diameter to burger diameter is always the (echo)Golden Ratio! That time of the month? Use Davinci Code Mona Lisa Maxipads! What’s she grinning about? What’s she hiding? I’ll bet you can guess! (begins convulsing anew) -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/7 "2006-05-23T22:11:04Z")
(convulses as well) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/8 "2006-05-23T22:12:55Z")
^ I think I just walked into a Pentecostal service. Lots of convulsing going on here. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Stentor\_2.5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@Stentor\_2.5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stentor_2.5)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/9 "2006-05-23T22:12:58Z")
(blinks three times) ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/10 "2006-05-23T22:13:14Z")
A church in Stillwater has a little sign that stated this past Sunday’s Sermon: > [@](#): > > It’s a movie > It’s fiction > Get over it Of course, people in glass houses… ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/11 "2006-05-23T22:15:48Z")
Just today I was in the checkout line at the grocery store, and the cover on one of the womens’ magazines shouted out, “Lose a pound a day with the DaVinci Code Diet.” I almost lost it right there. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/12 "2006-05-23T22:18:48Z")
[QUOTE=FatBaldGuy] I almost lost it right there. [/QUOTE] If by “it” you mean “your cookies,” you should have done so. That’s how the diet works, silly! ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/13 "2006-05-23T22:30:12Z")
(looks around) (shrugs) (convulses too, just to fit in) 😃 What would a Da Vinci Code diet _be_? Someone is going to have to sacrifice themselves and take a look inside this book and tell us just _how_ anything from the book applies to dietary advice. I really can’t imagine how that would work. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/14 "2006-05-23T22:42:38Z")
If the Da Vinci Code Diet is so great, why have I never seen Tom Hanks look heavier? ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/15 "2006-05-23T22:58:28Z")
Some people claim the phi and Finbonacci numbers can be used to maximize your earnings trading stocks. There’s probably a “Code” for whatever numerlogical poppycock you like. Not sure how phi is supposed to help my diet, though. Maybe if I adjust my portions to produce a Fibonacci series (imagine a cake, and each night you eat a golden rectangle, until it is gone) I’ll get thinner, I dunno… ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/16 "2006-05-23T23:03:33Z")
Ah, but you people are missing the truly sublime effect that is Americana. Grab hold of a popular idea and flog it for every last cent til it’s infused in every part of people’s lives and people have long since stopped caring, have in fact started loathing the very sight of the thing, and you are now losing money on it. That there’s what we call “DaVinci Marketing.” ---
**Author:** ![Boggette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/17 "2006-05-24T00:02:48Z")
[QUOTE=Maureen] That there’s what we call “DaVinci Marketing.” [/QUOTE] Ah, yes. Included in the marketing kit are all the History Channel, Biography Channel, ABC Special Reports (made that one up, but I’m sure it’s probably out there), etc., specials on “what’s factual” and “what’s fictional” about the book and movie. Every gosh-darned day. At least 3 channels at a time. Some show is there to prove or debunk the book and movie. ARRRGHHH! Shut up already! It wasn’t all that great a book to begin with! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![MaddyStrut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MaddyStrut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaddyStrut)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/18 "2006-05-24T00:03:29Z")
[QUOTE=Loopydude] Not sure how phi is supposed to help my diet, though. Maybe if I adjust my portions to produce a Fibonacci series (imagine a cake, and each night you eat a golden rectangle, until it is gone) I’ll get thinner, I dunno… [/QUOTE] If that’s the way it works, I’d probably lose weight. If I had to calculate a bunch of number sequences accurately and then get the portions geometrically correct just to have a meal, I’d probably never eat. Maybe I’ll just try all the convulsing going on in this thread. At least I’d get some exercise. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/19 "2006-05-24T00:09:44Z")
[QUOTE=Anne Neville] What would a Da Vinci Code diet _be_? Someone is going to have to sacrifice themselves and take a look inside this book and tell us just _how_ anything from the book applies to dietary advice. I really can’t imagine how that would work. [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > FROM OUR EDITORS > Like Leonardo da Vinci, master baker, painter, and woodworker Stephen Lanzalotta is a Renaissance man. In each of his specialties, he applies the time-honored principle of the Golden Ratio. Using that seemingly magical guideline, “the Da Vinci Baker” has developed a Mediterranean-style diet to improve metabolism and achieve weight loss. Lanzalotta maintains that this diet plan is as easy as 1-2-3 ( **1 part grain; 2 parts protein; 3 parts vegetables and fruit.** ) The Diet Code contains meal plans, recipes, and Italian tips on healthy eating. (bolding mine.) Eh. Sounds reasonable enough. But the DaVinci Code tie-in is annoying as fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/20 "2006-05-24T00:11:40Z")
I think Da Vinci was a little too fond of sausage for my taste. I’ll skip it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963.md?page=2)