# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/21 "2006-05-24T00:24:37Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] Come eat at DaVinci Burger, where the ratio of bun diameter to burger diameter is always the (echo)Golden Ratio! [/QUOTE] Where’s the beef? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/22 "2006-05-24T00:27:15Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] 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! [/QUOTE] The Grail Blood! 😃 ---
**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 24, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/23 "2006-05-24T00:42:18Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Eh. Sounds reasonable enough. But the DaVinci Code tie-in is annoying as fuck. [/QUOTE] That’s a very tenuous tie-in- Da Vinci was Italian, so the Da Vinci Diet is a Mediterranean diet? :rolleyes: I was hoping they’d at least managed to work phi into there somehow… ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/24 "2006-05-24T02:19:48Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] If the Da Vinci Code Diet is so great, why have I never seen Tom Hanks look heavier? [/QUOTE] He ain’t heavy, he’s a symbologist. _(convulses)_ ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/25 "2006-05-24T02:42:22Z")
From what I remember of the book, there was an awful lot of _staggering backward in shock/disbelief/horror!_, but that seems more like an exercise plan than anything. Please, Lord, make this Da Vinci nonsense obsession _go away_. _(convulses so she can be one of the Cool Kids)_ ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/26 "2006-05-24T03:26:41Z")
> [@](#): > > As a master baker, painter, and woodworker, Stephen Lanzalotta … I know it’s a stretch, but the puerile 14-year-old in me can’t help but giggle convulsively by misreading that … ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/27 "2006-05-24T03:28:26Z")
I’m only here for the convulsing. Seems like the thing to do, so here I go, convulsing for the team. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/28 "2006-05-24T03:31:57Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] Please, Lord, make this Da Vinci nonsense obsession _go away_. [/QUOTE] On the bright side, it has inspired some to learn more about who Da Vinci really was: one of (if not _the_) most brilliant, multi-talented, and omnivorous intelligences who ever lived. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/29 "2006-05-24T03:53:25Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] On the bright side, it has inspired some to learn more about who Da Vinci really was: one of (if not _the_) most brilliant, multi-talented, and omnivorous intelligences who ever lived. [/QUOTE] But did he convulse? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/30 "2006-05-24T04:08:00Z")
It’s not phi that makes this diet work, it’s PIE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/31 "2006-05-24T04:35:12Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] He ain’t heavy, he’s a symbologist. [/QUOTE] Known in real life as a “semiotician”. Sorry. Dan Brown bugs me. _(convulses, attempts to grope other convulsers in the confusion)_ ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/32 "2006-05-24T04:44:53Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] Please, Lord, make this Da Vinci nonsense obsession _go away_. _(convulses so she can be one of the Cool Kids)_ [/QUOTE] Welcome to Uberplex37, would you like a “FibbaNachos” combo for only $9.50. They come in a collectable box shaped like the one in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/33 "2006-05-24T04:56:21Z")
**Anne Neville** They missed a rather “obvious” tie-in with phi (the Golden Ratio). **Leonardo** DaVinci and **Leonardo** Fibonacci. Now if they could bring Nostradamus, the Loch Ness monster and Roswell, New Mexico into this, the Discovery Channel would have enough material for the next 5 years of programming. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/34 "2006-05-24T05:46:12Z")
I thank my lucky _stars_ the film’s received [poor reviews](http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Movies/Reviews/0,1052,69079,00.html). Hopefully it will stem the tide of pop culture excesses like:[ul][li][Cookbooks](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0811821846&itm=1),[/li][li][Breakfast Cereal](http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0681/),[/li][li]Holiday [Christmas Specials](http://poll.imdb.com/title/tt0193524/) & [Music Albums](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000033VG.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg) -and-[/li][\*]A [shitload of toys](http://www.toyrocket.com/html/catalog/cat_sw.html).[/ul]Of course, if the public ignores the critics’ warnings, at least we can all enjoy years of stimulating [Cafe Society discussions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=372341). ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/35 "2006-05-24T07:20:05Z")
[QUOTE=simster] It’s not phi that makes this diet work, it’s PIE!!! [/QUOTE] It’s not phi, **or** pie, it’s _pho_. That’s why the Vietnamese people are so slender, see? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/36 "2006-05-24T08:09:36Z")
Oh, bugger, I forgot to do the Da Vinci Code Convulsion in my last post. ```auto There. Done. :D ``` ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/37 "2006-05-24T10:04:57Z")
[QUOTE=Stentor 2.5] (blinks three times) [/QUOTE] \ ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/38 "2006-05-24T10:59:23Z")
What’s sad is I think I’ve got a coworker who’d buy into it. ☹ If she does, I’ll go into 3.14159 conclusions, interupting the last one to confirm the horror. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/39 "2006-05-24T11:02:07Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] On the bright side, it has inspired some to learn more about who Da Vinci really was: one of (if not _the_) most brilliant, multi-talented, and omnivorous intelligences who ever lived. [/QUOTE] But if his intelligence was omnivorous, how did it stick to the diet? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963/40 "2006-05-24T12:55:32Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] The Grail Blood! 😃 [/QUOTE] Yeah, I was going to put in a joke about Mona Lisa having a bloody nose…but I do have standards. 0Joe [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-da-vinci-code-crap-has-gone-to-far/357963.md?page=3)