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podling ([personal profile] podling) wrote2006-05-23 09:08 am

I actually heard someone say this in my office...

"The DaVinci Code is trying to change the bible."

That's right, someone actually said that. Out loud. And was serious.

[identity profile] laurasaurora.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
it's FICTION people!!!

argh.

[identity profile] ellyssian.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but you can't tell them that... they act like it's God's own truth, or something.

Oh, wait... you were referring to the *other* book. =)

[identity profile] laurasaurora.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
yes, i've been trying to ignore the "debate" as much as possible. it hurts to think about it.

[identity profile] chezelliott.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
well, so is much of the bible, but you don't see people acknowledging THAT, either.

[identity profile] vgnwtch.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's a damn good thing no-one's ever changed it before now!

Honestly, some people.

[identity profile] vgnwtch.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Just as Shakespeare is fortunately available in the original Klingon.

[identity profile] piratejenny.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I think someone in your office needs a smackdown.
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[identity profile] buymeaclue.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
oh no they squidn't!

(do tell me when that starts getting old, because for me? it never will.)

[identity profile] crowyhead.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I almost called you yesterday when someone on my train said, "If they can cure the flu, why can't they cure the common cold?" and then went on to detail how the Man is keeping us down so they can make more money on cold medicine.

[identity profile] d2leddy.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
This would make a great post in [profile] mock_the_stupid.

[identity profile] malinaldarose.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
*points to icon*

[identity profile] d2leddy.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I need to post the Out Out!! You Demons of Stupidity!! Dilbert in my cube.

[identity profile] malinaldarose.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I have the entire strip on my monitor; from the look of it, I must've cut it out of a Dilbert-a-day calendar a few years back. I really should enlarge the last panel, though, and put it on the outside of my cube, along with the strip where Alice, speaking for cubicle-dwellers everywhere tells the loud talkers outside her cube to SHUT UP!!

[identity profile] tygerseye.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Change the Bible. How would it do that exactly? Get in there with a pen and cross out the bad parts?

I wonder what they said about The Passion of the Christ? Was THAT trying to rewrite the Bible, too?

[identity profile] vgnwtch.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
How would it do that exactly? Get in there with a pen and cross out the bad parts?

That's how they did it the first time round.

The same coworker also only wears skirts, apparently it says that somewhere in the bible as well.

It says that men and women should wear gender-appropriate clothing. As trousers are made for and marketed at women, it makes them gender-appropriate. Also, this is in the clothing and dietary code of the Old Testament, which "old covenant" was supposed to be rendered obsolete by the coming of Christ. However, if you colleague desires to follow the code, she must forgo gold jewellery, earrings, speaking in church, and mixed fibres in clothing; keep Kosher; must stone those who do not stay in their tents on the Sabbath, and remember to make burnt offerings to the Lord.

[identity profile] tygerseye.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
hehehe

Yeah, tell her she can't have cheeseburgers anymore. That'll cook her goose. ;-)

[identity profile] betra.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
PLEASE tell me you laughed out loud when they said that.

Sheesh.

Like the Bible never got revised. King James, anyone?
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[personal profile] lonesomenumber1 2006-05-23 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Quick! Somebody take away its crayons!