***Can somebody please translate this into American?***

Sure, I'll try!

***IMO it was a bit cack compared to the 'spiracy factual book "the holy blood and the holy grail" that Dan Brown ripped it off from.
Can't imagine the movie's much cop when the book was such a duffer.***

"In my opinion, it did not hold up well when compared to the non-fiction conspiracy book titled *Holy Blood, Holy Grail* which the author of *The DaVinci Code* used very, very heavily as a source.

"I cannot imagine the film version of *The DaVinci Code* is worth seeing when the book itself was so poorly done."

There, how'd I do? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Mulan>getting my EN for Conversation met through MB and my EN for Attractive Spouse met by Errol Flynn and Cary Elwes!

You got that right and say it much better than I did. I tried once. It fell on deaf ears.

Don't tell me The Velveteen Rabbit was not based on a real story and a real wabbit!!!!!!!!

Count me in. I completely concur.

Thought I would throw my $0.02 into the to the mix.

First I read the book and loved it. It helps that I have been to some of the places mentioned in the book I suppose. It was really fairly good. His previous book is actually pretty slow, this one moved along.

I have not seen the movie but will. Tom Hanks is a good actor and "Opie" is a good director. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Heck, I loved Apollo 13 but then I had seen it on the launch pad back in the day. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

I will relay to you a few comments made by my minister during Easter services, as the book was part of his sermon, but not in the fashion one would expect. He relay he had been asked if he felt the book was true. His response to the person was to ask "What part of the book store did you find the book?" Her response: "The fiction section." He smiled and said he found his copy in the same place, and had no reason to believe the book store had misplaced it. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I like a good suspense story and the best ones make enough touch with reality to make you wonder...but NOT BELEIVE. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Just my thoughts.

JL

I am not offended by anything on this thread with the exception of the two above statements. Those two statements are highly inflammatory to me. And I like WAT, I think that he is a very intelligent and helpful resource on this site...I know that he isn't a Christian, and I can handle that, and WAT, you know that many here are Christians, some that you even consider friends, I believe. Anyway, WAT, I just thought that you should know, FWIW.

Mrs. W

P.S. And Heck yeah Susan I wanna see those pictures-I may even want to borrow the outfits, 'specially if they include a tiara!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Susan,

I CRY like a baby EVERY time I read that story to my DD6 at bedtime...LOVE IT!!!

Mrs. W

Of course they include a tiara. If Pep will OK it, I'll link you to our photo album online. (via email)

PEP??? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Here's 50 cents worth from my little Lutheran corner of the world:

I think this book and this movie are great - not because Dan Brown wrote a neat thriller, not because Ron Howard is an excellent director, not because Tom Hanks is a fine actor, but because they have prompted Christians across the country, and around the world to reflect on their "walk with God".

Clergy of every denomination should thank Messrs Brown, Howard, and Hanks for provoking thought, reflection, and discussion on Jesus. What an opportunity!

And, instead of finding offence in fiction, consider this:


[color:"red"] [/color] John 15:12 - This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.



Because, at least to me, that's what Christianity is all about. Everything else is extraneous.

You want conspiracy? I'll give you conspiracy.

Check out David Icke's "The Biggest Secret."

For 10,000 years, the world has been ruled by an alien race of lizard men. All our governments and religions have been created by Lizard Men, and they still shape-shift to human form.

Think of Opus Dei, with long, darting tongues.

Look at Queen Elizabeth II or George Bush long enough -- you'll see their lizard forms.

Drop acid, and the reptilian illusion often drops and you will see lizards.

Why do you think LSD is illegal??? And who made it illegal??? Huh???

My Sunday School teacher said today that we should all read A Skeleton in God's Closet. It is a NOVEL.

All but the Bible aside, to me, Christianity is about this...John 14:6


[color:"red"]"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."[/color]


Mrs. W

Lizard MEN ... LM-bloody-AO!

Makes perfect sense to me. In the dating world sometimes you get a chilling peek at MEN who were always suspected to be reptile-like. And this ISN'T a good thing, just in case anyone was wondering. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Costume Party at A.M. Martin's House! WOOOO HOOOO!!! LOL!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Mrs. W <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Cool, but .... I don't think my costume is up to "scale". <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

BWAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I think I'm coming as a Sleestack from The Land of the Lost! Anybody remember them? If not, click here! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Mrs. W <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Very nice. One thing tho, you have a zit on top your head hon, and its ready to blow.

That's Not me silly, that's Mr. W, of course...He's really gotta start usin' his Proactive Solution...Maybe that "honker" will be gone before the shindig...You won't see me til I make the grand entrance at the party like the drama queen that I am...LOL! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Mrs. W <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Thanks for the translation, Mulan. Wasn't sure if he was talking about the Monty Python movie for a moment there. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Huh?

sure

why not

everyone else has seen my azz getting kissed by the pink flamingo