Thursday, April 27, 2006

Holy Blood, Holy Shit




News this week that the judge that presided over the plagary case between The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown and the authors of The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail has inserted a secret code in his judgment of the case. Apparently the code is cleverly hidden with an italicsed letter at the start of each odd word. All this beggars the question, what is the stupidest thing you have ever done whilst bored at work.

I remember a rather simian work colleague and I devised a similar code breaking game in which we used hireoglyphs to convey off sentiment and crude messages to each other. The ciphers kept us going for many's the long afternoon.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Whilst the judges verdict was a little strange (to someone who read The Holy Blood), his insertion of a code is just bizarre - maybe he was so busy on this he happened to forget what plagiarism is?
I think the strangest thing I ever did was actually a combination of several things; I looked up unnecessary chemicals that would react badly when put in close proximity to one another, and tried my best to order them and see if the theoretical results (explosion, fire) happened. When they failed to arrive, I amused myself by using a co-employee's windows log-on to access porn during work hours. I'm such a nice employee!

9:06 AM  
Blogger Major General Creedon said...

The secret is to order the chemicals one at a time from different suppliers. Not that I should ever have to do that as The Corps provides me with free explosives, but I have to fill out so many forms for them that sometimes the home-made option is quicker.
Did this 'employee' leave his windows unlocked or did you nefariously obtain it?

4:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They were indeed from seperate suppliers. Maybe you could slip me some of those 'freebies'? A few op's I have in the pipeline would go smoother with them :)
The co-employee for some reason trusted me with their log-on. I put the person on warning that I'd be looking at inappropriate materials with their details; I was still given them :)

8:10 PM  

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