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Knights Templar Sue the Pope
pdragon04 writes "According to The Register, "the Knights Templar are demanding that the Vatican give them back their good name and, possibly, billions in assets into the bargain, 700 years after the order was brutally suppressed by a joint venture between the Pope and the King of France..."." I wonder what a holy grail goes for with 700 years of compound interest.
I'm thinking that 700 years might be a bit past the statute of limitations...
I think the traffic to the register is being redirected to the onion!
If that succeeds, I'm going to rename myself "satan" and then sue the Vatican to get them to give me back my good name.
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to settle.
I think this may be the most surreal headline I've seen all year.
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So, assuming this suceeds ... can the native americans sue europe for defiling their land, and ruining their culture? I mean, if europe hadn't sent over all those rejects, the native americans would rule the (un)known world...
Or, maybe they could just sue the USA for making them look silly - I mean, those native headdresses don't look silly to people who are native - just everyone else.
They go back and *actually* liberate the Holy Land, and *then* the Pope has to pay them all the golden doubloons in Christendom.
10% bonus doubloons for finding the True Cross. On second thoughts, 10% bonus for each True Cross found.
Heck, I'll even chip in a squadron of Turcopoles and some Genoese arbalesters.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
You chose...poorly.
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Is it just my observation, or is eldavojohn an idiot?
Liar!! I've seen national treasure 1 AND 2. C'mon, you're just part of the order, trying to keep all of the other rightful heirs from becoming really rich and buying nice cars.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
But, beware: this lawsuit cannot pass beyond the courts of Spain, for it is effing ridiculous.
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My work here is dung.
Indeed, this seems like a rather desperate call for attention. Besides, everybody knows that the Dark Templar are far more powerful.
Come back here and I'll bite your leg off!
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
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Was The Register hijacked by The Onion or something?... Surreal...
If the Holy See doesn't comply, the warrior knights, renowned for liberating the Holy Land, will deploy that most fearsome of weapons: the Holy Hand Grenade offe Antioch.
May the best Godwin!
"Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
"Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to settle."
Ni!
Ever since Indy has found the holy grail, the guy has nothing better to do.
[...]still standing by for Christianity-bashing and something about open source.
YEAH, how come Jesus didn't post the sermon on the mount for all of us to modify and improve upon instead of dictating it like Microsoft would do?
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
...and I want to sue the whole of Europe for damages.
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How about Sir Roger Moore? He's a Knight, and is famous for playing Simon Templar.
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"Blah blah [vapid knee-jerk complaining about vapid knee-jerk complaining and slashdot groupthink] blah blah," followed by a suggestion of patenting it.
How amateurish! The descendants of those who left came back and took the land from the descendants of those who remained.
I can troll better than you.
Infuriate left and right
Pfft, the Orthodox Church already has Archons.
dont blame just the christians, they simply have a head start on everyone else.
Oh no you don't! We Jews were here long before those Christians! Err wait, we've already had enough blame laid on us over the years, forget I said that.
Allegedly real newspaper headline from 1998:
Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge
How about you refrain from out-retarding your parent poster by using the teenybopper word "Xtian"?
Let's go further than that! Join the Gondwanaland Reunification Movement!
Strike while the irony is hot! -- The Freethinker
YEAH, how come Jesus didn't post the sermon on the mount for all of us to modify and improve upon instead of dictating it like Microsoft would do?
It's pretty obvious that the original source code has been lost, and the current source is a combination of ignorant reverse engineering, clumsy hacks, and viruses.
Satan plays for the Penguins.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
The funny thing is, the whole debate has been going on for centuries, and causing fractures in the church between those factions who believed that Jesus was poor, and so the church should be, and those who believed that having lots of money is really great.
You don't understand. Money is evil, therefore the catholic church tries to make sure they have all of it, so regular people won't have to suffer from it.
The middle one is Luke 12:33.
Would that be AM or PM ?
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are the true Knights Templar, and that we have hidden the treasures of the world beneath a highly recognizable public building (no, not that one).
Claims about us secretly directing the destiny of nations and peoples are greatly exaggerated, though. I've been in fifteen years and still only get to oversee Botswana.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
And if they can actually bring peace to that region, they deserve all the billions they can get.
You'll just be censored as "Hercule" then.
Great. Before we had spelling Nazis and Grammar Nazis, now it's Bible Nazis.
Is nothing sacred?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Satan is a fabric! And I don't know how to spell
Stupidity only gets you so far, then you've gotta try
There should be a "-1 Monty Python and/or Princess Bride" moderation reason...
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand this sig, and those that beat up people who do.
Great. Before we had spelling Nazis and Grammar Nazis, now it's Bible Nazis.
Is nothing sacred?
Off hand, I'd say spelling, grammar, and The Bible.
I hope you're not expecting sympathy...
"If god did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" --Voltaire
The the pope just might have to shit in the woods.
Three things: Spelling, grammar, The Bible, and Monty Python quotes.
I'll come in again.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
It's pronounced SHATTAN.
In more ways than one.
Will you people stop with the misconceptions? Tinfoil hats protect you from CIA/Alien mind control.
The thing that protects [me, anyway] from physical harm at the hands of violent fanatics is the four solid walls, concrete floor, and hardwood ceiling of my mother's basement.
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