the Internet is finished -- we can all go home

I refuse to believe this.

The Association of the Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ (better known as the Knights Templar) have just launched a legal action against the Pope: among other things they want him to recognize the seizure of assets worth an estimated €100Bn, and restore the good name of the order. (More here.)

No. Just, no. This is too silly. Back in 2001 we obviously changed Cosmic Scriptwriter, with a new team consisting of the ghosts of Eric Blair and Philip K. Dick taking over from the previous incumbents -- but this? The Pythons aren't even dead, yet! (Well, most of them.)

I didn't reproduce the links -- go to Charlie's blog to check them out. But that's the entirety of the post. And it's a good, geeky post: it hits current events and comments on them via multiple pop-culture references, including some deeply literary ones.

But it's in the comments that geek nirvana is achieved. There, we find referenced:

• cynicism about Hollywood marketing practices
• the nature of God
• YouTube
• goofy advertising
• the concept of parallel worlds
• the mortgage meltdown
• a geek meme spun off from The Simpsons
• the French
• Doctor Who
• the history of the Catholic Church
• Wikipedia
• propeller beanies
• the differences between zeppelins, blimbs, and dirigibles, complete with cheerfully nerdish squabbling over them
• classic rock
• Indiana Jones

Need I even mention that (at least as of this writing) there are exactly 42 comments in the thread?

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