The other DaVinci CodeFollow

Remember the legal case in London where The Holy Blood & The Holy Grail authors claimed Dan Brown nicked their ideas?

Well the judge, Peter Smith QC, has a sense of humoUr.

Linky to his formal judgement (quite a chunky pdf download)

In the "Setting the Scene" section you might notice some apparently random italics. Not so random if you check

Later on are more, but these seem to be coded. . . .

It'th a Mythtery! If anyone's into that sort of thing it might be an amusing challenge.

But of course.

A British judge found a defendant Guilty. The defendent shouted to the Judge "You Cu[/Beige]nt!"

The judge replied "Hmm. After I've sentenced you I'm going home where my wife will have cooked dinner. We'll probably enjoy a nice bottle of wine, and perhaps she might entertain me in our soft, comfortable bed.
You, on the other hand, are going to prison. Now which one of us is the Cu[Beige]nt?"



Can't be ***** finding the link but it was on the news recently.

MIght need to become an expat, I.

Our judges are paid to be witty too:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0306061billy1.html

For some reason I can just picture you an inch from your screen trying to figure out "THE NEXt FUC[Darkcyan][/Darkcyan]KING LETTER!"