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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terath Ninir" data-source="post: 1994956" data-attributes="member: 47">First off, Spoony Bard (known here under his devious pseudonym of Michael Morris): Grow a sense of humour already!  Hmm.  Now that is a theory I hadn't heard.  That would be much easier to control, and create a much more reliable "product".  Dunno why I didn't think of that myself; it seems such a logical idea...Thanks.  I couldn't remember that at all.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I just flat don't believe it was done with chemicals.  Chemicals leave residues, and chemistry back in the 13th or 14th centurey *sucked*.  Maybe they could have done it, but my studies into alchemy give me little confidence in their abilities.  I could still be wrong, but I think a scorch is more likely.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Okay, here's why I flat out don't believe the di Vinci connection: I have done fairly extensive studies in linguistics.  Now, that would seem totally unimportant to this case, but bear with me.  Trivia books often include origin stories for words.  If those stories involve a famous person, chances are good the story isn't true.  If the story is exciting, I can pretty much guarantee the story isn't true.  The more boring the story, the more likely it is to be true.I have found that this property of linguistic history applies to other types of history.  Your theory involves Leonardo di Vinci, one of the most famous people in all of history.  Your theory also involves a *very* exciting storyline -- with forgery and conspiracy.  (Having also studied conspiracies quite a bit, the fact that a conspiracy would be involved *also* makes the story unlikely.)  All in all, it's way too fun and exciting to be true.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  But it makes for a lovely storyline, especially given all the varied reasons WHY Leonardo di Vinci would be forging a then semi-obscure religious relic.</blockquote>

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