516: Wood Chips
Wood Chips |
Title text: You didn't run a chemical analysis against the Shroud of Turin? Man, all that work for NOTHING. |
Explanation
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The title text suggests that he also set up some kind of chemical match with the Shroud of Turin. The Shroud of Turin is a famous artifact containing the ghostly image of a face said by some to have been used as Jesus's burial cloth.
Transcript
- [Cueball leans on desk; Woman sits behind desk.]
- Cueball: Did you ever figure out those mysterious woodchips?
- Woman: The ones in the hallway? No.
- Cueball: You didn't suspect that they matched the timber used in 1861 to build the "ghost ship" Mary Celeste, prompting you to send them to a lab for analysis, the results of which raised new and stranger questions?
- Woman: No, I threw them out. Why?
- My hoaxes need to get a lot less subtle.
Discussion
The wood chips may be a reference to the 1995 horror movie 'Seven' in which the killer fed wood chips to his victim. Also here the wood chips serve as a starting point for an elaborate scavenger hunt. MrKaizer (talk) 13:18, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Near the end of the explanation is a reference to a test of the Shroud of Turin which "appeared to prove the cloth was medieval in origin (albeit not old enough to have been used by Jesus)." This should say "was medieval in origin and thus not old enough to have been used on the body of Jesus." "Medieval" refers to the Middle Ages, commonly reckoned to cover about 500 to 1500, or in some contexts 1100-1500. As it stands, using "albeit," this sentence is as logical as saying "This equation is relativistic BUT does not go back to Newton." 172.68.54.88 18:04, 21 November 2017 (UTC)