Back in 1492 the only way to do a search for the land of gold in the new world was getting on the boat and behaving badly.
Luckily with modern technology, this isn't necessary. I seem to have stumbled on the secret of the land of gold, hidden in plain sight.
Obviously the canny natives stashed it all away, and the guarding of it was a hereditary job, passed down grandmother to pet cat, Luckily being passed down father to son was there as a back-up plane to avoid dotty elderly relative syndrome.
Casting our minds back to the 15th century, all it would take is for one absinthe addled printer to mistake the J for an L and suddenly L Dorado, becomes J Dorado. Und zo, the conquistarods (typo, but I decided I prefer it) were looking in totally the wrong kettle of ferrets.
With the power of the internet, ie Facebook, I have discovered a Snr Jose L Dorado of Mexico, which is just a total giveaway...J and L together even, already.
Dan Brown, eat your heart out.-- not_morrison_rm, May 05 2014 Jose L Dorado https://www.facebook.com/josel.dorado.988 [not_morrison_rm, May 05 2014] Gold in Keats doing Chapman doing Homer with conquistador reference http://www.bartleby.com/126/24.html [pertinax, May 08 2014] Tekton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekt%C5%8DnFollow the link quickly, before it's deleted by the Illuminati, or the Templars, or the NSA (run entirely by Freemasons, of course) ... [8th of 7, May 09 2014] no entende nada. (upside down question mark) eh ?-- pashute, May 07 2014 "Ha, ha - 'L' sounds like 'el'!" ... ?
{scans the far horizon in search of the idea}
I suppose you could try looking into Chapman's Homer.-- pertinax, May 08 2014 //Chapman's Homer.
I believe the difficult part was translating "Doh!" from the ancient Greek.-- not_morrison_rm, May 08 2014 I would hear more about these back-up planes.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 08 2014 singular, plane....no one would suspect that the secret was etched onto the blade of the plane, hidden with all the other tools.
Possibly some biblical allegory, Jesus himself being a carpenter. Which might lead us onto the hidden meanings in The Carpenter's songs, but I'm still sober at this point....-- not_morrison_rm, May 09 2014 I just assumed there would be more than one.<tops up [n_m_rm]s' glass>-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 09 2014 Youurr my beshht pal, you are....<slides into unconscious and 2F deploys hidden brain scanner to steal the secret of my quantum loo roll>-- not_morrison_rm, May 09 2014 //Jesus himself being a carpenter //
Actually, that's a mistranslation. In the original Aramaic, the word approximates to "craftsman", but is more correctly translated as "mason"* ...
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*This is actually true. Dan Brown, eat your heart out ...-- 8th of 7, May 09 2014 Don't be silly, [8th]; The Freemasons are in decline. They lost the NSA in a game of cards to...
I'd better tell you this outside.-- pertinax, May 10 2014 //but is more correctly translated as "mason"* ...
A mason eh, hmm, wondered who was working off the cards re-carving them steps at Masada...all hushed up, put it down to a mass suicide, nods as good as a wink, eh? Now, Jericho, that's another one...
<takes off hard-hat, scratches head and lights a handrollie >-- not_morrison_rm, May 10 2014 random, halfbakery