The Truth About Vin Diesel

Check out the random Vin Diesel fact generator here, which will tell you interesting facts about Vin that you probably never knew, including:

"Vin invented Spandex solely for the purpose of giving the technology to superheroes, when Nike heard this they sent in a team of commandos to steal the technology and then kill Vin. Vin killed them all except for one, the man who escaped with the formula for spandex. That man is Danny Devito."

"Vin Diesel is the third Olsen Twin."

"Vin Diesel was in India one day 2500 years ago and found some guy meditating under his favorite tree. Vin explained the nature of reality, karma and reincarnation to the man, who gained total enlightenment as a result. Then Vin said "Now get the Fuck away from my tree.""

"Contrary to popular belief, Vin Diesel's balls cannot be used as a life raft. They can however be used as a sea anchor for large cruise ships."

"Vin Diesel and Casper Van Diem are actually a superhero team that only fights crime in Toledo, Ohio between the 1:33pm and 4:39pm. Only 5 people in the free world know the reason for this."

"Vin Diesel once drank an entire keg of lemonade with his penis. Just to prove he could do it."

"Dan Brown was originally going to call his book "The Da Vin Diesel Code" but decided that would give the game away too much."

What I am Reeding - Da Da Vinci Code

The mystery thriller is a genre that thrives on characters who are more cliché than realistic, plot devices that require an inordinate amount of suspension of disbelief, obvious facts that everyone can ascertain except for the character who needs to know it the most, important information left out of the story and then conveniently placed at the end to provide for the surprise twist, and not all plot lines being brought to a successful conclusion by the time the story is over.

Sadly, despite the massive critical acclaim this book has had, amid the controversy of its subject matter, Dan Brown doesn't actually avoid all these potholes and on occasion goes tumbling into them arse over tit.

Okay, the basic premise of the book if fairly solid - the curator of the Louver is found murdered and he has left a series of seemingly impenetrable clues as to the identity of his murderer and leading historian Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu on a treasure hunt of seemingly impenetrable clues in the hunt for the Holy Grail, that clearly is not what it appears to be.
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