British police raid pub in search for "Holy Grail"

On second thoughts, let's not go to the pub. 'Tis a silly place.

(Un)holy fail.

I can't believe people still believe these ludicrous fairy tales in 2014.

Monty Python skexch?

Call them legends, or traditions, or beliefs, but down through the centuries, British Christians have variously regarded Glastonbury as the site that Jesus visited as a boy; the location of a holy thorn tree whose descendants still bloom at Christmas; the place where Mary took refuge after the crucifixion and where she may be buried, and - perhaps most hauntingly - the resting place of the Holy Grail, the cup or chalice from which Christ drank at the Last Supper.

Compare to an earlier story:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5018294/Pub-evacuated-after-Monty-Python-prop-mistaken-for-grenade.html

Should've told them:

"I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries."

A nice bit of nonsense. I like this kind of thing. The lyrics to 'Jerusalem' are also as cracked as this holy grail. I remember singing it at school without paying any attention to the words. It's as nuts at Mormonism.

@Jimizo

Jerusalem nonsense? How dare you, Sir?

It's actually "And did those feet in ancient time", a poem by Blake. Far from being "nuts", it asks a series of questions about the legend that Jesus came to England. It's a probing, inquisitive poem.

And it gave us "green and pleasant land", "dark Satanic mills", and "chariots of fire".

Not bad for a sixteen-line poem!

Rubbish. Everyone knows that Jesus is buried here in Japan in nearby Shingo Aomori.

and didn't Indiana jones already find this and leave it buried under tons of rubble?

I wonder if they ever found the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Blake's"Jerusalem' (as it is currently referred to) is a beautiful fanciful poem but I not see how it relates to the Holy Grail legend.

How many quests has the Grail sparked?

And an object suspected of being the Grail is just sitting around in a house in Herefordshire.waiting to be stolen? Never thought to lock it up in a safe?

'Blake's"Jerusalem' (as it is currently referred to) is a beautiful fanciful poem but I not see how it relates to the Holy Grail legend.'

It doesn't. I was just giving an example of the kind of legends I find wonderful.

@luca I was in no way denigrating the great William Blake. An oddball for sure but a true radical and campaigner for social justice who would have no doubt approved of your idea of a socialist republic of Upper England and Wales. Can you believe the likes of Lady Diana Spencer were far higher up on the list than this incredible man on polls of the greatest English people ever lived? Truly depressing.

Do you think it would help if we ran away further? Or should we stay and have another pint?

Parody news on JT?

“We get a few rogues and scallywags in the pub..."

I bet!

"... but no one who’s quite on the level of stealing a priceless ancient artefact”

Something is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.