A couple of friends of mine are spending the month of May
traveling through Austria, the Czech Republic and Eastern Germany. I’m acting
as conduit for their electronic postcards, because there appears to be some
difficulty accessing Facebook on his mobile device. So he emails me a photo and
blurb; I post it to FB and then email it to a list of people with whom he
regularly shares jokes.
This one—a photo of Saint Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna—came
with this annotation:
"One of the most
successful public relations creations of all time. By putting Prague's St.
Virus Cathedral in the shade, its creators won archbishopric status that eventually
transformed Vienna from a frontier encampment to the capital of the Holy Roman
Empire."
First of all, I am not in the least making fun of what he
wrote. Because I'm laying big money on the probability that he actually did type “St. Vitus Cathedral”,
but Nanny Autocorrect changed it to St. Virus. Because virus is something it knows; Vitus, not so much.
But thinking about it, it seems to me that there really
ought to be a Saint Virus, perhaps the patron saint of black-hat hackers, venture capitalists and officers of the People’s Liberation Army.
Why not? Saint Vitus is the patron of actors, comedians, dancers
and epileptics. There should be someone looking after their Internet-age
equivalents.
The Roman Catholic Church has been on a real canonization
tear lately. If they’re going declare John Paul II a saint, I think this Virus
guy should get a shot at it, too
Maybe this'll go viral.
Maybe this'll go viral.
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