# Bring Your Pet Conspiracy Theories To Work Day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 14, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061 "2007-04-14T04:09:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061/81 "2007-04-18T00:23:18Z")
[QUOTE=kung fu lola] I took a sick day on Monday, but apparently he wouldn’t stop going on and on about Djinn (or however you spell it). [/QUOTE] 😕 What, [djinn?!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djinn) Is he also scared of leprechauns?! ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061/82 "2007-04-18T00:35:11Z")
A coworker tried to convince me that the contaminated pet food was a terrorist plot. I hate her. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061/83 "2007-04-18T01:11:36Z")
[Here is the relevant passage from your link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djinn#Jinn_in_Islam), **BrainGlutton**. He insists that when people THINK they are seeing ghosts, they are actually seeing djinn. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061/84 "2007-04-18T02:17:31Z")
[QUOTE=Annie] Tin foil ball gags! [/QUOTE] I just thought someone should point out just how evil that is. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061/85 "2007-04-18T02:37:23Z")
[QUOTE=Pullet] A coworker tried to convince me that the contaminated pet food was a terrorist plot. I hate her. [/QUOTE] [Guess what . . .](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=416892) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061/86 "2007-04-18T02:42:15Z")
[QUOTE=tashabot] I love conspiracy theories! I wish they could be true every day, but sadly, I cannot bring myself to believe in them. I mean, how could would it be if the Illuminati, Area 51 and the Da Vinci Code were all somehow real? Not so much in the “I Told You So!” sense, but wouldn’t that just be awesome, in the grand scheme of things? Not that there aren’t government cover-ups, mind you. They tend to be a lot more mundane, like altering records. If you look at my father’s original military records, which he has in his possession, and compare them to the ones that the military will surrender if subpoena’d, there’s quite a difference, from what drugs they gave him to what caused his hearing loss. But a mass cover-up like Roswell I just can’t believe in. And dammit, I wish I could! Sometimes, I think the insane people definitely have it better. I wish I could say that foil was always in style. ~Tasha [/QUOTE] Sounds like you would enjoy [_The Illuminatus Trilogy!_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminatus)🙂 And anything else by the sainted [Robert Anton Wilson.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson) ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061/87 "2007-04-18T03:31:50Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] I just thought someone should point out just how evil that is. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but evil in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061/88 "2007-04-18T06:10:15Z")
[QUOTE=tashabot] I love conspiracy theories! I wish they could be true every day, but sadly, I cannot bring myself to believe in them. I mean, how could would it be if the Illuminati, Area 51 and the Da Vinci Code were all somehow real? Not so much in the “I Told You So!” sense, but wouldn’t that just be awesome, in the grand scheme of things? [/QUOTE] I don’t recall who originally posted a link to this [t-shirt site](http://www.zazzle.com/jurgen9/product/235056887754392714) on the Dope, nor what thread it was in, but I think you’d enjoy this. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061/89 "2007-04-19T06:13:38Z")
[QUOTE=kung fu lola] snip… constant quoting of _Borat_… [/QUOTE] Well there ya go. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061/90 "2007-04-19T18:27:41Z")
[QUOTE=kung fu lola] [Here is the relevant passage from your link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djinn#Jinn_in_Islam), **BrainGlutton**. He insists that when people THINK they are seeing ghosts, they are actually seeing djinn. [/QUOTE] Yeh, well, drink enough gin and you’ll a **lotta** things, but what would a Muslim know about that? ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061/91 "2007-04-19T19:40:25Z")
[QUOTE=kung fu lola] I think the point of it is that it is a small part of the Giant Jewish Conspiracy To Control All Tha Bux. [/QUOTE] I converted to Judaism in 2003. **I’m still waiting** to get my share of money and power that all these conspiracy theorists know that Jews have. It’s not a very well-run international conspiracy, which explains so much about the way the world is… > [@MEBuckner](#): > > Wait, wait, wait–George Bush and Queen Elizabeth are the same extraterrestrial lizard? Nah, it’s Cheney who is the lizard. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061/92 "2007-04-19T20:00:23Z")
Camo skirt, huh? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Millamant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@Mrs.Millamant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Millamant)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061/93 "2007-04-19T21:16:17Z")
[QUOTE=Anne Neville] I converted to Judaism in 2003. **I’m still waiting** to get my share of money and power that all these conspiracy theorists know that Jews have. [/QUOTE] Try being born a Jew and never getting any money or power, or even a “My tribe rules…the world!” t-shirt. Such a let-down! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-your-pet-conspiracy-theories-to-work-day/400061.md?page=4)