# Build The Great Conspiracy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 13, 2001, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828 "2001-04-13T12:57:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/181 "2001-05-06T19:51:26Z")

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Marilyn Vos Savant, who then attempted to…

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**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/182 "2001-05-06T20:27:32Z")

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improve on the existing robotic animatronic George Bushes by intorducing…

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**Author:** ![The\_Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/183 "2001-05-06T21:31:34Z")

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a new line of moisturizing hand cream, which slowly transforms the users into pop-idols. The ultimate goal of turning the populace into a bunch of Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake wannabees is…

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**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/184 "2001-05-06T23:12:32Z")

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succeeding, although mostly among the 16-25- bracket because most of these people secretly want to be in a band. The alarming rise of groups such as Eden’s Crush; Dream; and LFO is one of the top 20 signs of the Apocalypse, according to “Billboard” magazine which also predicted…

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**Author:** ![projecttwilight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@projecttwilight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/projecttwilight)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/185 "2001-05-07T00:36:57Z")

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…that Greenland would conquer the world in 1997. This prediction was false, of course, a rumor started by…

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/186 "2001-05-07T00:58:04Z")

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…the Icelandic Republican Army. But when their fiendish plan failed, they all moved to Ireland where they were pleased that they didn’t have to change the monograms on their new blazers.

And speaking of handerchiefs…

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/187 "2001-05-07T01:24:44Z")

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one was found with the name Amelia Earhart embroidered on it near Stonehenge, which could only mean…

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**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/188 "2001-05-07T01:33:27Z")

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…that Uri Geller is conspiring with the Bavarian Illuminati to…

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**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/189 "2001-05-07T02:45:56Z")

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…to finally reveal what really happened in Lizzie Borden’s house and prove that is was actually a spoon that inflicted the mortal injuries and not the so called ‘axe’, there by explaining…

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**Author:** ![Folkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Folkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folkie)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/190 "2001-05-07T02:58:51Z")

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that Mary Poppins’ song about “a Spoonful of Sugar” was  
actually early Goth Rock, and “Let’s Go Fly A Kite” was  
really about…

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**Author:** ![The\_Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/191 "2001-05-07T03:03:52Z")

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Jack Chick, whose tracts are actually communications between the International Communist Conspiracy and…

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**Author:** ![projecttwilight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@projecttwilight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/projecttwilight)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/192 "2001-05-07T05:31:52Z")

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…“actor” Timothy Dalton, who is actually undercover for…

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**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/193 "2001-05-07T06:58:00Z")

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…seven years, in a research project to determine the real ingredient list for Twinkies. It’s not what you think. But unfortunately, he was discovered…

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**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/194 "2001-05-07T07:25:49Z")

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in the remains of the Confederate sub Hunley, which was recently brought to the surface off Charleston by . . .

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/195 "2001-05-07T11:43:18Z")

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one-hundred fifty thousand genetically modified minnow, and a goldfish or two. This technology …

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/196 "2001-05-07T12:17:38Z")

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…has recently been declassified by the Pentagon and sold to a company in Redmond, Washington. Because of this you can soon expect to be paying well over $3.00 a gallon for…

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/197 "2001-05-07T15:20:26Z")

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the Helsinki Formula specially formulated to help stop men with …

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**Author:** ![The\_Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/198 "2001-05-07T22:35:05Z")

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foot fetishes. This has hindered their plan to…

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**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/199 "2001-05-07T23:39:19Z")

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return the currency to the gold standard, although the Illuminati would prefer that the currency of the United Stated be tied to the value of platinum. In another conspiracy theory, illegally cloned SDMB moderators, succceding in having killed off most of the leaders of China’s Communist party, then planned to…

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**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/200 "2001-05-07T23:45:47Z")

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return the currency to the gold standard, although the Illuminati would prefer that the currency of the United Stated be tied to the value of platinum. In another conspiracy theory, illegally cloned SDMB moderators, succceding in having killed off most of the leaders of China’s Communist party, then planned to…

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