# Build The Great Conspiracy **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 11
**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/61828/201 "2001-05-07T23:45:47Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/202 "2001-05-08T00:27:39Z")
…clog up the SDMB with multi-posts and long-running threads. This hideous plan was off to a good start when… ---
**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 8, 2001, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/203 "2001-05-08T01:17:11Z")
…the newly thawed, disembodied head of Walt Disney, who now calls himself Chthulu was seen… ---
**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 8, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/204 "2001-05-08T01:39:54Z")
Finally reveal the true meaning of the fable about the three words that end in “gry”. As everyone knows, “gry” is not only the name of the last remaining living alien living in Roswell but it is also… ---
**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 8, 2001, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/205 "2001-05-08T01:41:52Z")
hitchhiking down Interstate 80 according to John Crankshaw, 42, of Peoria, Illinois. Official sources deny Crankshaw’s claims as “preposterous,” “unfounded in reality,” and a “shitwagon full of shit.” The truth, however, … ---
**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 8, 2001, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/206 "2001-05-08T01:44:24Z")
(dammit. last post NOT in response to Mermaid, but previous post.) ---
**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 8, 2001, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/207 "2001-05-08T01:44:30Z")
The entity which hides several responses to a thread thereby tricking unsuspecting mermaids into posting a seemingly out of order reply which ultimately signals the start of… ---
**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 8, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/208 "2001-05-08T01:56:19Z")
absolutely nothing of any significance, actually. However, back at the megaultrasuperdupersecret Masonic Temple in the fabled underwater city of Atlantis, “gry” is revealed to be … ---
**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/209 "2001-05-08T02:01:33Z")
the Middle Part of the Beginning of the Last Days of Middle Earth, as predicted by Nostradamus, channeling thru Socks, the ex-White House cat, who told Pres. Clinton that … ---
**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 8, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/210 "2001-05-08T02:01:34Z")
…the 2001 Summer Olympics. Of course, FOX will be broadcasting the event on a delayed feed which means that we won’t be able to see any of it until mid-November between 2 and 5 a.m. All you need to do in order to force the network to broadcast live is contact your congressional representatives and demand… ---
**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 8, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/211 "2001-05-08T02:10:11Z")
I was replying to Mermaid’s last post. You two should take a breather and let somebody else play for a while 🙂 ---
**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 8, 2001, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/212 "2001-05-08T02:16:23Z")
that the works of Kilgore Trout become standard reading material in schools, for the purpose of… ---
**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/213 "2001-05-08T23:56:45Z")
introducing “cat’s cradle” as the National String Game, sending the yo-yo faction packing, as everyone knows cat’s cradle is … [sub] **Attrayant** sorry about the apparent interruption, but the Board was responding slower that Dubya to a question without DC to whisper the answer[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![projecttwilight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@projecttwilight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/projecttwilight)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2001, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/214 "2001-05-09T08:20:23Z")
…an ancient tradition stated by aliens from… ---
**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 9, 2001, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/215 "2001-05-09T14:21:13Z")
…Mexico who crossed the border illegally to escape the curse of the Chupacabra. Unfortunately they have also brought with them a fatal Mexican disease that, if spread through out the North American public, will result in… ---
**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 9, 2001, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/216 "2001-05-09T23:28:17Z")
the average IQ dropping 25 points. This will please the… ---
**Author:** ![aviddiva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aviddiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aviddiva)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/217 "2001-05-10T21:27:34Z")
… The American Association to Elect Dan Quayle for President. The AAEDQP, flagging due to the success of a certain simian-controlled animatronic construct, has been… ---
**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 11, 2001, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/218 "2001-05-11T16:38:48Z")
…lacing campaign contribution envelopes with traces of RU-486 in orer to lower the birth rate of the middle class (who are more likely to lick envelopes manually than use a postage meter) and subequently shrink the size of the democratic voting bloc. With the public voting republican in larger numbers than ever before in history, the government will finally… ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/219 "2001-05-11T17:39:55Z")
…elect a Libertarian to the Presidency. At the Inaugural Ball, the new President will be revaled to be Howdy Doody[sub]tm[/sub], the puppet controlled by… ---
**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 11, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828/220 "2001-05-11T21:56:54Z")
Cecil Adams himself. Under the grandfather clause, all members of the SDMB would become… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-the-great-conspiracy/61828.md?page=12)