That it’s a hoax.
I never even realized that this was a woo thing. I just thought everyone knew it was a fancy type of vandalism.
Nooooo!! These are a real thing. They are on the cover of Led Zeppelins Complete Collection. Jimmy Page knows stuff :eek:
Didn’t our own ianzin claim to have made a few crop circles in his day?
Nevertheless, it’s a woo thing.
You Floridians and your silly superstitions. The Skunk Ape is a myth, not like the very real Hodag. Hoax my ass, once again, Wikipedia gets it wrong.
Hey, I’d like to visit a Crop Circle museum! Who cares if they’re fake…I’ve enjoyed visits to UFO and Bigfoot museums even though I don’t particularly believe in the reality of the subject matter.
The Crop Circle Information and Co-ordination Centre is still functioning and has only just launched a new visitor pass scheme (yes, really!).
No need even to suspend your disbelief. Like all the best crap tourist traps, it is especially enjoyable when you can fully savour the inherent ridiculousness.
I don’t believe aliens made them, but I can enjoy the artistry in some of the larger more elaborate ones. Some of them took serious amounts of planning to lay out and accomplish.
Holy shit, the hodag has a Wikipedia entry? Wonders never will cease, it seems.
The only reason people figured out how to make crop circles is because they studied the ones the aliens made.
Kilroy was out there.
I’ve read a travelogue by the late David Rakoff in which he described *two *Nessie museums there - the one full of exhibits about how it could all be real, and another explaining how it’s all fake and who did it.
There is also this: Center-pivot irrigation - Wikipedia
Freakin’ Genius, I say!
Ok, so here’s my respectful hijack: what on earth did you do with the wheat? I admit don’t really have a comprehension of souvenirs like this. I buy souvenirs occasionally but they are always “useful” things - these days fridge magnets work really well. But people seem to want anything for a souvenir. A strand of wheat?! What do you do with that ten or fifteen years down the road? (I know what I do with it - throw it away).
Anaamika-
The Wife and I collect sand on vacations. We tend to go to islands or other sea-side destinations. Over the past few years we have gotten into the habit of drinking a bottle of the local beer, then filling the bottle with sand from the beach.
I can imagine a wheat collector operating the same way, although the grain may need a hand-written label.
There’s a store near me for people who do that, except it’s hops, not wheat. I guess the idea is that someone will dissolve the hops in a liquid, and then seal it in a bottle. And you can collect ones from all over the world.
Come to think of it, there are quite a few stores like that. Must be a very popular hobby.
But then what do you do with the bottles? Just display them somewhere?
I thought once of collecting dirt from all of the places I’ve been. But I am so not a collector and probably would just end up throwing it away after a few years. Dirt’s dirt. Sand’s sand.
He’s messing with you. He’s talking about beer 
They are in the hutch in the kitchen, along with the vintage cocktail shakers and martini glasses.