# Is there really a Chunnel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773 "2001-02-16T17:56:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/1 "2001-02-16T17:56:58Z")
[This thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=60155) and [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=43098) and the Fox special “documentary” on the moon landing got me thinking. What other big construction projects might be hoaxes. The Chunnel comes to mind. How do we really know that there’s a tunnel under the English Channel? Maybe the pictures are faked. Maybe all the people who worked on the project lied about it. I did some research on the subject. You can find the results of my research here at my [Great Chunnel Hoax web page.](http://resnet.iup.edu/don/ChunnelHoax.html) How do we know that there is really a Hoover Dam? Any other hoaxes that can be revealed right here on the SDMB? We are fighting ignorance, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/2 "2001-02-16T18:10:25Z")
I do find it slightly suspect that King Poseidon tore himself away from his troubles with Ariel to give you a quote, but I suppose “The Chunnel” would give him enough of a reason. Did he have anything to say about releasing the Kraken? ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Plankton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Dave\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/3 "2001-02-16T18:51:18Z")
I think the Chunnel exists, but I think that France is a hoax. I reckon it takes you to a channel island where they speak a made up language. ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/4 "2001-02-16T18:59:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dave Plankton \* > \*\*I think the Chunnel exists, but I think that France is a hoax. I reckon it takes you to a channel island where they speak a made up language. \*\* Are you suggesting that the Chunnel actually goes to Belgium? That’s just silly. Everybody knows that there’s no Belgium. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/5 "2001-02-16T19:32:46Z")
Foolish deluded one! Most certainly the Chunnel exists, for it was built by the Knights Templar. This I KNOW! Oh, and Belgium has to exist, because it makes excellent chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/6 "2001-02-16T19:48:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Celyn \* > \*\* > Oh, and Belgium has to exist, because it makes excellent chocolate. \*\* Oh yeah? So then name 10 famous Belgians. You can’t, can you? ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/7 "2001-02-16T20:52:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Oh yeah? So then name 10 famous Belgians. > > You can’t, can you? \*\* Let’s see . . . 1. Hercules Poirot. Oh, wait he’s a _fictional_ character. Makes one think, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Hiro\_Protagonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@Hiro\_Protagonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hiro_Protagonist)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/8 "2001-02-16T21:07:24Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Alessan \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Oh yeah? So then name 10 famous Belgians. > > You can’t, can you? \*\* I can! There’s Jim and Bobby and Alice and Fred and Stewie and Patrick and Scott and Steve and Conrad… um… that’s only nine isn’t it? Okay! I’m stumped. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/9 "2001-02-16T21:15:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LateComer \* > \*\*Everybody knows that there’s no Belgium. > \*\* Then where do my waffles come from? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/10 "2001-02-16T21:16:39Z")
King Albert or whatever his name was, the guy who led the Belgian army against the Germans in WWI and croaked moutain climbing later. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/11 "2001-02-16T22:05:02Z")
I bleeding well hope so. If not, that was a very realistic reconstruction of a tunnel that I travelled through last November, and the fake Paris set was very convincing too. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/12 "2001-02-16T22:11:47Z")
Famous Belgians: Enzo Scifo, Joos Vaelgaeren, the Singing Nun, Plastic Bertrand. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/13 "2001-02-16T22:22:46Z")
Jean-Claude Van Damme Heironymous Bosch Liz Claiborne Father Damien King Leopold III Rene Magritte Peter Paul Rubens Adolphe Sax Nope, I can’t get to 10 either. And it is Hercule Poirot. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/14 "2001-02-16T22:54:40Z")
Well, we’ve already proved conclusively that [Delaware does not exist](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=35621). If _they_ could impose a conspiracy as large as the fictional Delaware on us, the Chunnel and the Moon Landing are small potatos. I didn’t realize about Belgum, though. That’s a good one. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/15 "2001-02-17T01:28:26Z")
Holland is still real, right? Right? _Hello… ?_ [sub]Cue **Pink Floyd** s _“Is there anybody out there?”_[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/16 "2001-02-17T01:54:09Z")
I cannot believe the friendly Eurostar people lied to me…and the fake Paris…and the fake Louvre…I am so disillusioned…I haven’t cried this much since Wham broke up… (yes, I’ve been on it 3 times. It’s neat, but it’s also a yawner at the same time.) ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/17 "2001-02-17T02:22:35Z")
Does this mean the BART train doesn’t really run underneath San Francisco Bay either??? ---
**Author:** ![quasar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@quasar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quasar)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/18 "2001-02-17T04:37:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alessan \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Celyn \* > > \*\* > > Oh, and Belgium has to exist, because it makes excellent chocolate. \*\* > > Oh yeah? So then name 10 famous Belgians. > > You can’t, can you? \*\* Jean Marie Paff–sp?-- 9 to go. Are you sure there are more than 10 belgians on this planet? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/19 "2001-02-17T05:18:38Z")
James Ensor and Herge. There, we’re at 11. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/20 "2001-02-17T07:00:43Z")
Of course there’s a Chunnel. The Beloved and I have been in it. We got on the train in Paris, and away we went. I remember we were reading, and they we went into this dark part - that was the Chunnel. Then we fell asleep. When we woke up, we were in London - no fuss, no muss, except for the little red puncture marks the Beloved and I each had on our arms. Hey, wait a minute… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773.md?page=2)