# Just asking: What is, to you, the strangest fake website you've ever encountered? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894 "2024-08-19T01:48:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/1 "2024-08-19T01:48:38Z")
By “strangest”, it’s not just the most bizarre, but perhaps one that had the largest number of views and people STILL didn’t pick up on it being fake? We all (well, most of us) know that The Onion and Babylon Bee are fake, but also out there, I’ve seen [medicaladoptions.com](http://medicaladoptions.com), and more recently, True Crime Case Files and some allied channels have popped up on YouTube, and it boggles my mind how many people have fallen for this. I knew the “medical adoptions” website was fake when it mentioned that people had adopted a Third World child in order to get their spleen; that organ isn’t transplanted. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/2 "2024-08-19T01:51:46Z")
This one’s a classic from the early days of “content that was probably written by a bot and/or Google Translate”; > **[The Rumor Come Out: Does Bruno Mars is Gay? - Bruno Mars](https://brunomars.us/rumor-come-bruno-mars-gay/)** > > Bruno Mars is gay is the most discussed in the media in the few years ago. Even it has happened in 2012, but some of the public still curious about what is exactly happening and to be the reason there is a rumor comes out about his gay. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/3 "2024-08-19T01:53:46Z")
[Bonsai kittens.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai_Kitten) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/4 "2024-08-19T01:56:51Z")
This would have to rank up there with “Birds Aren’t Real.” ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/5 "2024-08-19T01:58:42Z")
I SWEAR I read a website (or something about sitcom fathers) devoted to the presumably nonexistent sitcom _Roger That_ (Roger was an air traffic controller or something, and he had a daughter, Jenny That) but now I can’t find any trace of its existence. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/6 "2024-08-19T02:35:16Z")
Early days of my experience with the Web, and I was intrigued by the web site for “The Republic of Baker, Howland and Jarvis”, three islands in the Pacific. That had been developed as a guano and coconut resource after WWII, and grew to be an Amelia Earhart tourist destination, as well as eco-scuba center. I had to check the Wiki pages of each of these islands to convince myself it wasn’t a thriving, idyllic island community. I was so delighted at the sheer amount of detail, and the time that was spent on this! Tourist Information, Sightseeing, Travel Info page with which airlines service the island nation, a Banking & Investment page, and Fast Facts (1,170 permanent residents, with over 1,400 more people visiting the islands each month. Only the Vatican City, with a population of 840, has a smaller population). I was so disappointed when the web site sank beneath the digital waves. eta: Oh, be still my heart. Last time I checked, it hadn’t been archived… and now it has: [https://web.archive.org/web/20051231125314/http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/RHBJ.htm](https://web.archive.org/web/20051231125314/http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/RHBJ.htm) Do click on Tourist Info. It’s a lot of fun… [https://web.archive.org/web/20051225084510/http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/hbTourist.htm](https://web.archive.org/web/20051225084510/http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/hbTourist.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/7 "2024-08-19T03:37:16Z")
> **[The Official Kresky Home Page](http://kreskytv.com/)** > > Kresky - Join us in a fond remembrance of the quintessential 70's crime drama and our favorite TV detective. > _For four and a half seasons, from September of 1976 to November of 1980, ultra-cool undercover cop Nicholas David Kresky took us on a wild roller coaster ride through the hip discos, gritty back alleys and dark criminal dens of LA’s seamy underbelly – and we wouldn’t have missed a minute of it! For one hour every week, we cheered, gasped and held our breath while our hero walked that razor’s edge between life and death, love and loss, style and substance._ > > _Whether he was chasing a street punk up a fire escape or romancing a lovely lady in his hot tub, Kresky was always the very epitome of character, class and cool._ > > _Heart of a cop. Soul of a lover. Feet of a dancer. An icon for the 70’s and – in our estimation – a role model for the 21st century. We hope you enjoy this humble tribute to our candidate for top TV cop, the inimitable… [Nick Kresky](http://kreskytv.com/Premise.html)_ Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/8 "2024-08-19T03:41:56Z")
Thank you for this! One of my hobbies is _micronations_. And, as it turns out, there’s even a term for that endeavor: [_micropatriology_ or _micropatrology_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation). (The link goes to Wikpedia.) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/9 "2024-08-19T03:47:45Z")
I assume that you’re aware of the Master’s entries on the subject. > **[How do I go about starting my own country?](https://www.straightdope.com/21341955/how-do-i-go-about-starting-my-own-country)** I remember this particular column because the person who submitted the question is, shall we say, very close to me. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/10 "2024-08-19T03:56:19Z")
Yes, and I’m still juvenile enough that this bit from the column cracks me up: > And don’t leave the premises to go to the bathroom, either — see number 2 above. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/11 "2024-08-19T04:15:56Z")
I don’t know if this counts, but I’ve seen some videos on YouTube that show “animal lovers” from rights groups cleaning barnacles off of sea turtles. Some time ago, at least a year, there were a lot of them and then they disappeared suddenly, with some saying they had been photoshopped. Now I’m seeing them again. I commented that it looked fake and was warned not to make comments like that or I would be banned from YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/12 "2024-08-19T15:01:44Z")
I remember a fairly extensive web site many years ago for Steve McQueen State University in Papillon ND. It was obviously a joke but was very well done. I’ve tried looking for it a few times many years later but all I come up with is a Facebook group, not the actual website. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/13 "2024-08-19T15:38:30Z")
You gotta give. [https://getcalicocutpants.com/](https://getcalicocutpants.com/) I think if you didn’t know that was fake, it would be one of the stranger online stores you’d run across. Who wants pants with pee stains on them? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/14 "2024-08-19T16:37:42Z")
That is hilarious. Love the complete and utter lack of explanation (and hey! Flash Sale, Up to 60% off Pants & Belts for Summer!) That reminded me of penisland. Hey, it’s still there: > **[Home](https://www.penisland.net/index.html)** > > Pen Island Pens - Home One of the FAQs is: _Q: Can I provide my own wood?_ A: In most cases we can handle your wood. We do require all shipments to be clean, free of parasites and pass all standard customs inspections. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/15 "2024-08-19T17:11:45Z")
It’s not a great fake in that I don’t think anyone believed it was anything other than a parody of the [dot.com](http://dot.com) boom 1.0, but just due to longevity I’ll give it credit. Welcome to… [Zombo.com](https://www.zombo.com)! ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/16 "2024-08-19T17:12:33Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Who wants pants with pee stains on them? Well, they’re all sold out ! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/17 "2024-08-19T17:16:34Z")
> [@digs](#): > > That is hilarious. Love the complete and utter lack of explanation (and hey! Flash Sale, Up to 60% off Pants & Belts for Summer!) For context, it’s from I Think You Should Leave. > [@pjd](#): > > Well, they’re all sold out ! That’s because they’re so popular. Sorry, the only place I can find [the sketch](https://www.tiktok.com/@ityslshorts/video/7264701408283282730?lang=en) (or most of it) is on Tik Tok https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7264701408283282730 ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/18 "2024-08-19T18:28:33Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > I SWEAR I read a website (or something about sitcom fathers) devoted to the presumably nonexistent sitcom _Roger That_ (Roger was an air traffic controller or something, and he had a daughter, Jenny That) but now I can’t find any trace of its existence. Try [Roger That! Show Premiere | Furniture University | Roger + Chris](https://www.rogerandchris.com/blog/176/roger-that-show-premiere). Sadly the website is having trouble loading the first show of the series. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/19 "2024-08-19T18:36:51Z")
No, that’s not it; it wasn’t about [home decorating](https://web.archive.org/web/20160410040755/http://www.rogerthat.tv/about-the-show/), it was a sitcom. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894/20 "2024-08-20T18:16:13Z")
Well, this website is real. As far as I can tell you can actually order the clothes. The fake part of it is that Lockheed Martin has absolutely nothing to do with them, and I have no idea why a Korean company would want to try to morph a company that supplies military equipment into a lifestyle brand. > **[Lockheedmartin apparel | 록히드마틴 어패럴](https://lockheedmartinapparel.co.kr/)** > > Lockheed Martin Apparel | 록히드마틴 어패럴 공식 온라인스토어 | Complete your everyday but witty and special style by freely digesting future-oriented clothing. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-asking-what-is-to-you-the-strangest-fake-website-youve-ever-encountered/1005894.md?page=2)