# So, I met a conspiracy nut yesterday **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 27, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238 "2003-12-27T07:39:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/41 "2003-12-28T06:06:08Z")
Wow, That is a bad, stupid conspiracy. 30 million Canadians \* 1 million dollars comes out to 30 TRILLION dollars, thrice the American GDP. Of course, if those were Canadian dollars, well, it wouldn’t be as much of a problem . . . 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/42 "2003-12-28T06:08:35Z")
Hey–does that mean that I could move to Canada and become an instant millionaire! Heck, sign me up! ---
**Author:** ![xayoz306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xayoz306](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xayoz306)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/43 "2003-12-28T06:17:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DreadCthulhu \* > \*\*Wow, That is a bad, stupid conspiracy. 30 million Canadians \* 1 million dollars comes out to 30 TRILLION dollars, thrice the American GDP. Of course, if those were Canadian dollars, well, it wouldn’t be as much of a problem . . . 😉 \*\* And of course, it was the Canadian PM who rejected the idea??? C’mon, what type of elected official is that…LOL ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/44 "2003-12-28T07:36:41Z")
I wanna be a pirate too! OOOOOOOOOOOO! WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA? UNCL-VINY! I even have a plastic hook around here somwhere, I would make a really good pirate…please!. unclviny (aaarrrggghhh!) (do not! let this whack-job move in, in my experience crazy people are not good bill payers) ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/45 "2003-12-28T08:03:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Unintentionally Blank \* > \*\*And here I figured 9/11 was the single biggest example that Big Brother ISN’T that coordinated and DOESN’T know everything about everything everybody’s doing. > > But heck, I WORK for the guvment, what do _I_ know? \*\* Obviously, enough to want to throw us off the track. Who are you with? FBI? CIA? NSA? (And when was the DNC list “repealed”? I never heard anything like that…) ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/46 "2003-12-28T11:49:34Z")
Pirate wench signing on! I’ll even bring me own swords, cloak, and dagger! As for conspiracy theorists, sorry, but I refuse to believe that many human beings can be competent enough long enough to keep a secret that long. I’ve seen too many bureaurocacies! :rolleyes: CJ Of course, that’s what I want you to think! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/47 "2003-12-28T12:17:24Z")
So, tell us—did she get the room? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/48 "2003-12-28T14:13:01Z")
real quick- the John Birch Society was founded in the late 1950s by candy manufacturer Robert Welch. It was named after a Georgian Baptist missionary to China who became a US Army Intelligence Officer & was killed by Red Chinese troops shortly after WWII. It’s rather libertarian economically, for a strong military, is both anti-Communist & anti-“Eastern Establishment”, attracts fundamentalist Christians tho Welch was a Unitarian & founding board members included a Christian Science member, Ezra Taft Benson of the LDS, and Traditionalist Latin Rite Catholics. It calls for abolishing the UN & considers groups like the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission & the Bildeberg Conferences as the forums through which the Western New World Order elites operate, carrying on a plot which goes back to the Bavarian Illuminati of 1776-1785. With the passing away of its founding leaders in the 1980s, it has been taken over by even more extreme ideologues who have alienated a lot of older members & it’s dying a slow death, far as I’ve been able to find (I was a member in the very early & very late 1980s). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/49 "2003-12-28T14:46:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Master Wang-Ka \* > \*\*The upshot of his rant was this: The original “Star Trek” series was cancelled in 1969 because the government already HAD phasers, warp drive, transporters, and so on, … \*\* WHAT! They’ve had transporters all this time? I mean, I _knew_ about the warp drive and phasers, but transporters? Damn you Federal government! ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/50 "2003-12-28T16:04:32Z")
don’t forget about having to sacrifice blonde haired blue eyed females to gods. Such as Sharon Tate, Princess Diana, and JonBenet Ramsey! or flouride. ---
**Author:** ![french\_frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c77e96/32.png) [@french\_frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/french_frog)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/51 "2003-12-28T16:56:14Z")
I didn’t know about the Mk2 CIA’s project. A quick yahoo research lead me to : [Hip Forums](http://www.hipforums.com/forumdisplay.php3?FID=22&subid=70) Wow. If you agree for her to be a roommate, check you smoke alarm detectors 😉 … and as everybody knows, nothing’s as good as a blue toad … * * * \*\* Roommate Roomcheckmate \*\* - You’re definitly stuck with this conspiracy nuts roommate ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/52 "2003-12-29T03:20:04Z")
The best part is that when this woman tells future potential roommates that there was a global conspiracy monitoring her beliefs and discussing them online, nobody’ll believe her. ---
**Author:** ![BellaDellaItalia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BellaDellaItalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellaDellaItalia)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/53 "2003-12-29T04:31:13Z")
_hums sea shanty as she swabs the deck_ ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/54 "2003-12-29T06:46:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FriarTed \* > \*\*real quick- the John Birch Society was founded in the late 1950s by candy manufacturer Robert Welch. It was named after a Georgian Baptist missionary to China who became a US Army Intelligence Officer & was killed by Red Chinese troops shortly after WWII. It’s rather libertarian economically, for a strong military, is both anti-Communist & anti-“Eastern Establishment”, attracts fundamentalist Christians tho Welch was a Unitarian & founding board members included a Christian Science member, Ezra Taft Benson of the LDS, and Traditionalist Latin Rite Catholics. It calls for abolishing the UN & considers groups like the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission & the Bildeberg Conferences as the forums through which the Western New World Order elites operate, carrying on a plot which goes back to the Bavarian Illuminati of 1776-1785. With the passing away of its founding leaders in the 1980s, it has been taken over by even more extreme ideologues who have alienated a lot of older members & it’s dying a slow death, far as I’ve been able to find (I was a member in the very early & very late 1980s). \*\* Robert Welch didn’t die - he simply went into hiding when his deep one heritage started to show. I had him found the John Birch Society to counter the Illuminati & Amway, two of the most powerful secret societies that wish to prevent My coming. ---
**Author:** ![non-native](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@non-native](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/non-native)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/55 "2003-12-29T07:20:23Z")
I once knew a guy that believed that those sneaky Russian commies were only _pretending_ to be poor and powerless so that they may **STRIKE WITHOUT WARNING!!!11111** A new war is dawning America. …Be preprared. ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/56 "2003-12-29T07:37:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by non-native \* > \*\*I once knew a guy that believed that those sneaky Russian commies were only _pretending_ to be poor and powerless so that they may **STRIKE WITHOUT WARNING!!!11111** > > A new war is dawning America. > > …Be preprared. \*\* IT’s all true, don’t you remember that episode of the Simpsons? The Kremlin opened up and out come the tanks, Lenin rose to life and started terrorizing the populace… ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/57 "2003-12-29T07:49:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*There is no spoon. > > Well, that explains _everything_. \*\* Well, everything _except_ who the Dish ran away with. It’s obvious now that there has been a coverup. Who DID the Dish flee the oppressive Hey Diddle Diddle regime with, and where did they seek asylum? Has the Spoon been kept in detention ever since? Why has there been no word of the Spoon? Well? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238/58 "2003-12-29T07:51:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eternal \* > \*\*IT’s all true, don’t you remember that episode of the Simpsons? … Lenin rose to life and started terrorizing the populace… \*\* Sure that wasn’t Lennon? ``` :D ``` [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-met-a-conspiracy-nut-yesterday/221238.md?page=2)