# The Illuminati are incompetent, too. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 13, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-illuminati-are-incompetent-too/45262 "2000-12-13T00:15:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-illuminati-are-incompetent-too/45262/1 "2000-12-13T00:15:36Z")
My little company only occupies two floors in our 23-story building. The owner of the building, and the main tenant, is one of those financial mega-corps that are rumored to control the world. Trilateral Commission members on the board, Masons out the wazoo, Federal Reserve board members consulting, shadowy financiers bailing them out when they run into trouble, the whole bit. And in our little non-descript building downtown is where they have chosen to place some of their most sensitive telecommunications and computer assets. Today, one of the transformers in our building blew up, causing an evacuation. Again. It seems to happen every six months. Every six months _for the past ten fucking years!_ Sheesh! You’d think if you controlled the world you could afford a decent electrician. Just thought you’d want to know. An aside: the MSWord spell-checker does not recognize “illuminati” as a word. Hmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![zyzzyva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@zyzzyva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zyzzyva)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-illuminati-are-incompetent-too/45262/2 "2000-12-13T00:25:06Z")
It’s all part of their plan, my friend. It’s all about what they want you to think. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-illuminati-are-incompetent-too/45262/3 "2000-12-13T00:35:00Z")
What do you suppose they did in there after evacuating everyone that isn’t in on the master plan? I’d be checking for lenses and microphones in the plastic plants. ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-illuminati-are-incompetent-too/45262/4 "2000-12-13T00:41:06Z")
Ah, they tell you it was a transformer, that is what they want you to think. They could really be down there putting aluminum foil in the microwave. Who would really know. I think you need to buy a trench coat (brown color), a bowler hat, and investigate this mystery. deb ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-illuminati-are-incompetent-too/45262/5 "2000-12-13T01:01:55Z")
My nice but not-too-up-on-stuff husband was pondering aloud yesterday about the election, and he wondered if there was some sort of secret society that controls the government. I, of course, know for a fact that there is not, and I promptly whipped out my totally dog-eared copy of _The Straight Dope_ to prove it. But it was late, and he said he’d read it in the morning. He hasn’t read it yet. So, should I play with his head? Should I hide my SD book? He’s no doubt forgotten all about it. Should I just start dropping “fnords” into our conversations? Or should I insist that he read about the Illuminati and show him this thread as well, thus proving to him that not only do the Illuminati not exist, they’re idiots as well? What say the TM’s? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-illuminati-are-incompetent-too/45262/6 "2000-12-13T01:05:55Z")
[hijack] > [@](#): > > _originally posted by deb2world_ > **I think you need to buy a trench coat (brown color), a bowler hat, and investigate this mystery.** a _bowler!_ I am shocked!! It must be a fedora or nothing!! _Pardon the hijack_ [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-illuminati-are-incompetent-too/45262/7 "2000-12-13T01:08:09Z")
Of course, we only have manhattan’s word for it. Maybe he caused the alleged evacuation for his own nefarious purposes and is using the innocent [New World Order](http://members.tripod.com/~Telecommie/) as the patsy (not that a moderator would ever do anything that sneaky or underhand of course:D) ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-illuminati-are-incompetent-too/45262/8 "2000-12-18T04:24:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Persephone \* > \*\* > So, should I play with his head? > > \*\* By all means, Screw with his head, and play with it too if he has been a good boy 😃 Leave a copy of The Illuminatus Trillogy around, tell him never to read it. If he is like I am, the first thing he will do when he is alone is read it. Should freak him out.