# Unproven private theories -- What's yours? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 22, 2003, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unproven-private-theories-whats-yours/170275 "2003-04-22T07:44:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unproven-private-theories-whats-yours/170275/101 "2003-04-26T04:03:10Z")
> [@](#): > > - Originally posted by Second Star to the Right \* > I’m convinced tollbooth operators have underground communities based around their respective tollbooths. I came up with this one day while riding in a friends car and observing a set of stairs between lanes that led underground to an unseen destination. I realized I’d never actually known anyone who worked in a tollbooth, or known of anyone, for that matter. > > It’s airtight, that theory. 🙂 > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BioHazard \* > I went to a high security industrial plant one time for a class and discovered that this is at least true for those tiny little guard booths at the entrance to parking lots. :eek: Hmm. Maybe my theory is one of those things everyone knows about but me. Wouldn’t be the first thing… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unproven-private-theories-whats-yours/170275/102 "2003-04-26T08:22:45Z")
The 1999 Super Bowl, in which the (my) Atlanta Falcons got beaten so badly by the Denver Broncos, was FIXED! Evidence (yes, I have evidence for MY private theory… uh, sorta): Exhibit A: Eugene Robinson, starting cornerback (or free safety? I forget) for the Atlanta Falcons that year, gets busted by the Miami PD the night before the Super Bowl with cocaine and hookers. His wife and kids are in town with him, but he’s out partying. Team flips out, is nervous and unsettled for the Big Game. Exhibit B: _Robinson plays anyway._ He _started in the Super Bowl_ the night after getting busted? When the entire team was mad at him and freaked out? Yes he did. Exhibit C: Second quarter of the game. Elway (playing his last game ever) passes to somebody or other, I forget who. Receiver is being covered by Robinson. Receiver gets away, heads downfield for a TD, in fact the TD that blew the game open. If you watch the tape in slo-mo, it is _totally obvious_ that Robinson slowed himself down on purpose just enough to let the ball get there and let the receiver break away. In other words, Robinson was throwing the game! How on Earth can I make such an assumption? Well… Exhibit D, the clincher: _Robinson played for Denver the preceding season._ Nope, I’m not kidding. I blame Eugene Robinson entirely for my beloved Falcons getting their collective ass handed to them in their only Super Bowl (so far!). Yeah, I’m kind of a fan. ---
**Author:** ![Kivick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/65b543/32.png) [@Kivick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kivick)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unproven-private-theories-whats-yours/170275/103 "2003-04-26T21:59:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jr8 \* > \*\*Talking to plants only works because you’re breathing CO[sub]2[/sub] directly onto them, which encourages growth. \*\* Ive thought that too! Another theory: Gravity is not the attraction of masses but a force that occurs when time is displaced by mass. Allot like cold can not be created directly as it is the absence of heat. Gravity is a vacuum of displaced time. Still a rough theory in my head… ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unproven-private-theories-whats-yours/170275/104 "2003-04-26T22:37:32Z")
Deja vu comes from the fact that we experienced all of this before. When we die, everything is rewound and we start our exact lives over, like the movie **Groundhog’s Day**. We never remember our “past” lives except in those instances when we experience deja vu, so, for the most part, everything that happens to us seems new. It never ends. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unproven-private-theories-whats-yours/170275/105 "2003-04-27T00:57:55Z")
Docking a dog’s tail makes it’s tongue grow longer. Evolution or creation, it doesn’t matter. You cannot prove to me the world existed before July 31st, 1961. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unproven-private-theories-whats-yours/170275/106 "2003-04-27T14:03:51Z")
My pet theory is that drinking alcohol makes doing physics and mathematics easier. Alcohol can also make a year turn into a day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unproven-private-theories-whats-yours/170275.md?page=5)