# What are your Favorite Unsubstantiated Theories! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 26, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656 "2005-05-26T20:03:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/201 "2005-06-17T09:49:37Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > It’s my firm belief that in addition to cramps and bloating, clumsiness/lack of physical coordination is a symptom experienced by some women during menstruation. Yes, I believe (and experience) this too. On the topic of menstruation, I believe that if men menstruated as well, people would get a day off work per month for it as a basic employees’ right. I’m not taking a swipe at men here; I really believe this would be the case. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/202 "2005-06-17T13:23:06Z")
Originally posted by **TJdude825** > [@](#): > > The calories in broken cookies don’t count. Not exactly, it’s not that they don’t count but rather they have been lost due to ‘ **calorie leakage** ’. Broken biscuits, the crumbs left in a cake tin etc. practically calorie free. (I’m unsure about the calorie status in uncooked cake mix - I mean if you happen to taste what’s left on the beaters for example - I’m not sure if the calories have ‘matured’ yet or if they ‘develop’ during the baking process.) Variation on the karma theory - if you get up to give an old lady your seat on the metro or bus, take the time to exchange a few words with an older person at the market or in a shop someone will do the same for your parents. If you tell too many people about something good which is going to happen to you you are tempting fate and risk it all going wrong. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/203 "2005-06-17T15:59:37Z")
> [@Cat Jones](#): > > If you tell too many people about something good which is going to happen to you you are tempting fate and risk it all going wrong. Jews have known this for centuries. You _never_ mention something good that is about to happen or has just happened without invoking some kind of protection. For example, you never say how cute a kid is without saying “Kennaherra” ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/204 "2005-06-17T17:57:53Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Jews have known this for centuries. You _never_ mention something good that is about to happen or has just happened without invoking some kind of protection. For example, you never say how cute a kid is without saying “Kennaherra” But what does “Kennaherra” mean - “Just kidding!”? ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/205 "2005-06-17T18:11:08Z")
“knock on wood”? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/206 "2005-06-17T18:13:58Z")
> [@E = mc²](#): > > But what does “Kennaherra” mean - “Just kidding!”? Hooray For Yiddish says > [@](#): > > Kayn ayn hore, kayn ayen hore (standard), kayne horeh. Rhymes with Dinah Cora, Hebrew:_eyn ha-ra_: no evil eye Yiddish is filled with differing pronunciations, I’ve usually heard ‘ken ahura’ or ‘cain ahura’. Watching many episodes of Will & Grace, I was upset at how seldom Grace said or did anything Jewish. When she and Will are going to a clinic for artificial insemination, he expresses unguarded optimism. She panics saying ‘What did you do?! You put a kaynahura on it!’ It was such an authentic piece of Jewish insanity, it made me miss my own mishpucha. But, God willing, I’ll see them in a few months. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/207 "2005-06-17T19:22:38Z")
> [@Enola Straight](#): > > “knock on wood”? Sounds right to me. And by the way, I’ve long thought your name is delightfully clever. Makes me smile every time. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/208 "2005-06-17T23:43:16Z")
> [@E = mc²](#): > > Sounds right to me. > > And by the way, I’ve long thought your name is delightfully clever. Makes me smile every time. Me too! Been meaning to mention that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/209 "2005-06-18T01:33:11Z")
> [@Girl From Mars](#): > > f) If you ask the parking gods very nicely, you will always get a park, no matter how crowded. I do this too. One time I went a little far and threatened them–“All right parking gods! Give me a damn spot! I’m tired from my crappy job and hungry. I need to park, get to my room, make and eat lunch and rocket to my class in a half an hour. If you don’t get me a spot right outside the dorm today, I will run over everyone I see!!!” Conslusion? Threatening works, but don’t over use it. > [@Fromage A Trois](#): > > I used to believe I was the only real person in the world, like **manx** suggested. I still believe that, except in a Truman Show type way. Everyone else are actors or scientists and they are studying me. Sometimes I wonder what I will do when I find out **Bird Man** isn’t who he said he was. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/210 "2005-07-20T19:58:44Z")
I wanted to share this crackpot theory my friends MIL beleives in. She lives on Lake Huron, where the water levels are getting lower and lower every year. Her theory has nothing to do with Global Warming & Evaporation but this is classic! the foreign freighters that are delivering goods up and down the Great Lakes are stealing and storing up our fresh water to take back to 3rd world countries. HAH! It’s so diabolically complicated and not cost effective you know it \*has \* to be true. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/211 "2005-07-20T20:12:30Z")
:d ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/212 "2005-07-20T20:14:02Z")
😃 _ahem_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/213 "2005-07-20T20:17:28Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I wanted to share this crackpot theory my friends MIL beleives in. > > She lives on Lake Huron, where the water levels are getting lower and lower every year. > > Her theory has nothing to do with Global Warming & Evaporation but this is classic! the foreign freighters that are delivering goods up and down the Great Lakes are stealing and storing up our fresh water to take back to 3rd world countries. > > HAH! > > It’s so diabolically complicated and not cost effective you know it \*has \* to be true. Southern California already has that sort of thing in their [thirsty bag of tricks](http://www.madwatergrab.org/), or at least businessfolk who see $$$ at the thought of making such things possible. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/214 "2005-07-21T01:26:05Z")
I sincerely believe that birth control is starting to have a selective effect on the human race. Women willing to forego reproduction in order to pursue careers are going to get rarer with every passing decade. Four hundred years from now, people will shake their heads in bewilderment wondering how 20th century women could not want to have babies. Four hundred years from now, the predominant world religion will be a variant of Scientology. My Theory About U.F.O.s: The reason the government has suppressed public knowledge of UFOs since 1947 is fear of cultural and economic domination. If the public knew aliens were real, Earth would swiftly become a “third-world planet”, clamoring to import superior alien technology while having little of value to offer in trade, resulting in poverty and backwardness. Dictators would want to acquire superweapons and would be willing to offer as many of their subjects as brain-in-jar slaves as it took to purchase them. Even at the height of the Cold War, the US and the USSR had in common a keen historical awareness of what happens to technologically inferior peoples who get dominated by outsiders, and they mutually agreed not to fall into the trap of trying to underbid each other to alien imperialists. One reason why vast nuclear arsenals were retained was not just the Cold War, but to deter alien interference with Earth, and to nuke any power that tried to open relations with them. During a period in the 1950s when it started to appear that the aliens were going to bypass our governments and deal with the populace directly, the “science fiction” film _Earth vs the Flying Saucers_ was secretly backed by the government as a propaganda film. Our government’s secret policy to deal with the aliens is to duplicate the strategy that was used by Japan, one of the few nations on Earth that never fell under European domination. First, keep the foreigners out as long as possible. Second, advance industry and technology as rapidly as possible. The hope is that if we can keep isolated for another 100-200 years, we will close the tech gap, or at least narrow it enough that the aliens are only 10x as advanced as us instead of 1000x. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656/215 "2005-07-21T06:36:30Z")
I’ve begun to suspect that a _lot_ of religious rituals, worldwide—mostly ones having to do with ritual cleanliness or purity—were the result of, centuries back, wise, or influential holy men who happened to have cases of moderate to severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-unsubstantiated-theories/305656.md?page=10)