# What were your favorite lunatic theories on the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2021, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021 "2021-07-22T01:10:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/122 "2021-09-14T01:33:57Z")
That might make a little bit of sense, except that you’ve refused approximately 200 times to produce any evidence of what his blood alcohol content actually was. ---
**Author:** ![Jetblast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@Jetblast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jetblast)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/123 "2021-09-17T18:04:32Z")
A copy of Jimi’s autopsy sheet is on page 160 of Tony Brown’s book ‘Hendrix The Final Days’…It clearly says “Blood Alcohol Content 5mg”…I also possess the autopsy sheets and it says same…The 5mg reading is also shown in the recent 2018 movie ‘Jimi Hendrix A Perfect Murder’ (which stole two of my discoveries without credit)…I haven’t refused anything and this is simple, easily accessible information…That low an amount of alcohol vs lungs and stomach full of wine is forensic evidence of homicide by itself that the British government criminally avoided…5mg is a quarter glass of wine however I spoke to the head of the European Union’s Forensic Pathology Department, Dr Patrice Mangin, and he told me the measuring equipment at the time could only measure 5mg as its lowest reading and the actual amount could have been as low as 1mg - which is a trace amount really and only sharpens the proof… ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/124 "2021-10-21T14:48:14Z")
We’ve currently got an EinsteinWasWronger in GQ: > [@Can one theoretically travel faster than light relativistically?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-one-theoretically-travel-faster-than-light-relativistically/950057): > > Time goes differently for those on the ‘spaceship’ then on earth. For the people on the spaceship would it be possible to travel let’s say 10 light years in less than 10 years ‘ship time’ if traveling near the SoL? ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/125 "2021-10-21T14:56:22Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > We’ve currently got an EinsteinWasWronger in GQ: Joined in October 2011, spent 8 months and 134 posts exclusively arguing against relativity in a 2007 thread he bumped, and then took a break from posting for 10 years. Not worth responding to. ---
**Author:** ![cladking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@cladking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cladking)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/126 "2025-05-03T00:56:49Z")
I can go anywhere on the net and be abused. I have all sorts of new stuff about pyramids but I’m sure I can’t post any of it here. Maybe one of these days I’ll come back and talk about how Change in Species really occurs. It’s mere coincidence that ancient people agreed with me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/127 "2025-05-03T03:24:47Z")
How could they agree with you if they do not know of your existence, being ancient and all? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/128 "2025-05-03T03:42:51Z")
Well, at least he is telling us here that those theories are lunatic… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/129 "2025-05-03T07:11:16Z")
I think at best we are being to that _we_ think those ideas are lunatic. ---
**Author:** ![cladking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@cladking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cladking)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/130 "2025-05-03T18:26:04Z")
We both arrived at our theories through observation and logic. I have the advantage of numerous experiments as well. I have the disadvantage of thinking in modern language which has been confused for 4000 years. ---
**Author:** ![cladking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@cladking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cladking)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/131 "2025-05-03T18:30:40Z")
I call our species “_homo circularis rationatio_” (man whom reasons in circles). To us “evidence” is whatever supports what we believe. We choose our beliefs and then understand reality only in terms of those beliefs and eventually becoming the beliefs. Most of what we believe is false and based on nonsense 19th century science derived from old wives tales. Science has been overturned by experiment but we choose not to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/132 "2025-05-03T22:44:50Z")
I have to admit that various theories about the purpose of pyramids amuse me to no end and certainly pertain to the purpose of this thread. What are some of the lunatic theories put forth on the SDMB that are your favorites? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/133 "2025-05-04T00:41:56Z")
Oh. I always thought it was aliens. (I have to say, crazy CTs or not, I loved seeing @dropzone posts… 😦 RIP) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/134 "2025-05-04T02:14:37Z")
I noticed that no one here mentioned the threads that Shakespeare was written by somebody other than Shakespeare. That was a recurring subject until septimus left. But as cliched as relativity-being-wrong theories. My all time favorite lunatic theory was something so out of left field that I’ve never come across another variant. > [@he reads to us from something called 'Ulysses'.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-reads-to-us-from-something-called-ulysses/700891): > > \*And the head coach wants no sissies, So he reads to us from something called ‘Ulysses’. \* Thanks to Alan Sherman. But ‘Ulysses’? By James Joyce? Or Homer? And, why would that make boys less- “sissy-like”? @DChord568 treats us to probably hundreds of posts trying to crush the notion that Allan Sherman meant the reference to Ulysses to mean the book by James Joyce. Either a textbook perfect example of CT logic or a masterful imitation. I could believe either one. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/135 "2025-05-04T03:59:59Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I always thought it was aliens. [![](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/158/326/9148130.jpg) ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/158/326/9148130.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/136 "2025-05-04T04:02:15Z")
Hey. I thought all my pix were pulled down 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/137 "2025-05-04T05:39:58Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > @DChord568 treats us to probably hundreds of posts trying to crush the notion that Allan Sherman meant the reference to Ulysses to mean the book by James Joyce. Either a textbook perfect example of CT logic or a masterful imitation. I could believe either Until I followed that link (thank you) I thought the most tenacious defense of a losing position on the board were those who insisted there was a scene added to the end of the film _Big_. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/138 "2025-05-04T10:18:54Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I noticed that no one here mentioned the threads that Shakespeare was written by somebody other than Shakespeare. Actually, Shakespeare’s plays were written by someone else with the same name. Fact. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/139 "2025-05-04T10:21:10Z")
Enlighten us, oh wise one. How lucky we are to have been graced with a visit from someone with such wisdom! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/140 "2025-05-04T10:45:41Z")
There was this one guy who, thanks to a single description of the future King Charles II of England as a “Black Child”, was convinced that every single member of European royalty prior to the French Revolution had sub-Saharan African features and coloring, and actively hid this fact from the public. That was a great one. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/141 "2025-05-04T12:01:34Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > What are some of the lunatic theories put forth on the SDMB that are your favorites I’m fairly sure I read here first, the theory that the pyramids [were built](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-the-pyramids-in-egypt-built/706559/266) using hydraulic power via the Nile. This is not the craziest version of the theory. There was some other nutter before this poster, but “search” has limitations. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021.md?page=8)