# What were your favorite lunatic theories on the SDMB?

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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):
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> \*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.

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