Both you and Annie Xmas are close. Deja vu and examples of true precognition are both effects of a ripple in timespace caused by my discovery of time travel roughly two decades from now. I gather that working the mathematics and physics of the thing requires some odd states of mind. By the time I have a working device, I am more than a little mad. This is why I do not travel back in time in order to ensure that younger me is wealthy.
Every couple has an olive-eater and a non olive eater. This is part of the natural flow of the world, so that one person flicks olives out of their food, and the other gets the bonus olives. Some couples split up olive eating, each eating only black or only green. I think if 2 people both love olives, and become infatuated with each other,the need for olives will drive a wedge between them. If it is true love, someone’s taste for olives will atrophy
All the pictures on the covers of my books / DVDS / CDs are alive and watching me go about my business.
Yes, it’s absolutely stupid and crazy. And yes, I still turn the spines of the books inwards on the bookshelves. :smack:
Nicely done, Marshall from How I Met Your Mother (explained for those who aren’t about to watch the show cuz it’s awesome in some random guy’s blog). If this means you’re a writer for the show, I bow down to you.
Plus, I’ve found a counterexample to disprove the olive theory: me and Only Mostly Dead. We both hate olives.
That’s why I don’t wear them. We have to wipe out this plague while we still can!
And what we call a ‘dictionary’ is a book that shows you how to spell words, including ‘psychic’.
Ianzin is actually an alien, sent to study the human mind and determine how best to invade our world.
The universe is infinite, which means that there is at all times an equal amount of it in every direction from me. That makes me the center of the universe.
I actually, honestly believe these to be true.
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“Business Casual,” as a mode of dress, exists primarily to squash sexuality in the workplace. This is achieved because nobody looks good in business casual - it’s too businessy and formal to be casual (which most people feel and look most comfortable in), but not dressy enough to be formal, which most people feel/act most attractive and confident in. Therefore, it enforces a sexless mediocrity of appearance that squashes any sexuality in the workplace.
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Homosexuality is 100% socialized/the product of nurture; nobody is “born gay.”
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The 50/50 lifeline on Who wants to be a Millionaire? is in no way “random,” though the host always reads, “And the computer will randomly remove two of the incorrect answers” when a contestant chooses it. I did closed captioning for that show for almost two years, averaging an episode a day, and there was not one instance in which the computer did anything other than throw out the two most obviously wrong answers, leaving the right answer and the “almost right” answer to ensure maximum difficulty. This could possibly be spun into a scandal if anyone still cared about the show.
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Anything - literally anything - can be a runaway success if enough marketing dollars are put behind it. I think that people are truly so impressionable when it comes to marketing that literally anything - a soda based around bull semen, a bug-based candy, the ugliest and least talented actor that ever lived, the most medicore bar band playing at that dive around the corner - could be made into a mass, Britney Spears-level success.
There is a particular sensation associated with recalling a memory, and it is caused by a particular chemical in our brains. Deja vu is caused when this chemical is released inadvertently, causing us to think we’re remembering something when in fact we’re just seeing events unfold as they usually do.
I have racked my brain. I can’t say I have any conspiracy theories. But I find some of the ones posted hilarious and maybe I will adopt one or two of them. I will keep you all posted.
Sorry you forgot, but here’s your most recent crazy/irrational thread.
Politics, like pro-wrestling, is all fake.
I’m still trying to decide if the world is being run by reptilian overlords from outspace or some crazy guy behind the curtian.
I concur. But is that a bad thing?
I concur again. But…
I assume you’re taking about energy drinks that use bull testosterone as an ingredient. In which case you’re being disingenuous. Not that I drink the stuff–I prefer No-Doz on the rare occasions I really need an energy burst.
No, I mean literally a chunky, milkshakey, theoretical drink based around Bull Semen.
I’ve always had the theory that regular, mid-grade, and premium gas are the same gas at 3 different prices.
I think the anti-virus companies like Symantec and McAfee could write software to protect your system from viruses basically once and for all without the monthly subscription to virus updates.
Lumpy, I’ve had the same “Everyone knows I’m not normal but has been secretly told to be nice to me” theory. I think it comes from being self-conscious and embarassed about the things you think about in polite company.
I am certain that everyone in the world is well aware of how paranoid my brain is. That is why at my last job, where I sat facing a computer with my back facing a major walkway, people would make sure to approach very loudly from one side until they were directly behind me at which point they would continue on as silently as possible. Thus I could never tell whether a person had actually stopped right behind me or not. Of course I couldn’t just look behind myself because then they would know that I knew that they were watching me. I knew, of course, that no one was really watching me, but that never stopped my brain from trying to convince me it was true, and all of the othe people in the building were ganging up on me.
These people were clearly doing this for the sole purpose of driving me insane.
There is a TV show devoted to the Olive thing?! WHOOP!
I don’t write for anything, and I NEED to know when this show is on! I have held the Olive theory for 2 decades, and have only gotten odd looks when I explained to anyone but my parents. I had observed this phenomenon in them, and also my friends’ relationships. We first discussed it while using a half gallon of rancid tuna-mac salad salad to achieve mind control in bluegills (not that bluegill minds need that much controling). The salad contained black olives.
There are some sub-hypothesises of how the olive love/hate travels in generations and siblings, but further testing is required. I go now to google this “marshall”
The same Civil Servant (or maybe a co-worker of his) is making sure that Aussie wines I like will never be available in the US for a decent price 
Dryers have teleportation devices included in them. This explains how an article of clothing that you’ve never seen before can end up in your laundry. It also explains where the socks go- they get teleported into the galactic halo, where they form sock stars. These are huge accumulations of socks, but not massive enough to shine (and may not have enough hydrogen, anyway). Sock stars make up at least part of the missing mass of the universe that cosmologists tell us has to be there.
Small local conspiracy: The Sonoma Jack Cheese Company puts crack in their chili cheddar cheese at the request of the Sonoma Chamber of Commerce, to make sure I will come back to Sonoma, buy their cheese, and while I’m there buy other stuff.
No, there was just a mix-up somewhere. Mr. Neville and I both love olives.
How I Met Your Mother is on CBS on Monday nights - 8:30/7:30 Central 
And the olive theory is not the crux of the series, but did play an important part in the pilot episode.