The “rings” of Saturn are actually debris belts, the source of which was an ice moon in orbit around that planet. Aliens busted it up for fuel and raw materials before moving on.
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Non spoiler
In Ursula Le Guinn’s story Field Of Vision, some scientists are convinced that the Kuiper Belt is the remnants of an ancient, devastated intergalactic fleet. Besides debating the evidence, some people object that there is no reason even an alien mind would come all the way to our solar system.
Back To The OP
The Combine, as depicted in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, is real. The megacorporations, governments, etc are not in a conscious conspiracy. But, they all seperately work to maintain the status quo. Organizations with political power work to prevent real social change which might change the balance and result in their losing power. Corporations want society to stay the same to avoid losing influence or profits, and because it makes predicting trends and planning much easier.
A child of rich parents will receive expensive toys, clothing etc which teach him that he is a Have. He will attend a private school, which will tacitly teach him the same thing.
A poor child will quickly learn he is a Have Not. He will express his hatred for the Haves by buying food, clothing, and music made for Have Nots- by a wholly owned subsidiary of a multinational corporation.
Well, quite. You see, the point is that we didn’t evolve to be able to distinguish a game animal from another hunter at gunshot range. We only needed to tell them apart at the distance that we could throw a rock or a flint spear. 
Judging from my experiences both at the rifle range and out hunting- ie, people with $2000 rifles and the Hubble Space Telescope’s terrestrial cousin mounted atop their rifle, firing at a target 50m away, I don’t think gunshot range and spear range are as disparate as people think.
You could also ask the 24th Regiment of Foot- more specifically the guys who were at Isandhlwana- about that as well. I’m sure they’d have some most enlightening views on the subject.
I did, however, think of another crazy, irrational theory:
Cosmo and Cleo are propaganda tools to encourage women to experiement with lesbianism and bisexuality, judging from the number of stories they run on the subject.
Hey, I didn’t say there was anything wrong with it. 
Bums & wino’s seldom go bald. Have you ever seen a real smelly, cart-pushing drunk with male pattern baldness? No, usually they have lots of hair, thick, and standing out in all directions.
Why? [ul]
[li]They never wash their hair with shampoo;[/li][li]They look older then they are, so you’d expect them to look balder then they are;[/li][li]The dirt in the hair acts as a styling product, making the hair look thicker; [/li][li]There’s a secret ingredient in healthy food that accelerates balding in people who are genetically predisposed to it. It can’t be the alcohol itself, because moderate drinkers seem to go bald just like the average guy. [/li][/ul]
My theory is that when your luggage gets “lost” it means the TSA opened your bag for inspection and had trouble packing it back up again.
I actually half-believe this.
The republicans and democrats belong to the same party. All of them are dedicated to making sure that nothing happens.
Remember, Airline policy in the event of a Dildo is never to imply ownership of said Dildo- it’s always A Dildo or The Dildo- never Your Dildo.
Come on, he left it wide open!
Agents of the tire and towing companies randomly dump bucketfuls of nails along the freeways.
Regardless of where I park my little Subaru wagon, when I come back out there will be a van on one side and a SUV on the other, making it impossble to see to back out of the parking space.
Any flight that I arrive early for will have its departure delayed by at least 45 minutes. Any flight that I am late for will leave exactly on time, or push back from the gate five minutes early.
There is a network of persons who monitor the thoughts in my brain and, when I decide to go out and buy something, quickly send someone ahead to remove that item from the shelves. I know this one is true. For example, I will go to my local Fry’s, which occupies a building approximately the size of the Vatican, intending to buy a VGA monitor cable. When I get there, I will find 26 permutations of such cables, and hundreds upon hundreds of interconnection cables of every stripe, but not the one I need.
That’s not crazy or irrational.
Maybe, but I think they’d have more to say about the keys to the ammo boxes and the horror of being outnumbered about two hundred to one or whatever it was. :dubious:
Glad you issued that disclaimer, as I was on the point of saying “You say this as though it were a bad thing”.
The ammo crates were made of wood, and easily smashed open with a rifle butt (despite what Zulu Dawn would have you believe)- the real problem was that the Martini-Henry heats up awfully quickly when you fire it rapidly (more than about half a dozen shots in a minute), and the rolled brass cases expanded in the breech and got stuck- so the soldiers couldn’t reload, effectively leaving them to fight with bayonets.
Of course, this sort of thing was exactly why the Long Lever Martini-Henry Mk IV was introduced, along with drawn brass cases… The problem wasn’t really solved until they switched to Cordite in the mid-1890s, however.
Bit of a parallel with Greasy Grass there I believe - didn’t the cavalry have trouble with the Springfields’ ejectors tearing the cartridge case instead of pulling it out?
That’s not a sports disaster, that’s San Diego’s best prank on LA. They took 24 years to actually become a contender!
Now, the Rockets leaving? That was a sports disaster.
Y’know when you are reading the classifieds and there is a Prayer to St. Jude or **The Greatest Blessed Virgin Evar * prayer/novena things. And you need to prayer this prayer for 10 days and your prayers will be answered. And you need to run the ad as a form of thanks ( or something.)
I have always suspected that when the classifieds either has a last minute cancellation, or, more likely did not sell all their space, they put these prayer things
in there. Good for business overall.
What I want to know is in a non-christian area, say a nice jewish publication, do they have something similar?
I believe that there is, somewhere on my body, a zit that is the Master Zit. This is the zit, that when popped, will magically allow all the other blemishes on my body to go away and never come back.
There you go… my 1000th post was talking about zits. I’m so proud.
I wish that were true, then I’d have a chance to end the suffering (mine at least).
Some of these aren’t in the least crazy. Or so says I, while I drool. 
Anyway, my additions are: 1.) that If I Care Too Much about the outcome of whatever (the Rangers ever making it to the series, Brokeback taking home Best Picture), then there is no way in hell it’s gonna happen. For this reason alone, I try not to cheer on anyone that I know has a vested interest in something important. IE: If Hilary ever runs, I’ll say nary a peep.
2.) Forget whether or not Elvis left the damn building, it’s ye olde Lizard King who is still alive. I mean, do we really trust the only ‘eye witness’ account? And who thinks it wouldn’t have been a good move afterall? Not like the fellow was aging well or staying relevant. I say he’s holed up somewhere in France, pretending to be a Jim Morrison look-alike.
Lastly is numbero 3.) I swear that if I no longer need something (like post breast reduction – then I had no trouble finding affordable, somewhat-fitting bras), it will appear spontaneously worldwide. You know how it is. After I spent years trying to find any by means of exhaustive research and throwing too much money I didn’t have at the problem. Gah! How I hate, hate, hate that this happens. So much that I’ve decided not to need a single freakin’ thing until after I’m already finished with it. There! Pffft.
Not to mention… but all those socks theories are true!! ALL of them.
My theory is that time travel is possible, and that it is possible–even easy–to alter the past. And such past alteration has occured frequently. Everyone with a time machine who goes back into the past alters it radically, but the new future includes time travelers who return to the past and alter the past radically. This has happened millions, perhaps billions of times. Except the last time someone went back and changed the past, purely by accident they happened to change it in such a way that time travel will never be invented.
No one will ever be able to change the past, because time travel, although possible, will never be invented. If it was going to be invented we’d see the effects to time travellers everywhere. Since we don’t, we know that we never will. And so our timeline is now stable.
In Boston the DPW has been infected by some kind of mental disease. They’ve been watching the USS Constitution taken out every year on the fourth of July to turn it around - so it will weather evenly.
Thus it was decided that this would be a good idea to do to all the one way streets in the city.
Of course they couldn’t just change the directions on the one-way streets on the same day: That would be too confusing, and more importantly, it would overwork the road crews trying to change all the signs and painted road markings trying to do that.
So they change one street’s direction once a week. They’ve got a schedule in their secret base, with every one-way street inside 128 listed. And this schedule is set up so that every one-way street gets turned around every five years. But the exact timing of the changes is a secret to be protected at any costs.
Ack! They’re knocking on my door -