What's your favourite?

I’m bored with Bigfoot. Alien abduction doesn’t move me any more. The moon landing hoax can still raise a giggle now and then and the 9/11 ‘truthers’ just scare the ◊◊◊◊ out of me.

So what’s your favourite. Which conspiracy really gets you going nowadays? The New World Order? The British Royal Family as alien lizards? Dark Side of the Rainbow?
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Personally I have a fondness for the idea that Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria1 was murdered. Probably because (a) it's actually possible and (b) his survival and ascension to the AHB throne leads to such interesting possibilities regarding pre-WW1 European politics............

1 along with Mary Vetsera, but she was only a baroness.
 
I have to go with FotL. Not only does it make no sense, but it's conclusions are put to the test and found lacking again and again. It's like a bottomless comedy goldmine.
 
A lot of good ones listed.
I do always get a real giggle out of the 'MacCartney is dead' one which was mentioned in the OP. At one time I considered creating a music industry conspiracy.(despite my knowing practically nothing about the music industry but since when is knowledge a requirement for conspiracy theories?)

I had noticed that several lead signers of various rock bands had physical attributes in common, The Rolling Stones, AeroSmith, The Ramones and others all had skinny ,tall lead men who had , ummm putting it delicatly, very angular faces.

So,,,, in the 1950's the music industry had secret labs that actually had the intricacies of genetic manipulation down pat. It stemmed from the Nazi experiments and Goebbels' drive to perfect German culture. They selected for stamina and a voice that would work well for the up and coming Rock and Roll genre. First came Mick Jagger, John Lennon, David Bowie and Steve Tyler,(see what I mean, they are all very similar:jaw-dropp) then several others who also led so called super groups and they made the music industry billions.

The genetic manipulation got more precise and now they do not have to settle for the same basic body type and they can also adjust for voices that fit other genres. They tried too hard during the late 60's and that led to the nastiness that was the 1980's glam rock, but it is ALLLLL controlled by Big Music.

So? wadda ya think, would it have wheels?
 
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Hans said:
Oh the Freeman is a hoot but my all time favorite is the nameless conspiracy that somehow causes all the archaeologists and specialist who analyze the pass to hide all the evidence of aliens, advanced humans, advanced technology, etc, I call it the cloak of hiding stuff conspiracy
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Ooh, yes, that's probably my favourite too (although I spend a lot of time on 9/11). Watching woos accuse Zahi Hawass of nefarious deeds and cover-ups never gets old. :newlol
 
jaydeehess said:
A lot of good ones listed.
I do always get a real giggle out of the 'MacCartney is dead' one which was mentioned in the OP. At one time I considered creating a music industry conspiracy.(despite my knowing practically nothing about the music industry but since when is knowledge a requirement for conspiracy theories?)

I had noticed that several lead signers of various rock bands had physical attributes in common, The Rolling Stones, AeroSmith, The Ramones and others all had skinny ,tall lead men who had , ummm putting it delicatly, very angular faces.

So,,,, in the 1950's the music industry had secret labs that actually had the intricacies of genetic manipulation down pat. It stemmed from the Nazi experiments and Goebbels' drive to perfect German culture. They selected for stamina and a voice that would work well for the up and coming Rock and Roll genre. First came Mick Jagger, John Lennon, David Bowie and Steve Tyler,(see what I mean, they are all very similar:jaw-dropp) then several others who also led so called super groups and they made the music industry billions.

The genetic manipulation got more precise and now they do not have to settle for the same basic body type and they can also adjust for voices that fit other genres. They tried too hard during the late 60's and that led to the nastiness that was the 1980's glam rock, but it is ALLLLL controlled by Big Music.

So? wadda ya think, would it have wheels?
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Hmm, it reminds me of a quote from one of John Sandford's "Prey" novels:

"Like all of the latest crop of on-camera newswomen, she.....and just a hint of the fashionable overbite. Lucas had suggested to Weather that a surgeon was making a fortune somewhere, turning out TV anchors with bee-stung lips and overbites. Weather told him that would be unethical; the next day, though, she said she'd been watching, and there were far too many overbites on local television to be accounted for by simple jaw problems."
 
I'm not sure my favorite, but my LEAST favorite is the moon landing hoax. I find it terribly depressing that our science education has failed so thoroughly.

These days I've been digging on some Tesla conspiracy stuff.

In a nutshell, if I'm going to fantasize, I'd rather fantasize about tapping into the ionosphere and harnessing that power to colonize the moon, where we meet alien races and discover that Douglas Adams is still alive, performing a nightly one-man show somewhere northwest of the Andromeda galaxy.
 
catsmate1 said:
Hmm, it reminds me of a quote from one of John Sandford's "Prey" novels:

"Like all of the latest crop of on-camera newswomen, she.....and just a hint of the fashionable overbite. Lucas had suggested to Weather that a surgeon was making a fortune somewhere, turning out TV anchors with bee-stung lips and overbites. Weather told him that would be unethical; the next day, though, she said she'd been watching, and there were far too many overbites on local television to be accounted for by simple jaw problems."
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OMG, what IS it with overbites on women on TV lately? Gabrielle Anwar on Burn Notice, the two new chicks on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Mary McCormack on In Plain Sight... was there a sudden decline in orthodonture approximately thirty or thirty-five years ago?
 
Elizabeth I said:
OMG, what IS it with overbites on women on TV lately? Gabrielle Anwar on Burn Notice, the two new chicks on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Mary McCormack on In Plain Sight... was there a sudden decline in orthodonture approximately thirty or thirty-five years ago?
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I believe the answer can be found in another of Sandford's books:
"....said that every female host of the Today show had been chosen because she looked like she’d be good at fellatio."
(Sorry I'm re-reading the Prey series at the moment).
 
Myron Proudfoot said:
Most CTs just annoy me, but I have a fondness for Hollow Earth stories...
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I have fondness for that myself, but I don't know if it qualifies as a full fledged Conspiracy Theory. A Gob Smackingly Crazy,Crackpot idea, yes, but not exactly a CT. The CT angle is a minor part of it,unlike things like the Moon Landing Hoax where the CT angle is the main ingrediant.
It makes me sad that somebody as talented as Neal Adams is making such a fool of himself peddling a variant version of the Hollow Earth Theory.
 
I've really enjoyed lurking the FOTL threads. That was completely new to me and the sheer ridiculousness of it all is hilarious.
 
My favorite is one that's in my mind the most plausible I've ever heard, limited scope, very few conspirators required, and a official story that is totally possible but doesn't make the most sense in the world.

Michael Jordan's first retirement and short lived baseball career was a cover for a gambling suspension.
 
So i was refraining from posting because i would say i love all woo equally. But a front runner has popped up in the freeman on the land movement.

I would summarize it in the following way. Its like the A-hole friend who waits till your drunk and then tells you to go pick a fight with someone twice your size.
 
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