We Know Who You Are!! ... Welcome to the Museum of Hoaxes.
As part of my campaign to make this blog the number one forum for literate anarchists I'm presenting for your entertainment and edification an introduction to the mother of all reference sites for conspiracy theories and various urban myths and legends. It's called the "Museum of Hoaxes". They've got everything from "Mr. Ed was a zebra" sort of silliness to the more "serious" (or seriously idiotic) "moon landing was a fake" stories. A listing at the top of their home page in the form of a task bar provides hyperlinks to various categories of popular stupidity. These include:
1) Hoaxipedia (The encyclopedia of hoaxes) - listing of great hoaxes in search engine format. (It's huge!)
2) Famous hoaxes throughout history - ie. Shroud of Turin, Orson Welles' War of the Worlds hoax, BigFoot, and Spirit Photography. But where is Orgone energy or that "instantly frozen mammoth" as portrayed in Hollywood potboilers like "Day after Tomorrow" . Maybe later?
3) Top 100 April Fools Hoaxes - including the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest and the Sydney Iceberg. These are really good.
4) (other) Hoax Websites - a dictionary of great hoaxes and gags. like the Nigerian Email Conference.
Hoax photos - including the Cottngley (or Yorkshire) Fairies. These two girls admitted, just before they died, in a BBC interview they had fooled Conan Doyle with this one. Just unbelievable ...
Photo Test - Test your ability to discern real from imaginery images. Some of the real ones look like fakes.
Gullibility Test - This test includes a list of common beliefs intermixed with oddities of science that are true but appear not to be so. ie. negligible senescence is evident in turtles but so is cancer in sharks.
2) Famous hoaxes throughout history - ie. Shroud of Turin, Orson Welles' War of the Worlds hoax, BigFoot, and Spirit Photography. But where is Orgone energy or that "instantly frozen mammoth" as portrayed in Hollywood potboilers like "Day after Tomorrow" . Maybe later?
3) Top 100 April Fools Hoaxes - including the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest and the Sydney Iceberg. These are really good.
4) (other) Hoax Websites - a dictionary of great hoaxes and gags. like the Nigerian Email Conference.
Hoax photos - including the Cottngley (or Yorkshire) Fairies. These two girls admitted, just before they died, in a BBC interview they had fooled Conan Doyle with this one. Just unbelievable ...
Photo Test - Test your ability to discern real from imaginery images. Some of the real ones look like fakes.
Gullibility Test - This test includes a list of common beliefs intermixed with oddities of science that are true but appear not to be so. ie. negligible senescence is evident in turtles but so is cancer in sharks. See Space.Com for their ten greatest Apollo moon landing stories. The astronaut's flag is not only NOT fluttering in the "lunar breeze", it is obvious that this is so. My feeling has always been that the people who believe in this junk are the same people who believed in the Hollow World and Welteislehre (Cosmic Ice Theory) supported by some fascists in Germany. The last person I ran into who talked like this was an enthusiastic proponent of the Saskatchewan ( ie. Conservative) party. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose ... peut-etre pour encourager les autres?
Labels: conservatives, gullibility, hoaxes, jokes
posted by Werner @ 7:49 AM
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2 Comments:
Very nice post.
Something as the 419 email scam, isn't a hoax. It is pure criminal thievery.
Well that's true. I should have said hoaxes, scams and gags. I remember seeing a 419 fax for the first time many years ago and I figured for a moment it was some kind of chain letter like a kid's joke. I couldn't believe people could fall for these things. Mainly people with more money than brains I guess.
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