I created a conspiracy theory...
Back in college, I and a mate decided that the time was ripe after NASA had launched their latest mars rover to troll the tinfoil hat brigade and see how far a planted story would go. We put out a story on a few crank forums that the rover was in fact a covert air defence system armed with Stinger anti-air missiles and would be used to shoot down any probes that the Americans thought would be against their national interest. Never mind that there's a hell of a lot of Mars to cover with one missile battery and the Chinese only got round to demonstrating a weapon that could blow up satellites a few years ago.

Anyway, long story short it got quite popular, and we had one guy so furious he called NASA up and sent us a recording of the call with a bewildered secretary. I've kept meaning to do it again for a few years, and see how far another outrageous load of crap can spread. Or even to compete outlandish theories against each other for popularity or wide dispersal, a sort of "Kittenwar for Cranks".
( Labmonkey last thought about having another coffee on, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 17:50, 2 replies)

A mate and I

( user_names_suck, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 23:48, closed)

Nope, "I and a mate" is grammatically sound.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 0:06, closed)