Comments on: ATTACK OF THE ELFS http://lailalalami.com/2003/attack-of-the-elfs/ Author of Secret Son and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:44:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: al http://lailalalami.com/2003/attack-of-the-elfs/#comment-549 al Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:07:52 +0000 http://lailalalami.com/2003/attack-of-the-elfs/#comment-549 Yikes! You like conspiracy theories even more than me! I hadn't thought of the dealer doing it to themselves, it would seem to be pretty risky, in my opinion. I guess the fact that the ELFs <a>admit it</a> should quell those conspiracy tendencies... Yikes! You like conspiracy theories even more than me! I hadn’t thought of the dealer doing it to themselves, it would seem to be pretty risky, in my opinion. I guess the fact that the ELFs admit it should quell those conspiracy tendencies…

]]> By: Leila A. http://lailalalami.com/2003/attack-of-the-elfs/#comment-548 Leila A. Tue, 26 Aug 2003 04:37:44 +0000 http://lailalalami.com/2003/attack-of-the-elfs/#comment-548 I agree with you in principle, Moorish Girl. But today while driving I had another thought about this. My Middle Eastern conspiracy mind clicked into gear. Heard an ad for Pleasanton Hummers - they are desperate to sell their 2003 demonstration models. Deals, deals, deals! I wondered if Hummer is having a hard time selling the behemoths (even though I see them all the time on the freeways of Oakland - yech). Then I thought of that warehouse that got torched in LA. Wouldn't it be convenient for a dealer who has too many Hummers on hand to lose them all in a fire set by evildoing environmentalists? Then get all those loyal Hummer owners and wannabes to rally? You might even sell some more Hummers. It's a paranoid thought, I know. But hey, I lived in Cairo for nearly a year, and learned to think of the worst conspiracies possible. Sometimes they even turn out to be true. For instance, wouldnt' there be pretty good security at a Hummer warehouse? How did they get in? It's got to be pretty difficult to set that many trucks on fire. Etc. But I'm the one who always thinks that violent demonstrators at peace rallies are FBI plants (and you know what, they probably are) Leila I agree with you in principle, Moorish Girl.

But today while driving I had another thought about this. My Middle Eastern conspiracy mind clicked into gear. Heard an ad for Pleasanton Hummers – they are desperate to sell their 2003 demonstration models. Deals, deals, deals! I wondered if Hummer is having a hard time selling the behemoths (even though I see them all the time on the freeways of Oakland – yech).

Then I thought of that warehouse that got torched in LA. Wouldn’t it be convenient for a dealer who has too many Hummers on hand to lose them all in a fire set by evildoing environmentalists? Then get all those loyal Hummer owners and wannabes to rally? You might even sell some more Hummers.

It’s a paranoid thought, I know. But hey, I lived in Cairo for nearly a year, and learned to think of the worst conspiracies possible. Sometimes they even turn out to be true.

For instance, wouldnt’ there be pretty good security at a Hummer warehouse? How did they get in? It’s got to be pretty difficult to set that many trucks on fire. Etc.

But I’m the one who always thinks that violent demonstrators at peace rallies are FBI plants (and you know what, they probably are)
Leila

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