Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

German city offers $1.1M to whoever proves it doesn’t exist

apnews.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 52 posts

Re: German city offers $1.1M to whoever proves it doesn’t exist

#2

Post by mc32 »

This is too funny.

Someone mocked conspiracy theories by spinning an undoubtedly and obviously fake theory which was in turn promptly absorbed by actual conspiracy theorists and also became a bit of pop culture absurdity and now the city is taking this supposed non existence as an opportunity to promote itself back into the real world of money, tourism and goodwill. Nice turnaround.

Re: German city offers $1.1M to whoever proves it doesn’t exist

#3

Post by bhaak »

mc32 wrote: post #2

This is too funny. Someone mocked conspiracy theories by spinning an undoubtedly and obviously fake theory which was in turn promptly absorbed by actual conspiracy theorists and also became a bit of pop culture absurdity and now the city is taking this supposed non existence as an opportunity to promote itself back into the real world of money, tourism and goodwill. Nice turnaround.

"promptly" :-)

It started in 1994 on the German Usenet.

Edit: this is the original posting http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2r570dINNahh%40snofru.i...

You'll notice the usenet group is de.talk.bizarre so it is completely understandable that people think this is just a hoax.

Post reply on HN