[js2]

Back in the late nineties, I and a few coworkers called Gene Ray, the Time Cube guy. We were sure his site was parody. After a few minutes conversation, we concluded he was sincere. Therein lies the danger of extreme parody -- there are enough oddballs out there that you can't immediately discount something as parody.

[nommm-nommm]

I want to believe the Flat Earth Society is parody... but I know a Flat Earther and he's totality serious. :-/

[vocatus_gate]

I wintered over in Antarctica last year, and regularly had people DM'ing me on Instagram (probably searched for the #antarctica hashtag) and asking if it was actually real, if it was really an ice wall, if there were "secret military blackout zones" etc. It was pretty funny. I always took time out to answer them, but often I'd have to block them once it became apparent they were never going to be convinced.

[dpc59]

Ask him about mountains if you want to see olympic levels of mental gymnastics.