[RightOnline]

No no no................you don't know how to play this game. Some twerp claims to have been Sasquatch (interesting with all the sightings all over the northwest and Canada for decades........or longer) and you believe it. Someone says they fake a Nessie photo and you discount eyewitness accounts and other evidence accumulated for many, many years from hundreds of people. You believe it.

Some rubes claim to have made crop circles with boards and rope.........and you can look at the mounds of photographs of incredibly sophisticated "crop circles" from around the world and believe these two rubes did them.

No, dude, YOU are the gullible one.

[Ichneumon]

Some rubes claim to have made crop circles with boards and rope.........

They did.

and you can look at the mounds of photographs of incredibly sophisticated "crop circles" from around the world and believe these two rubes did them.

Straw man fallacy (no pun intended). They may have started the craze, but then other pranksters "from around the world" played copycat when they saw how much of a fuss the circles generated.

It's interesting to note that the temporal and geographic pattern of the spread of the "circles" follows the pattern of the publicity given to them. For example, when local coverage in region X of country Y gives prominent attention to crop circles, then voila, there follow a number of local "sightings". And so on.

No, dude, YOU are the gullible one.

If you say so, Mr. It-Must-Be-Aliens.