I'm going to do a sanity-saving thing here and withdraw from this thread now. It's been nice chatting with everyone, but I'm clearly now only inciting more conspiracists, and to be completely honest, that both spooks and exhausts me. I see this as a snowballing uphill battle.

Best of luck with your conspiracies! (I'm not sure what the proper parting words are here.) Marlboro, I hope we'll talk again. I respect what you've said here.