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    Make Your Own Thought-Screen Helmet and Prevent Alien Abduction
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/13/09

    In reply to Make Your Own Thought-Screen Helmet and Prevent Alien Abduction
    I wonder if she's wearing Velostat underwear too....
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    11/25/08

    In reply to Make Your Own Thought-Screen Helmet and Prevent Alien Abduction
    I love the directions for use, in particular:


    2. Have a locked cabinet.

    &

    4. Secure the helmet with tape or string.


    So aliens have psychic powers(according to the site) and can cross vast distances of space/dimensions, but locks and a knot/tape are above their grasp.

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    08/12/09

    @GitEmSteveDave+$240InPudding: is that any more ridiculous than aliens, that are deathly allergic to water, invading a planet that's 70% water?
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    10/13/09

    @psychiccheese: They were forward thinking aliens striving to overcome the limitations of their species..
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    11/24/08

    In reply to Make Your Own Thought-Screen Helmet and Prevent Alien Abduction
    Their magic though blocking material, "Velostat", looks mysteriously like the screen material from my back door.
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    11/24/08

    In reply to Make Your Own Thought-Screen Helmet and Prevent Alien Abduction
    "StopAbduction.com".... you weren't shitty us!? The internet is a wonderful and pathetic thing.
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    11/25/08

    @tamoko: My favorite testimonial from the site:


    "Since trying Michael Menkin's Helmet, I have not been bothered by alien mind control. Now my thoughts are my own. I have achieved meaningful work and am contributing to society.


    My life is better than ever before. Thank you Michael for the work you are doing to save all humanity."


    I just want to know what employer hired this thought-screen-helmet wearing lunatic.


    The most disturbing realization I had when browsing the site is that the people who make these hats aren't just being cautious IN CASE aliens try to abduct or control them at some point in the future, they actually believe they are the victims of frequent (if not CONSTANT) alien mind control attempts.

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    11/25/08

    @vinylrake: Yeah, I just went back to the site an dgave it some indepth study. Wow these people are bat-shit crazy. Perhaps they've overlooked the possibility that teh aliens have tapped into the InterTubes, and every time someone visits their site, they just becoming another Manchurian canidate.
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    11/24/08

    In reply to Make Your Own Thought-Screen Helmet and Prevent Alien Abduction
    The chin strap... the chin strap!
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    11/25/08

    @tamoko: wow I wasn't far off. From the site:


    "4. Secure the helmet with tape or string.

    Almost any kind of tape or string wrapped around the helmet several times will prevent aliens from removing the helmet if they manage to get close to you."

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    11/25/08

    @vinylrake: Like the least you'd have to worry about was them taking off your anti-alien mind control helmet. Can we all say "probes"?
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    11/24/08

    In reply to Make Your Own Thought-Screen Helmet and Prevent Alien Abduction
    Man, I wish I'd known about this before spending $500,000 on Scientology. It's so much cheaper to banish the aliens from my brain with tinfoil!
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    11/24/08

    @riotnrrd: Not tinfoil - Velostat! :)
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    11/24/08

    In reply to Make Your Own Thought-Screen Helmet and Prevent Alien Abduction
    Oh yes, very stylish.
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    11/24/08

    In reply to Make Your Own Thought-Screen Helmet and Prevent Alien Abduction
    That helmet may protect her from aliens, but is powerless against my undress-you-with-my-eyes gaze.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/24/08

    @nonpareil: That's just the aliens controlling your thoughts. You need one of these hats!
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    11/25/08

    @nonpareil: This is really causing an internal debate within me. Do I stand by my scientific and skeptical notions, or do I abandon them for a pretty face and empty noggin?
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