Thank you for your confidence everyone: If I wanted to wind
everyone up, dont you think I would have found a funnier way
of doing it than this?

You'd be amazed at some of the stupid stuff you see in UseNet groups. I've
never seen any of these that were actually funny.

The problem is that you are describing something that doesn't seem to make
any sense, or have any obvious explanation. This quite naturally makes
people suspicious.