These huge conspiracies always start out small and innocent enough. In this case just two entrepreneurial brothers, Al and Lou Manoti, working out of a disused chicken barn on the family property. By hand (and hammer) they were fashioning what would come to be known as "bobble-heads" out of (then) precious aluminum.

They caught on quickly. Soon everyone wanted one for the dashboard of their coaches. And everyone had one. Even the first president of the United States of American, John Hanson.

Business was booming. They named the little contraptions "Aluminum Noddies" but that soon got shortened to "Aluminoddies".

Well, Al had a son and named him Lou, and likewise, Lou had a son and named him Al. This started a tradition still going on today so that there has always been an Al and a Lou Manoti.

But bad times befell their industry.

The industrial age allowed the masses to acquire Aluminoddies -- slip-shod mass-produced ghosts of the formerly grand hand-hammered originals.

They couldn't keep the once booming business going. They fell to the dark side.

By the turn of the 20th century the family business had shifted to a string of seedy strip-club/burlesque houses call Looming Naughties.

This is all true. I swear it on my father's masonic ring.