The sorry truth came out when police investigated the incident. When pressed by the authorities, the unnamed 19-year-old Richmond, Virginia-area teen admitted inventing the tale for her grandmother's benefit because she had been late getting home. The deception backfired when her concerned grandmot...
It has been annoying me for a long time. More than two years ago, when I was on Facebook, I bristled when some yokel claimed that a story was true. He had, you see, “Snoped it.” In other words, he had gone to an imperial source and found the truth. How easy to lie to th...
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has shamefully accused Israel of deliberately starving the people of Gaza. This is utter complete nonsense. It's a complete fabrication. Israel has enabled more than 40,008 trucks to enter Gaza. That's half a million tons of fo...
) For them we note that at least two humorous aspects of the clip (inserted intentionally or otherwise) give it away as a post-Apollo fabrication:Advertisement:1) The "astronaut" in the clip flubs the "One small step ..." line (by omitting the word "a" between the words "for" and ...
While the above-displayed image may not show Elvis and a blind girl, and while the claim that Elvis gave a blind girl $50,000 and a ticket (plus travel expenses) to his future shows is certainly a fabrication, there is at least one grain of truth to this story. In 1957, a blind ...
Q: For the past month, the blogosphere has been filled with rumors about the future of your marriage. How are you holding up? Duane: Mark Twain said it best: "A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." So I'm not going to defend myself ag...
The truth lies somewhere in between. Advertisement: Much of the confusion stems from a 1969 book by Wallace Reyburn, Flushed with Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper. Reyburn's "biography" of Crapper has often been dismissed as a complete fabrication, as some of his other works (most ...
"Disney had to have gotten that idea from somewhere," said Thomas McDonough, the state wildlife biologist. Disney likely confused dispersal with migration, he added, and embellished a kernel of truth. Lemming populations fluctuate enormously based on predators, food, climate and other factors. Under...