The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77932   Message #1395217
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
31-Jan-05 - 10:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ring Around the Facts - Create-a-History
Subject: RE: BS: Ring Around the Facts - Create-a-History
None taken.

"Bee-Dubya" has just posted a very accurate parody of the kind of thing that appears on websites all over the place. What's frightening is that it is so close to what's actually out there that it reads just like the "real thing". Before long, it will appear out there as "the truth".

They do mistake that sort of thing for fact, because they are morons. They then publish it as fact (almost never with any source acknowledged) and innocent beginners find it, and repeat it...

...and so on. I've wasted so much time tracking all that sort of thing down to some kind of putative source (often, I'm afraid, this very mudcat) in order to answer people's questions as accurately as I can that I really don't want to add to the complete bollocks that the innocent idiots repeat all over the place.

Sorry if that sounds humourless. Practical jokes can be hilarious, but it's usually somebody else who has to clean up afterwards. Not so funny for them.