Dick, why mention "wankers"? Who do you have in mind?

It's not only in academia that bogus information is to be deplored. Brightly shining teeth are a fun concept, but some people have been misled by those words. (Not that Lloyd was the first to produce a spoof: Baring-Gould did it with The Brown Girl.)

It has been pretty clearly demonstrated that Lloyd invented some of his supposed sources. There's a German proverb that translates as "If he tells lies, don't believe him even when he speaks the truth".