Category: Bogus
Pseudo-electroplating.
Scientists discover a 2000-year-old coin that was counterfeited using a process thought to be unknown to metallurgists of the day. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, March 28th, 2006.
Here lies BMW.
Ohio man buries his car to collect insurance.
Post date: Wednesday, January 18th, 2006.
Not for sale. Not for free.
Post date: Thursday, January 5th, 2006.
Dead Body Guy.
Man who wants to play dead for a living. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
All your BS.
Chinese ‘corporation’ headquartered in $150/mo rental apartment tenders $450 billion bid for Exxon.
Post date: Tuesday, November 1st, 2005.
I see dead people.
Outdoor marketing campaign that used people made up to look like they had been murdered.
Post date: Friday, October 21st, 2005.
Alien zapper.
Object initially mistaken for a bomb was in fact a device that was ‘supposed to set off vibrations that would keep aliens away‘. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 18th, 2005.
Free Juan!
Florida sheriff has wrongly accused a stuffed animal of ‘loitering’.
Post date: Tuesday, October 18th, 2005.
Esquivalience.
Investigator exposes a made-up word in the New Oxford English Dictionary. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 27th, 2005.
Recognizing phonies.
To combat a growing scamming problem, the city of Shanghai has created an illustrated guide on how to tell real beggars from from fake ones. (via)
Post date: Monday, September 26th, 2005.
Kidsbeer.
A nonalcoholic beer has been created to target children and is being packaged in brown bottles to look like real beer. (via)
Post date: Monday, September 26th, 2005.
Bogus Air.
Airliner fakes emergency so that passengers can watch a soccer game.
Post date: Wednesday, September 21st, 2005.
Piano woman.
Piano Man, Part II: Naked woman who apparently can’t speak found walking along a beach in Hong Kong.
Post date: Thursday, September 8th, 2005.
Customer incentive.
Overdue phone bill customer in England receives late notice telling him to pay up or else he will be ‘hospitalized‘. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
It’s been real.
The mysterious Piano Man, the supposed mute piano-playing prodigy who was found on a British beach back in April, reveals his hoax and goes back home to Germany.
Post date: Monday, August 22nd, 2005.
Not armed or dangerous.
Radio station stunt that had three listeners dress like escaped inmates trying to hitch a ride backfired when dozens of ‘terrified’ motorists called 911.
Post date: Monday, August 15th, 2005.
Not like the Oompa Loompa doompadee do.
Man’s claim to being an Oompa Loompa in the original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory proves to be as phony as this author claiming to have found the fifth golden ticket.
Post date: Wednesday, August 10th, 2005.
Woo hoo! Doh!
Florida Lotto to woman: $250,000 winning ticket was a misprint. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005.
Please disperse.
Hair sample tested earlier this week is not from Bigfoot.
Post date: Friday, July 29th, 2005.
B.S.
Proof that there are trade associations for just about everything.
Post date: Wednesday, June 29th, 2005.
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