Hoax Watch

[everso]

Ahh. Music to accompany a Jackson Pollock painting.

[Weyland]

Aug 29, 2011 23:44:11 GMT everso said:

Ahh. Music to accompany a Jackson Pollock painting.

I once stayed with a friend of a friend in Gallup, New Mexico (yes, that one). A more stereotypical redneck one could not hope to meet. He had a rough-looking dog called Jackson which I couldn't help calling Pollock. He was not amused. (The redneck, not the dog.)

[Only redneck I ever met (apart from some Young Conservatives years ago). An experience to say the least.]

[jean]

The point is that Jackson Pollock was serious, but Piotr Zak never existed.

I'd like to think I'd have spotted the hoax if I'd heard the programme before I knew that, but I didn't.

[everso]

Aug 30, 2011 10:13:08 GMT jean said:

The point is that Jackson Pollock was serious, but Piotr Zak never existed.

I'd like to think I'd have spotted the hoax if I'd heard the programme before I knew that, but I didn't.

Well, really, the point is that I didn't know the difference - and who could blame me? There are some composers who compose such rubbish and some painters who fool the critics into thinking they are artists.

[Weyland]

Aug 30, 2011 10:13:08 GMT jean said:

The point is that Jackson Pollock was serious, but Piotr Zak never existed.

I think Ev was placing Pollock's "art" on a similar level as the fictional Piotr's. In critics' terminology, a waste of good paint.

I'd like to think I'd have spotted the hoax if I'd heard the programme before I knew that, but I didn't.

Which was it? Heard the programme after, or didn't spot?

[trubble]

LIONS roaming Shepley....

WEST Yorkshire Police pride themselves on thorough investigations.

And they have now confirmed that despite a two-hour hunt for a lion cub in Shepley, the incident is being treated as a hoax.

However police investigating the sightings in Shepley took the three calls deadly seriously on Sunday afternoon and dispatched 12 officers to search the village.

The search even disrupted rail passengers who were not allowed to get off at Shepley station because one report said the lion had been seen on the lines.



One sighting was in the car park of The Cask and Swindle pub in Abbey Road, a second at Birdsedge about two miles away and a third on the railway line at Shepley.

But after the extensive search involving a police helicopter the inquiry was brought to a close with no lions found, and no further sightings.

[Alpha Hooligan]

Well, it looked like a lion...




AH

[Alpha Hooligan]

I'm hungry, bring me a gazelle...and a water buffalo.




AH

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[aubrey]

We were once buying some *something* off a bloke, and he had a big dog, blonde coloured, but big. He told us that there had been a story in the local paper about a kangaroo having been seen in the town, and after a bit worked out that his dog, sitting beside the road waiting to cross, could have looked a bit like a kangaroo if someone in a car had seen him for a second or so - big haunches, if that's the word I want; if he lifted his front paws from the ground... (Actually, he was right - easy mistake to make.)

[trubble]

You get a letter in the post from a marketing company. It offers you a free crate of beer. All you have to do is turn up at an agreed meeting point to collect it.

Be warned!

[everso]

Oh man, I loved that when I heard it on the news yesterday. I defy anybody not to laugh.

[aubrey]

How did these people not know it was a trick? Chief Wiggum even used it in The Simpsons, for gods' sake.

[everso]

Nov 13, 2011 18:07:31 GMT aubrey said:

How did these people not know it was a trick? Chief Wiggum even used it in The Simpsons, for gods' sake.

Bekos dey is fick, fick, fick.