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Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 10:01amSanction this postReply
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For additional info on this, the funniest news story ever, check out http://lionvs40midgets.uk-directory.com/.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 10:04amSanction this postReply
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Ah, another fact-checking triumph from the mainstream media (MSM). Hilarious parody.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 10:37amSanction this postReply
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I agree that it was both a parody, AND the funniest news story EVAR!!!

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Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 7:02pmSanction this postReply
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Excellent Find,

You know the media is in a sad state if one can accidently cause them to report not only false but flagrantly idiotic news.  I wonder if it would be possible for a collection of bloggers to target mainstream media sources and feed them misinformation just to see if they would check their sources.  Would be an interesting media watch dog method.  It would be far more interesting than waiting for them to admit their wrong doings in the middle pages of their own publications.

~E.


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Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 7:33pmSanction this postReply
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Loved both the article and the story behind it.

Eric - Unless I'm missing something, this wasn't actually ever reported anywhere.

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Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 7:02amSanction this postReply
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clowns and midgets just plain *freak* me out.

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Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 10:30amSanction this postReply
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Midget teams never do get a decent break in entertainment.

A while back I read in Polanski's autobiography (Roman, by Polanski) that he once had a project to do a hardcore porn flick in France with a large team of midget wrestlers. Apparently the funding fell through at the last minute.

Michael


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Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 1:25pmSanction this postReply
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Angela,

ha ha!
Nope, looks like I missed it all... 

~E.


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