is this true? or not...

[tipou]

like many of you, probably, i sometimes scoure the news in hope of finding info on my current obsessions, be it radishes, rufus, book publishing, watercolour, and so on, ond so forth.

although i've seen my share of weird news, i never cease to be amazed at the stupidity of some "journalists" who will tackle just any idiotic subject with the seriousness of a vatican p.r. person.

and more often than not, you end up wondering if the "news" is true or not. you end up feeling guilty even believing for a second that it might be.

examples?
-obsessed by their weight, tom cruise and his wife are starving themselves to death.
-warren beatty bedded over 3000 women.
-james franco is able to show emotion.

yes, the point is, we can never come up with such outrageous tidbits of useless and derisive information if we tried.
or could we?
and if we did, could others tell the difference?

here is my challenge: to find some piece of "news" on the internet, OR invent one from scratches, and post it here. and let us try to guess whether it is true (not as in "accurate" but as in "published", if you understand the difference....)

in other words, did someone actually get paid to put the piece of crap up for public gluttony, or is it a total spoof.

of course, if you are using a story on the web as your source, dont quote it word by word, it might be to easy to trace. but cut and paste the url somewhere if you do, so you can prove us that, indeed, you were not twisted enough to come up with such garbage.

remember, the object of the game is not to prove anything is true, it probably is not anyway. let's not give too much credit to the maggots.

shall i begin? see you in next post. try and tell if i, or someone else, have too much time on their hands.

[tipou]

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES... OR MADE UP?

( seen on a major canadian web service this morning. the article was tackling the up and downs in celebrities carreers )

apparently, in 2005, rufus sewell almost signed a contract that would have bound him to a very embarrassing contract in canada. he could have been forced to spend at least 2 years as the host of the most stupid game show ever imagined - so stupid, in fact, that it never got made.

worse, it would have been showed on canadian television, coast to coast.

the game show would have gone like this: guests from the crowd (chosen as they do on the price is right, basically) share very private and shameful things from their pasts, and if the public likes what they hear, they would then be invited to chose between door number one, or door number two. one door would show a prize (money, a trip, home theater units, nice things). the other would hide a clown holding a bucket of some disgusting liquid that would be thrown on the contestant. all the while, lewd jokes and improper behaviour would be encouraged, since the show was to be aired very late at night.

and how did rufus almost got mingled with that horror? well... he had been approached by a producer during a dinner in toronto where wine had been generously poured. the producer (who actually had a contract with him, ready to sign!!!!) was not much into details, though, and so he let rufus be convinced that he was in fact getting hired to play the lead in the most prestigious series in canadian television history, a role for which many actors were ready to sell their own mothers.

but rufus, even though he was apparently quite drunk, got a hint that something was very wrong when he said: "so jonathan did not get the part after all?", and the guy said "jonathan who?"

of course, rufus was alluding to jonathan rhys-meyers, who ended up playing henry VIII in "The Tudors".

while rufus was about to sign a contract to become the host of "The Two Doors"

[peach]

I'd say he'd have to be drunk (very) to agree to such a boneheaded idea. I think he'd prefer to live in a box on the side of a road rather than go to Canada. (did I just say that???) I mean to host a rather lame game show. I think your having us on, and say this is a flat out lie. Then again I could be wrong. But my vote is this is false.

[tipou]

well... according to the article, he did not sign, but was tempted, since the guy kept telling him that he wanted him for "the tudors" (tow doors, in fact) but he looked too cheesy.

[peach]

photoshop or real? You decide.

[tipou]

no, this is real. he's my next door neighbour.

[dirtygirldiva]

Maria Von Trapp is cheating on the Captain!!

[dirtygirldiva]

A man in Britain stacked so much garbage in his house that he had to create tunnels to walk through his own home. After neighbors didn't see him for several days they called the cops and they sent in a special team to crawl through the trash. Eventually they found the body of the old man and have since said they think he died of dehydration after becoming confused and lost in his own maze of sh**.

[tipou]

i got that one late, DGD
but i would say : TRUE