Other Crap

Further proof that The Guardian will print anything. I have often referred to them as "the world's most gullible newspaper," and I didn't even realize that they had printed the famous George Turklebaum hoax! Add this to their coverage of the Presidential I.Q. hoax, and their brilliant conclusion that the Pentagon was preparing for cataclysmic global warming.

• "Sadly, George Turklebaum didn't live to enjoy the drama of the US election. He died of a heart attack on Monday October 23 while sitting at his desk in an open-plan office he shared with 23 others in the New York publishing house where he worked for 30 years as a proofreader. He can't be accused of going out with a bang: it was not until the next Saturday that anyone noticed. 'George was always the first guy here in the morning and the last to leave at night,' explains his boss, Elliot Wachiaski. 'So no one found it unusual he was in the same position all that time.' May he continue to rest in peace."
• This story, of course, is notonly false, but could not be true, for various reasons involving the impact on a human body of a little thing I like to call "death." But I guess they were willing to suspend the physical laws of the universe based on the extremely reliable source: that bastion of journalistic responsibility, The Weekly World News