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more about #hoax more comments → Klebert L. Hall: "Many were shocked when it was revealed that Falcon Heene's fictitious balloon ride was nothing more than a fame-grabbing hoax" Many? Really? -Kle. #... more » gorehound: i also read all the poe stuff and the verne stuff when i was younger. poe did write some interesting stories. #edgarallanpoe more » Grey_Area: Great post, Lauren, typo (FIXED already!) be damned. It's great that you connected this to the recent Balloon Boy scandal. The original Poe articles ... more » tammygarrison: Man, I love typos. This one's almost a Choose Your Own Adventure. Is Poe in the future, or is HG Wells involved? Or is Jules Vern off having Secret Ad... more » theDreamscapist: [www.harkavagrant.com] #edgarallanpoe more » 92BuickLeSabre: I feel certain the author must actually mean 1944 BCE! 1944 would have been pretty diificult since everyone knows Poe wrote exclusively in cuneifor... more » jamesryan: Maybe it was supposed to be 1944; the typo's in the other author. It was actually H. G. Wells who gets influenced by Poe's ability to travel 100 year... more » OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: It is in fact not a typo. Though Poe "died" in 1849 it certainly was not his last death. #edgarallanpoe more » 92BuickLeSabre: tj I need an example of four different people using four different ways to say the exact same thing one right after the other for a class I'm teachin... more » TheTheTheTheWhat: [www.harkavagrant.com] I'm sorry, I had to. #edgarallanpoe more » Sabbatai: So one day I am in school... high school and I am slightly inebriated (read: very fuxed up) sitting on the sidewalk outside of the cafeteria when a va... more » CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): I remember reading in the news about a guy in the UK who got slightly sloshed. And watched an Independance Day fake broadcast on BBC2. He panicked, gr... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Maybe the kids could get back at them if they all stop dead in their tracks at the exact same moment and start speaking in unison. more » RandomFrequentFlierDent: Didn't the same thing happen during Orson Wells' broadcast of The War of the Worlds, except in America and with over a million adults? more » Grey_Area: Of course next week the school will catch fire. Alarms will go off and the teachers will be yelling, "Everybody queue up and walk out to the yard. the... more » -
#waroftheworldsredux
British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion
Hoping to spark their students' imaginations, a junior school in England staged an alien invasion, complete with a crash landing and the "abduction" of one of their faculty members while the children watched. What could possibly go wrong? More » -
#badscience
Computer-Generated Paper Accepted for Prestigious Technical Conference
A prankster who submitted a computer-generated research paper to the International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering discovered that not only was his fake paper accepted - its "author" is to chair a panel.
