
Image #1: Massive tsunami destroys
the island of Phuket, Thailand.
Choose one: Is it Real or Fake?
An apocryphal, secondhand story, told as true and just plausible enough to be believed...

Viral images portraying animals in a variety of credulity-stretching contexts: giant house pets, wayward predators, albino wildlife, and more!
These side-by-side photos purport to illustrate a fundamental difference between President Obama and his Republican rival in the 2012 election, Mitt Romney. One shows Obama engaging in a convivial "fist-bump" with a janitor; the other appears to show Romney indulging in an airport shoeshine. Fair comparison?
Have you heard the one about the Texas lady who asked if she could have a copy of the Neiman Marcus chocolate chip cookie recipe, then found she was charged $250 for it on her credit card statement?
To paraphrase an old Klingon proverb, "Revenge is a dish best served warm out of the oven."
Come to find out, that news story circulating for the past two weeks about a Polish dentist pulling out every one of her ex-boyfriend's teeth because he jilted her is one hundred percent bunk.
Police in Wroclaw, Poland, where the incident purportedly took place, say they have no record of it. Polish journalists have tried, in vain, to locate the alleged dentist, Dr. Anna Mackowiak, and her alleged victim, Marek Olszewski. Quite simply, it never happened. Read More...
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