…or, The Birth and Death of a Spinoff Web Site
Sure: a picture is “worth 1,000 words.” Sometimes it’s worth 1,000 minutes on your cell phone plan, as in this case. The story, from True’s 27 December 2009 issue:
Obliviots/Idiots
A Clever Disguise…?
Once again, a picture is worth a thousand words. But I’m not sure that in this case, two pictures are worth two thousand words!
Dell Hell and Dumb People
I know This is True is about people doing dumb things, but it still amazes me when people do dumb things to me. (But for once, this is not about a dumb reader!)
Bambi Get Your Gun
Another story that begs to be illustrated by the photo mentioned. From True’s 13 September 2009 issue:
Bear Country
A few comments about this week’s lead story, about the encounter between a bear and a Colorado woman. If the location sounds somehow familiar, it’s because that’s where I live.
Weird News Video #45 — Road Runner vs Coyote
Episode #45: “Howling Mad”, from True’s 12 April 2009 issue.
Weird News Video #44 — Integrity, Schmegrity
Episode #44: “Define ‘Integrity’?”, from True’s 5 April 2009 issue.
Weird News Video #42 — Facebook Addict
Episode #42: “Virtual Life”, from True’s 22 March 2009 issue.
Tardwit
Important Update Below
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Sundays are writing day around here: it’s the day I write This is True each week. This week, I had the usual line-up of stories about stupid people doing stupid things (or, as the case may be, smart people doing stupid things!) when I came across the story of Mark Rimkufski from the weirdest state in the union, which is of course Florida.
Weird News Video #40 — Hide in Plain Sight
Episode #40: “Hide in Plain Sight”, from True’s 8 March 2009 issue.
Weird News Video #39 — In the Line of Doody
Episode #39: “In the Line of Doody”, from True’s 1 March 2009 issue.
Weird News Video #35 — Keystone Criminals
Episode #35: “Keystone Criminals”, from True’s 1 February 2009 issue.
Weird News Video #34 — Booze Meets Stupid
Episode #34: “Booze Meets Stupid”, from True’s 25 January 2009 issue.
Weird News Video #15 — Little People
Episode #15: “A Politician Voters Deserve” (aka, Ode to the “Little People”), from True’s 14 September 2008 issue.
Weird News Video #4 — Thong Bandits
Episode #4: “Don’t Swipe Your Disguise From Your Girlfriend”, from True’s 29 June 2008 issue.
Weird News Video #3 — Visionary
Episode #3: “Visionary”, from True’s 22 June 2008 issue.
Duct Tape Robber
In last week’s issue there was the story of an alleged robber who wrapped his head in duct tape as a disguise. But I forgot that I had photos of this brain surgeon to show you! But first, the story, from the 9 September issue:
Echo! (Echo!)
(Heh! When I hit ‘Save’ on this entry, there was a net.burp and, for the first time ever, I got a duplicate post. Figures it would happen with that title, eh? 🙂 )
Sometimes I Delight In finding two or three weird stories in a short amount of time, and running them all together in the same issue. It happens more often than you might think (especially if you’re not a Premium subscriber, and don’t see all the stories).
Cassingham’s Laws
After tagging a story with “Cassingham’s Second Law”, I got a pile of email asking me to post what my first law was. So here you go.
Pretend PETA Apologist
I really had to chuckle when I got this whine — it’s not from a reader, but rather an apologist for an organization I wrote about last year. Deborah, who didn’t say where she is, stumbled across the page on my site about the “controversy” and wrote: