Word: hoax
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...word "fun" means, you are not having any. A minute ago, I looked it up, coming first to its unpleasant neighbors on the dictionary page, "fungus," and "funest," which means "portending death or evil." (The root: funus, funeral or destruction.) Then, Fun: n. 1) a practical joke, a hoax; 2) sport, merriment, frolicsome amusement, playful action or speech; 3) a source of amusement, an object of ridicule...
...Well, midsummer hopes for fun in the second sense; but sometimes fun deteriorates into the first or third, into hoax or ridicule...
...Noch's: Pinnociho's, a great place for a midnight slice of pizza and cramped dining. Rhymes with "hoax...
...VBS/LoveLetter virus is no hoax," Osterberg said. "It is an actual virus, with real-life destructive capabilities...
...agreement on how the transition to taxation could be made. The commission is also expected to recommend that Congress repeal the 3 percent telephone excise tax that mars the phone bills of Americans. Another recommendation would urge Congress to permanently ban taxes on Internet access. (Maybe that modem tax hoax had some effect after all.) MORE...