Word: hoaxing
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...life (or, at least, their product) upon all decent Bostonians, succeeded in making the city and its denizens look, well, stupid. Fiends! They must be smoked out. Luckily, the Boston Police Department (BPD) unclothed the cartoonish mask of these devices to reveal their true nature as a hoax of a hoax of a wide-scale deliberate terrorist attack and responded accordingly. The first device was reported at 8:18 a.m. By 10:21 a.m., the BPD had blown up the box of lights with a water cannon (no radical laser was readily available) and determined that it was harmless. Over...
...mails sent Saturday night appearing to be sent by the puerile minds of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, claimed to announce Harvard’s next president. The paltry rehash of a former hoax sparked momentary confusion in the student body...
...first e-mail, sent at 7:20 p.m. from “The Presidential Search Committee,” was immediately recognizable to some as a hoax when it alluded to a 1958 King Arthur novel by announcing “the reinstatement of Lawrence H. Summers as Harvard’s once and future president...
...TIME noted that senator James Inhofe called global-warming science a "hoax." Given a choice of hoaxes, I'll take Gore's humanitarian crusade over the Bush Administration's "war on terror" any day. Carlos O. Santacruz Doral, Florida...
Time noted that Senator James Inhofe has called global-warming science a "hoax." Given a choice of hoaxes, I'll take Gore's humanitarian crusade over the Bush Administration's misguided "war on terror" any day. CARLOS O. SANTACRUZ Doral...