Net fans jolted by man's blog hoax

San Jose Mercury News ^ | June 28,2004 | BY MICHAEL BAZELEY

[Chad Fairbanks]

I like their monthly email... Funny stuff. Sick, but funny ;0)

[Lijahsbubbe]

when I have to carry extra equipment on secret missions, it gets a little, shall we say "uncomfortable

Bwahaha

[Threepwood]

Wow. That site is hard-core. They have some creepy people modeling their products.

I think I'll go hang out at
http://www.vatican.va/ for bit.

Bye for now!

[Ken H]

Looks like I may to have to change my tagline.

[xm177e2]

In a telephone interview, Soli said the character helped him deal with the pressures of his own life, including a rare disease that is killing him

It sounds like he's still bulls----ing.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Yeah, I saw that. I sure wouldn't give him the benefit of the doubt!

[malakhi]

Now the person behind Layne has come forward and admitted that it was all an elaborate hoax. ... And it demonstrates how easy it is for the Internet to foster intimacy among total strangers.

Fortunately, nothing like this ever happens on FR.

[NYCVirago]

In 2001, he was diagnosed with a rare heart disease that he says will likely kill him before he is 50.

Why should we believe this guy is really sick? He's already hoaxed people once.

[Lijahsbubbe]

As Michael Moore, er, P.T. Barnum said, "there's a sucker born every minute".

[Junior]

Actually, I'm a semi-supernatural, dimension-hopping adventurer who seems to have gotten stuck in this dead-end section of the multiverse. If I ever catch that damned truck driver who dropped me off here, I'll throttle him.

[Junior]

DitHF, call your service.

[Dog Gone]

At one point, she revealed she was raped, causing her to re-examine her sexual identity and become a lesbian.

Same thing happened to me.

[tnlibertarian]

I never claimed to be an underwear model. I don't wear any...

[Insert favorite armadillo joke here]

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Everyone on the internet seems to a jet-setting, underwear model, captain of industry with a bunch of commando skills.

Time to come clean.

I'm a typing cat. My hobbies are naps, sticking my head inside shoes, naps, eating, naps, chasing little red dots, naps, coughing up hair balls, naps, jumping on sleeping humans, naps, trying to trip the human slave and Freeping.

I also take naps.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Thanks for the link to tshirt hell. I ain't laughed that hard in awhile.

[paulat]

"Eh. I'm not surprised. Everyone on the internet seems to a jet-setting, underwear model, captain of industry with a bunch of commando skills.

Reality is something else altogether."


You forgot "gourmet cook." I'm a gourmet cook, too....

[Floratina]

and she lived Deep In The Hurtgen Forest..

[Threepwood]

And a lawyer, weapons engineer, and historian right?;)

[Rebelbase]

If someone comes along and tells me FARK isn't real I'll be depressed.

[Old Professer]

This is why I waste no time on compassion.