What? No The Diary of a Young Girl?

Is anybody better at Wikipedia than Cracked?

Don't forget the carlos casteneda crapeda.

The picture of the Shinnecock Indian made me giggle a little.

What? No:

Cracked. Of course we're original. Just look at our lists--sometimes they're five things, sometimes they're seven, sometimes they're 12! You never know where we're coming from, baby. You think you're getting eight items all written in the same angst-ridden, I've-seen-the-edge-of-existence-and-nothing-surprises-me post-graduate and pre-job hipster coffee house voice, and NO! You GET NINE!! HAHAHAHAHA.

I'm surprised "Go Ask Alice" and "Coming of Age in Samoa" aren't on the list.

I'm trying to remember a "true" book hoax that happened in the late 60's or early 70's. It was a very popular book at the time. I want to say to was Erica Jong's "Fear of Flying" but Wikipedia says she's a real person.

I heard the story on "To Tell The Truth" and apparently this book was written by guys working at a newspaper, passing it around and each guy writing a different chapter, often out of order or not having known what another guy had written. It was a pretty amazing hoax that the book got published and popular. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Not a book, but still.

DamnYankees: Not a book, but still.

Much of the individual items in Fargo are true, but they are cobbled from different cases. I was in MN shortly after the movie came out and a lot of the locals were talking about William H. Macy's character and whom he was based on, but I forget the guy's name. The guy did try to have his wife kidnapped, but he was found out before he could go through with the plan. The wood-chipper incident is from CT, though.

Athiests seen shaking tiny impotent fists over obvious omission

Dianetics? Or the other one?

Subby is trying too hard for a flamewar.

abb3w: Subby is trying too hard for a flamewar.

I think the mods added the 2nd sentence.

We should steer the conversation away from that and towards people who take The Lord of the Rings way, way too seriously. Those people freak me out.

What, no, "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things?"

JT LeRoy FTW.

Tr0mBoNe: abb3w: Subby is trying too hard for a flamewar.

I think the mods added the 2nd sentence.

We should steer the conversation away from that and towards people who take The Lord of the Rings way, way too seriously. Those people freak me out.

If we don't take the History of Middle Earth seriously, we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of our ancestors. Is that really what you want?

An Inconvenient Truth?

Guys, I think subby is talking about some bible thing. Must not be important since it didn't make the list....

The God Delusion?

Holy, friggin, zzzzzz...

TripSixes: Don't forget the carlos casteneda crapeda.

I came in here to say this.

Howard Hughes?

The Education of Little Tree.

Tr0mBoNe: abb3w: Subby is trying too hard for a flamewar.

I think the mods added the 2nd sentence.

We should steer the conversation away from that and towards people who take The Lord of the Rings way, way too seriously. Those people freak me out.

Heh. Agree.

/and not to belabor, but how can something that can neither be proven true nor false by man be a lie?

not just atheists subby

abb3w: Subby is trying too hard for a flamewar.

Eh, if this had been movies, they'd be talking about passion of the christ or whatever. Same thing.

#1 The 9/11 commision report

They forgot Naked Came the Stranger, by "Penelope Ashe"

Earguy: I'm trying to remember a "true" book hoax that happened in the late 60's or early 70's. It was a very popular book at the time. I want to say to was Erica Jong's "Fear of Flying" but Wikipedia says she's a real person.

I heard the story on "To Tell The Truth" and apparently this book was written by guys working at a newspaper, passing it around and each guy writing a different chapter, often out of order or not having known what another guy had written. It was a pretty amazing hoax that the book got published and popular. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Sorry, That would be Naked Came the Stranger. And th follow up book about the hoax is How to Write Dirty Books for Fun and Profit.

I'm glad to see that Rigoberta Menchu wasn't included on here. I think a lot of David Stoll's criticism was unreasonable and some of the inaccuracy may have come from mistranslation. It also doesn't detract from any of the reality of the book.

You know, people take Cracked to task for lists but David Eggers has been beating that particular horse to death for almost a decade with McSweeney's.

theorellior: TripSixes: Don't forget the carlos casteneda crapeda.

I came in here to say this.

As did I.

Castaneda's legacy held strong tho. His subject matter was such trippy stuff, he was able to get away with saying it was just a unique writing device.

LadyHawke: The picture of the Shinnecock Indian made me giggle a little.

They are out in the Hamptons, FYI. I went to their pow-wow a while back. What's wild is that they were all African-American blacks.

And the name always made me giggle.

Best one is The Princess Bride.

But seriously, who cares? Most gangsta rap is on the same level, done by rich kids who were never in a gang.

Oliver Stone's JFK

Earguy
I'm trying to remember a "true" book hoax that happened in the late 60's or early 70's. It was a very popular book at the time. I want to say to was Erica Jong's "Fear of Flying" but Wikipedia says she's a real person.

Maybe Clifford Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes? He went to jail for fraud on that one.

Most athy? Learn to spell, trollmitter.

You're a beaner towel

Why don't the cracked links have the SPONSOR tag?

Pocket Ninja: Cracked. Of course we're original. Just look at our lists--sometimes they're five things, sometimes they're seven, sometimes they're 12! You never know where we're coming from, baby. You think you're getting eight items all written in the same angst-ridden, I've-seen-the-edge-of-existence-and-nothing-surprises-me post-graduate and pre-job hipster coffee house voice, and NO! You GET NINE!! HAHAHAHAHA.

6/10
Could have used a few more -s

*Invokes Allistaire Cooke Voice*
"The modern world view, with its more literal scientific concept of truth, began to emerge around the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries during the Renaissance. Classical learning was rediscovered, and along with it ancient methods of critical inquiry. Scholars began to take a more skeptical look at texts and became more concerned about the authenticity of manuscripts. (See Renaissance Forgeries.)

The sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation sharpened this mood of skepticism even further by giving scholars strong ideological reasons to prove that their Protestant or Catholic opponents were either wrong or lying. Accusations flew back and forth, and out of this heated cultural environment, in which sensitivity to deception was greatly heightened, the modern awareness of hoaxing emerged.

The word "hoax" itself dates from this era. It is said that Protestant jesters and conjurors began ridiculing the Latin phrase intoned by Catholic priests during the Mass, Hoc est corpus meum, by corrupting it into the nonsense phrase hocus-pocus. They shouted this phrase whenever they performed a trick. From hocus-pocus it was a simple step to arrive at the word hoax".

American Decency Association: not just atheists subby





Tell me about it.

LadyHawke: The picture of the Shinnecock Indian made me giggle a little.

I giggled, too. What are we, twelve?

Please stop
putting Cracked lists
up at Fark.

There's no point. We're all well aware of Cracked, if we wanted to read their stupid lists, we would go do it. This isn't news, it isn't new at all. They've just cobbled some related things together. What other humor websites should we be putting up? At least they haven't put any Homestarrunner up for a while.

Thus: Hoc Est Popus

What about The Life of Pi? Had people say they thought the whole tiger part was the true part. Rather than the animals being representations of his mother and the crazy guy.

There's a distinction between something being a lie and being false. Religion is only a lie if there has been intent to deceive. Atheists (note spelling) do not, in general, suggest that religion is a lie.