The Rumor Master
The best place in the world to make up stories and fool people is on the interwebs. First, no one can see your face which usually makes for the most difficult part in a lie. Second, you can reach a mass audience.
I run into the BS stories mostly on sports message boards where every once in a while someone just starts a bogus rumor to see how many people they can fool. Only the worst of the worst liars gets blown out of the water right away. The way to get your answer right away to whether this story is complete BS is to post one of these:
Link please.
or
Link?
They will likely try and make up some ridiculous story about hearing it on the radio and you have about 30 minutes maybe of getting away with that in this day and age. That’s about how long it takes some horrible AP writer to butcher the story and get it flowing a crossed the net.
A good rumor guy who wants to totally piss off a ton of people is tough to find. When one comes along those of us that have started these silly rumors and had them drag on for a few days recognizes them immediately most times, but the average forum user falls for their odd tale.
The Rumor Master in sports posting is always referred to as an “Insider”. They have inside info and a “contact” with in an organization. At least that is what they say anyways. If done correctly a rumor by these masters can spread far and wide and make millions look like fools. This master can even expose lazy reporters on occasion who take this moronic report as true with out doing the research. That is a banner day for The Rumor Master. He has taken it to the masses and is going to piss off millions.
A good team of liars is always helpful when trying to pull off a bogus rumor for a few days. It is always good to have a group of people that will spam other message boards with links to your outrageous trade rumor, firing, or any other lie you want to perpetrate. It is also helpful to have some decent computer memory so you can run a billion windows at once and spam boards and keep up with all the details of your lies.
I suppose it is time to announce one of my other favorite message boards as well. We Roll Hard is a Detroit Sports message board full of total assholes. We are all banned forum members from such places as ESPN.com and RealGM. Instead of getting the bankstick everywhere we went we decided to make a dump of a board and spew our fandom the only way we knew how. With a lot of vulgar language, and no regard for human decency. Feel free to troll this board. There are no rules and no one gets banned.
Anyways, that is the kind of group I am talking about. This group will supply a never ending supply of bullshit on every sports message board online and keep up the charade forever if they can.
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