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What's your approach to them? Do you happen to like any so much due to their being really ingenious and cunning, that you wish the people who came up with them weren't ever discovered? What are your favorites?

Al Gore

Bump! It's time for bumping my old threads in hope someone will have something to share with the others in them

Seconded.

George Bush's "Mission Accomplished" farce.

No bigger hoax in the last ten decade.

I despise them. When I'm lining people up to be shot after the revolution, their perpetrators will be a long way down the queue (after all, they're not that important), standing next to conspiracy theorists and whoever wrote that f*****g "what life was like in the 15th century" chain letter.

Like jinxes?

I sometimes believe in them and sometimes don't.

Walking underneath a ladder isn't normally a smart thing to do anyways.

Lol, one teen in my country just faked suicide, as the result of which step, for the next two days, the police was looking for his dead body in the waves of the Baltic Sea where he located it in his suicide note. It turned out that he just... run away from home He looked quite Asian so many folks commented on the net that maybe the reason for his death was bullying on the part of his racist classmates but no, it was just one silly (white - just looking quite Chinese like with those slant eyes) boy who run away from home

One of my favorite historical hoaxes is Piltdown Man...one hundred years later, no one is positive who the hoaxer was....Sylkat

I decided on bumping some old threads of mine, so...

"If you like your health insurance, you can keep it"

Crop Circles.....especially the 'Crop Rectangle' in California a week ago!

I come from Wiltshire (England), where we had many crop circles about twenty years ago. I used to ride, and we decided to ride into a couple of the circles to check them out. I can tell you that some horses (even some of the normally sensible ones) were completely freaked out and would refuse to go near the circles.

Manti Te'o's girlfriend.

The biggest hoax of all time using the word normal in any way speaking of humans. The myth of average link.

Leo Taxil's anti-Masonic hoax even though exposed by its perpetrator (in order to make the people who believed it look like fools) is still believed by some conspiracy theorists to this day. The illustrations in Taxil's books are fantastic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxil_hoax