“It couldn’t be the plates themselves, because that would mean that 8 other people would also have had to lie about seeing them. And we all know that it’s impossible to put together a pack of 8 liars. Liars just aren’t that easy to find.”
Surely you wrote that tongue-in-cheek!
The 8 “witnesses” were anything but men of character...
I’ll take it as humor :-)
You are correct. I was attempting to make my post drip with sarcasm. I guess I failed, at least for pennyfarmer.