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Sorry, my bad. This is how Internet rumors get started. There was a biography of Florence Harding written a few years ago, and there is a guy who likes to dress up as her, but it's not the biographer. He's a local Ohio guy who may have a book in the works, but not the published author of the Harding biography. The impersonator was on Comedy Central's "Daily Show" about the time the biography came out, so I got the two confused. More fun tomorrow, but I'll try not to get carried away.

[nicollo]

Internet rumors... lol!

Remember how a "The Onion" article was taken seriously in China? Here's another, much smaller, example I ran into while doing some internet searches on Taft. On this GoogleGroups thraad, someone posted a screed about not winning the Bancroft prize for his biography of W.H. Taft. It was obscene, questioning, basically, who he needed to fellate (that a word?) to win the prize. Others on the group took offense at the post. One guy sympathized and said his own book was unnappreciated. Finally someone noted that it was an Onion article ( here)!

It wasn't funny in the GoogleGroups thread when I first read it, but at the original article, it's hilarious!