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First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 06:25 PM Sep 2019

Post an untrue fact about somebody famous, living or dead...

...Bobby Darin and Lee Harvey Oswald were the same person...

...Stan Laurel was Clint Eastwood's father...

...Frances Farmer was Sharon Stone's mother...

...John Randolph of Roanoke was actually a woman disguised as a man...

...Henry Clay was Abraham Lincoln's father...

...Adolf Hitler survived the bunker, and lived until the 1970s disguised as a doctor in Indonesia...


...all of these are real rumors. But don't feel constrained by "reality"; use your imagination...

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Post an untrue fact about somebody famous, living or dead... (Original Post) First Speaker Sep 2019 OP
Anything flattering or positive about Donald J. Trump... hlthe2b Sep 2019 #1
LOL! First Speaker Sep 2019 #2
Michael and Latoya Jackson are the same person Runningdawg Sep 2019 #3
That one's true shenmue Sep 2019 #4
John Dillinger was not the person the FBI killed in Chicago. Captain Zero Sep 2019 #5
Ted Cruz is not the Zodiac Killer Blue Owl Sep 2019 #6
Benjamin Franklin earned his wings during the Battle of Concord in 1775. LonePirate Sep 2019 #7
An impossible task as Disaffected Sep 2019 #8
That's not true. Ptah Sep 2019 #10
Nicely done. EarnestPutz Sep 2019 #27
Touche Disaffected Sep 2019 #34
Also nicely done. My compliments. EarnestPutz Sep 2019 #37
A fact is a provable truth. Period. ariadne0614 Sep 2019 #32
Donald J Trump CDerekGo Sep 2019 #9
Francisco Franco is still alive jpak Sep 2019 #11
Tom Cotton is set to star in a remake of Psycho. Sneederbunk Sep 2019 #12
Contract negotiations are being held up by the studio's concerns.... EarnestPutz Sep 2019 #28
Elvis is sacking groceries at a Piggly Wiglly down in Memphis. Hotler Sep 2019 #13
Actually he's an air traffic controller at the Paducah, KY airport. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #18
Was he singing... Harker Sep 2019 #22
Nope, he said The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #23
... Harker Sep 2019 #24
Donald Trump does not want to have sex with Ivanka. Marie Marie Sep 2019 #14
Elvis is at the Burger King in Kalamazoo, Michigan. muntrv Sep 2019 #15
Amelia Earhart Dagstead Bumwood Sep 2019 #16
Mike Pence's father was named Spencer Pence Wolf Frankula Sep 2019 #17
Hence... Harker Sep 2019 #21
I saw Tupac the other day LeftInTX Sep 2019 #19
Doris Day sold her soul to the devil NoPasaran Sep 2019 #20
Barry and Ella Fitzgerald were married for 57 years. trof Sep 2019 #25
If it's untrue, it can't be a fact. The Wielding Truth Sep 2019 #26
See #10 above, EarnestPutz Sep 2019 #31
Laurence O'Donnell mainstreetonce Sep 2019 #29
Donald Trump is human. CatMor Sep 2019 #30
Elvis Presley... Docreed2003 Sep 2019 #33
Cecil B. DeMille, much against his will... Glorfindel Sep 2019 #35
LOL...! Moses and Margaret of Anjou would have made a terrific couple... First Speaker Sep 2019 #36

Captain Zero

(6,785 posts)
5. John Dillinger was not the person the FBI killed in Chicago.
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 06:42 PM
Sep 2019

Another body is in his Indianapolis grave. He went straight as a grocery store manager in Danville Illinois, where he died a natural death in 1959.

EarnestPutz

(2,117 posts)
28. Contract negotiations are being held up by the studio's concerns....
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 07:04 PM
Sep 2019

....about his mental stability and drug use.

Dagstead Bumwood

(3,595 posts)
16. Amelia Earhart
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 09:30 PM
Sep 2019

Actually lived into her 80s but was tragically lost somewhere during a 6-hour layover at O'Hare.

Wolf Frankula

(3,598 posts)
17. Mike Pence's father was named Spencer Pence
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 11:00 PM
Sep 2019

Spence Pence was a fymp farmer, and was the last fymp farmer in Ynjanny to use a squishlsquumpulator. All of the other fymp farmers used ralfrs to break up the staincque on their fields, but he kept to the squishlsquumpulator, despite the fact it broke more fymps than a ralfr would.

Wolf

NoPasaran

(17,291 posts)
20. Doris Day sold her soul to the devil
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 01:11 PM
Sep 2019

In return, she was always able to find a parking space right in front of wherever she was going.

Docreed2003

(16,850 posts)
33. Elvis Presley...
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 07:35 PM
Sep 2019

Ate meatloaf for dinner for six months straight!

That urban legend was started by Graceland tour guides!

Glorfindel

(9,719 posts)
35. Cecil B. DeMille, much against his will...
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 11:11 PM
Sep 2019

was persuaded to keep Moses out of the Wars of the Roses. He would have fought for the Lancastrian side, naturally.

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