Truthiness

Wednesday, 2nd July 2008

This wonderful story reminds me of one about Kelvin MacKenzie.

A reader called in to complain about something in the Sun. MacKenzie asked her for the name of her newsagent. 'Why do you want to know?' she asked. 'Because from now on you're barred from buying it.' A few minutes later she rang back. 'Does that apply to my husband, too?'.

I've no idea if it actually happened, but it has definite truthiness:

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