Crikey .... fake news /disinformation/misinformation has been all over the news this morning .... and "they" want "something" "done" about "it." Or do they ? Is this all just getting "us" to "think" that "they" can/will "do" "something" about "it ? ... ooooh .... creepy or what ? And just where is the line drawn ? _______________________________________________ Sherlock Holmes .. those stories, I suspect, are made up .... they are, at least, misinformation. They are misleading, in the sense that none of it ever happened. So that's TS Eliot, Shakespeare, Margaret Drabble, Hercule Poirot, Blandings Castle, Just William, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Uncle The Elephant, Animal Farm, Three Men in a Boat, Swallows and Amazons, Coot Club .. all chucked on the Orwellian bonfire. In the Bird-o-Sphere, there's those made-up stories in " Evenings at the Coot and Corncrake" ...... well, I think they were made up. But even worse ... there's ME. Eek !! Some of the stuff on here is, er, made up !! Yes .... ! All those poems about Capercaillies ... ... and that one about the Skua being the opposite of Auks etc ! .. and those birds with birds inside them ....they're not "really" inside them. All that stuff about Wavely Newt !! Wavely Bloody Newt !!!!! He "wrote" the one where a Nuthatch evolves into a Woodpecker in ½ a swoop ! Or is it the other way round ? That story where I got someone we didn't like to go up a magic tree and vanish for ever. How we laughed. Hang on ...Skua IS the opposite of Auks, come to think of it. Phew ! And all those things I "pretended" I "did" in unoccupied hides .... oo-er. ... and all those hides with fake, silly names and odd innards I wrote about . And entire reserves that don't exist in the "real" "world" !! Maybe I never went to Lithuania. After all, it's not very likely is it. And what about Bruce's faked-up New Year's Day Lists ? Eh ? What about them ? And that daft old biddy and her imaginary Black-throated Diver. And her "proper birdwatcher" with "proper binoculars " unlike "me and mine" ? That " Flintshire Bird Club"maybe doesn't exist either ... nor its "opposite" faction. Hey ... what about all those "palindromic medicines" I, er, made up .... PuffinsniffuP, Leg-gel, Gnatang, Lionoil, Ratstar ..... all total figments of my imagination. And that's only a tiny fraction of all that slightly fictional stuff wot I've rote. I'm bang to rights, me. BUT .... If anybody says owt, I'll simply tell them that all this was fake news as well. Aha !! After all, everyone knows that the Flintshire Bird Club has been going for 60 years at least. And Wavely Newt...if he isn't actually true, be really should be. And some of those other things are true too. And Grumbling Stumps isn't far from its true self. So... I should be OK ... I'm a terrific liar for a start. ... or .... am I ? Er ......... maybe ....
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