Nobody follows through on their hoaxes anymore.

November 11, 2002 1:42 PM

Nobody follows through on their hoaxes anymore. I'm kind of disappointed. I didn't think that this would turn out to be anything big, but I was really hoping that it would be something ridiculous. Sigh.
posted by LittleMissCranky (19 comments total)

Google Cache

Snopes Page

posted by perplexed at 1:47 PM on November 11, 2002

fixed link
posted by machaus at 1:50 PM on November 11, 2002

i didn't know anything about this, so this letter thing just confused the hell out of me. sigh.
posted by prescribed life at 1:53 PM on November 11, 2002

Amateurs
posted by perplexed at 1:54 PM on November 11, 2002

perplexed, that proves nothing. Based on the information in that post, the sites DON'T have the same host.
posted by punishinglemur at 2:07 PM on November 11, 2002

And why hasn't anyone come up with the theory that the GOVERNMENT finally caught up with the guy and the current "Ok, I was just kidding" message isn't a coverup?

Hmm?

HMM?
posted by fnirt at 2:10 PM on November 11, 2002

Amateurs.

Whatever.
posted by mediareport at 2:11 PM on November 11, 2002

Whoops -- thanks, machaus.
posted by LittleMissCranky at 2:15 PM on November 11, 2002

My mouse started moving on its own while reading the letter, its got to be a cover up!...End Transmission...
posted by Pollomacho at 2:16 PM on November 11, 2002

I am the amateur. Bad Google cache link too.
posted by perplexed at 2:21 PM on November 11, 2002

Well, I think that the ghost of Andy Warhol finally worked through his backlog and caught up with the guy to tell him his 15 minutes were up...
posted by squidman at 2:24 PM on November 11, 2002

Who thinks the 8th march 2003 guy and the http://www.cutoffmyfeet.com guy are the same person? Me neither, but it's a good theory. squidman is correct, you only get 15 minutes, but it might take a while for the ghost of Andy Warhol to catch up...
posted by chrid at 2:48 PM on November 11, 2002

Every time you tell a lie, guess what happens to this?
posted by hama7 at 3:05 PM on November 11, 2002

Probably the best remains of the site I can find are at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/784949/posts.
The "earthshattering" pictures are missing though.
posted by abez at 3:54 PM on November 11, 2002

damn. i had it all BOOKmarked and everything.
*sniff*
posted by deborah at 7:57 PM on November 11, 2002

It's all Nader's fault.
posted by busbyism at 5:01 AM on November 12, 2002

So, in summary, that letter seems to be saying:

"We started this page as a ficticious hoax to generate publicity for a future project. It started to work, so we took it down. Please be excited about the future project anyway."

I think we can rule out any professional movie studios or publishers at this point. Anyone who truly wanted publicity would be loving all of the attention...
posted by mmoncur at 6:50 AM on November 12, 2002

why didn't they try to sell the site to someone who did want the publicity? surely there must be some film or book coming out round then that would have been able to use it?

heh. have i just thought of a new business plan? can i copyright it?
posted by andrew cooke at 7:31 AM on November 12, 2002

The definition of "wussy" needs to be rewritten, IMHO...
posted by zekinskia at 10:12 AM on November 12, 2002