Chaos, thanks for that Snopes link. Fascinating (if depressing) reading. The page includes eye-witness testimony from an Italian journalist in Beirut that day.
And the whole "debunking" thing was from one student in Brazil, going on the verbal word of a teacher from a nearby university, supposedly. The student investigated further, and officially took it back a little bit later, but I guess a lie really can get halfway around the world while the truth is still getting its boots on. Especially when so many people want to believe it.
PJ
"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."
--Stardust, Caroline K
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