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  • 2005-12-18 (xsd:date)
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  • Mum e-Dearest (pt)
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  • The realms of comedy and folklore have seen many tales that are all variations on the same basic plot: a man is fixed up on a blind date, matched up with a prospective partner via computer dating, romances an unseen love interest via mail or the Internet, or arranges for a visit from a call girl, and when the two finally meet in person the suitor is horrified to discover that the woman he's been fantasizing about is his mother, sister, daughter, ex-wife, or current (and therefore similarly cheating) wife: Example: Hoary as this scenario may be, it still has appeal to modern audiences, as evidenced by the number of people who have forwarded us the putative news story about a skirt-chasing French playboy named Daniel Anceneaux. M. Anceneaux supposedly spent six months talking with a sensual woman on the Internet, sight unseen (despite the ease with which photographs can be exchanged via e-mail), before arranging a romantic rendezvous at a remote beach and discovering that his on-line sweetie was his own mother! All one need know about this article is that it originated with the Weekly World News (WWN), an entertainment tabloid devoted to inventing fantastically fictitious stories while keeping its tongue firmly embedded in its cheek to a depth not measurable by any instrument known to man. Unfortunately, Yahoo! News, a primary news source for many people on the Internet, reprints some WWN articles in their TV News section under a heading of Entertainment News & Gossip, a title that doesn't convey a strong bogus warning to readers who don't notice the original source is the WWN (or don't know what the WWN is). In this case, Yahoo! News ran an article that also appeared in the 9 December 2005 edition of the Weekly World News, and the Yahoo! version was soon circulated via e-mail as a real news story by those unfamiliar with its original source. Sightings: In December 2005 comedian Jay Leno cited this item as a genuine news story during one of his Tonight Show monologues. (en)
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