The Trouble with Lying

No one has a good enough memory to lie.

Making a Basket from Out of Bounds

At a girls' basketball game recently, in the last seconds of the game, a girl threw a basketball the entire length of a basketball court and she made ...

Saying What Sells

In the classroom setting of one Peanuts comic strip, on the first day of the new school year, the students were told to write an essay about returning ...

The New Doublespeak

In The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore, author William Lutz defines a few of the more creative doublespeak terms currently ...

Celebrated Frauds

So, your mom's got a Betty Crocker cookbook. So do 55 million others. But did you know Betty never existed? The people at Gold Medal flour invented ...

An April Fools Day Gag

So, where's spaghetti come from, anyway? Would you believe a spaghetti farm?!

Maybe you wouldn't believe it, but many did. Just ask the thousands of Englishmen ...

Success Can Be Deceptive

The comedy film Cool Runnings is about the first Jamaican bobsled team to go to the Olympics. John Candy plays a former American gold medalist who becomes ...

Top 10 Lies

Leonard Sweet, in his Soul Cafe newsletter, included this list of "Top 10 Liars' Lies": 10. We'll stay only five minutes. 9. This will be a short meeting. ...

The Prevalence of Resume Falsification

In the July 15, 1993 Boardroom Reports, Peter LeVine writes: "When the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ran a help-wanted ad for electricians ...

Honesty Is the Best Policy

Coming home from work, a woman stopped at the corner deli to buy a chicken for supper. The butcher reached into a barrel, grabbed the last chicken he ...