# Alternate facts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 23, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974 "2017-01-23T21:27:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/1 "2017-01-23T21:27:18Z")

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I have completed a novel that will be hailed as the ultimate example of amazing writing, destined to become a blockbuster film, a TV series, and a Broadway play.

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**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/2 "2017-01-23T21:52:06Z")

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My shit does not stink.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/3 "2017-01-23T22:34:30Z")

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“Nazi” in German means “whale’s vagina.”

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**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/4 "2017-01-23T23:32:02Z")

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Uwe Boll’s newest movie, “To Be Determined”, breaks box office records!

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**Author:** ![Lee\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aeb1de/32.png) [@Lee\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lee_Q)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/5 "2017-01-23T23:41:56Z")

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Kellyanne Conway has the most lustrous, shiny, gorgeous hair I’ve ever seen outside a shampoo commercial.

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**Author:** ![I.Dunno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/6 "2017-01-23T23:42:07Z")

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The college I dropped out of some 40 plus years ago is now a university. Obviously that makes me smarter.

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/7 "2017-01-23T23:49:54Z")

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Chuck Norris is a wuss.

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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/8 "2017-01-23T23:50:31Z")

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> [@Lee\_Q](#):
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> Kellyanne Conway has the most lustrous, shiny, gorgeous hair I’ve ever seen outside a shampoo commercial.

And it only accentuates her angelic, nay cherubic, face, which shines with a purity to which a newborn baby could only aspire.

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**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/9 "2017-01-24T00:02:01Z")

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I’m a responsible adult with a real job and no mental illness or disability.

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/10 "2017-01-24T02:33:10Z")

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Millions of people attended my birthday party. They were all looking at their computer screen the same time I was on, so it only makes sense.

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/11 "2017-01-24T02:40:46Z")

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I can’t wait to see the newest M. Night Shyamalan movie. It looks like a brilliant tour de force, as well as being factually and historically accurate.

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/12 "2017-01-24T03:40:10Z")

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Houston, Texas has the finest weather in the USA and is entirely free of annoying insects.

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/13 "2017-01-24T03:42:23Z")

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Indiana is the cultural capital of the US.

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/14 "2017-01-24T06:05:09Z")

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> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> Houston, Texas has the finest weather in the USA and is entirely free of annoying insects.

You, sir, have gone to far.

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/15 "2017-01-24T08:18:33Z")

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I have a pony.

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**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/16 "2017-01-24T13:02:55Z")

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> [@Princhester](#):
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> I have a pony.

I like this one the most. You win the Internet for the day.

P.s. - I do not mean this as an alternate fact.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/17 "2017-01-24T13:51:37Z")

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The verb in this thread title is in the imperative mood. Non-fact next.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/18 "2017-01-24T14:43:43Z")

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Homosexuality has gone way, way, way, way, way up since abortion was made legal. Ergo, abortion creates homosexuals (I know someone who believes this!)

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/19 "2017-01-24T15:04:20Z")

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We have always been at war with Oceania.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-facts/777974/20 "2017-01-24T15:17:14Z")

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A man and woman were found stabbed to death in Florida recently, just like Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. Ergo, OJ did not kill them.

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