Searching my site for something totally different and it found 🖇️ this joke post - one of those things that used to circulate the wires. It is seventeen years old. It’s funny - though the names are definitely from a moment in history. The fourth one down caught my eye …

MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF (COMICAL ALI):
The chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We do not even have a chicken.

Comical Ali (Ali G) is of course the Sacha Baron Cohen creation from before Borat …

Fake News in a comedian’s kitbag 17 years ago.

This shit has been going on for too long.