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Another FUN poll/thread. You know the rest. ;)

I actually heard fact was stranger than fiction.

How in the world do you expect anyone to answer that? It's like asking "what's bigger: this room or that one?"

It does rather depend on the particulars of any given case.

Another FUN poll/thread. You know the rest. ;)
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I vote fiction. Why? Because fiction has:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b242/blackulah/SHONUFF.jpg

Sho Nuff, The Shogun of Harlem.

I defy fact to top that. :)

Fiction, why?

The matrix is fiction.

Or is it?

Head-->boom

I also add to the fiction pile with John Dies At The End (www.johndiesattheend.com). Everything from meat monsters to Shit Narnia.

Almost right down the middle on this one. Went with fiction because there are more fiction DVDs than ones based on fact. It allways comes down to the numbers somehow dosn't it?

EDIT: oops LoL which is "stranger" My bad. (somehow registered as favorite) Still fiction. Nothing is stranger than pokemon.

Fiction. I love making popcorn and watching Fox News.

I think I was the first to make this political. Hah.

Woman Charged For Chopping Late Hubby’s Manhood As Souvenir
» From the Mutilation Department
“A 65-year-old woman is facing charges of mutilation after she was caught mutilating her dead husband’s penis so she could ‘pickle it as a souvenir of their marriage.’ According to a report by The Sun, the woman was identified as Uta Schneider of Stuttgart, Germany, reportedly used a butcher’s knife to sever the member at a local hospital. Schneider then wrapped the penis in a foil and put it inside her lunch box to take home. A nurse saw what she had done and called the guards to arrest her. Uta was married to 68-year-old Heinrich for 35 years and said she wanted to keep her husband’s best asset. She told the police, ‘It was his best asset and gave me so much pleasure. I wanted to pickle it for eternity. He would have wanted it. We called it his joystick. I wanted it to remember him by.’” — All Headline News (US)

(Thanks to Angela St Lawrence for the link.)

Usually stories of mutilation are not funny. If a despairing hubby did this to his wife — cut a block of flesh out of her dead groin so that he could take home her snatch — women would respond indignantly, men would barf, and hopefully children wouldn’t read about it. But when an old lady wants to pickle her husband’s willy? Why, it’s hilarious! Read just a few of the comments (some with pictures of pickles) over at freerepublic.com: “Uta Schneider Bwahahahahahaha! Schneiden is German for ‘to cut.’” “She just wanted to make sure he wasn’t going to have any sex in the afterlife until she got there.” “My wife was considering this after my demise… but she didn’t know where she’d keep the 50-gallon drum.”

It certainly makes you wonder. If it’s no laughing matter to cut out a twat or hack off a tit, why is it funny to cut off a guy’s penis? (Remember all the John and Lorena Bobbit jokes? “What’s the difference between John Bobbit and a hot dog?? About 6 inches… What did Michael Jackson say to John Bobbit?? Silly Bobbit, dicks are for kids.”) It’s hard to imagine the same jokes being made when the gender roles are reversed. For example, serial killer Ed Gein had a “mammary vest,” a waistcoat he’d made by sewing together some breasts and a vagina. That has black humor potential. (”Hey Ed, is that a tampon or bellybutton lint?”) How come nobody jokes about that?

Faction. Not quite fact, not quite fiction.

Faction. Not quite fact, not quite fiction.

i.e. anything with the words 'Based on a true story' anywhere in them. They have just enough fact in them to get that in, after that i's all fiction.

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i.e. anything with the words 'Based on a true story' anywhere in them. They have just enough fact in them to get that in, after that i's all fiction.

*nods* like American films which always completely change plots and characters to make the USA seem more important. That really annoys me. Thats why I found the film Churchill: The Hollywood years so damn funny:D

*nods* like American films which always completely change plots and characters to make the USA seem more important. That really annoys me. Thats why I found the film Churchill: The Hollywood years so damn funny:D

They did that with U571, made all the guys in it American, despite the fact they were all Irish.

I vote fiction. Why? Because fiction has:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b242/blackulah/SHONUFF.jpg

Sho Nuff, The Shogun of Harlem.

I defy fact to top that. :)

George W. Bush was elected twice as President of the most powerful country in the world.

George W. Bush was elected once as President of the most powerful country in the world.

Edited for accuracy :p

*nods* like American films which always completely change plots and characters to make the USA seem more important. That really annoys me. Thats why I found the film Churchill: The Hollywood years so damn funny

Yah, did you know a majority of the tunnelers in the real "Great Escape" where Canadian?

Which reminds me, get to play Canadian forces in Call of Duty 3 w00t!!!

They did that with U571, made all the guys in it American, despite the fact they were all Irish.

I had no idea that Ireland had played such a crucial role in WWII, what with the capture actually the work of the Royal Navy 'n all.

I had no idea that Ireland had played such a crucial role in WWII, what with the capture actually the work of the Royal Navy 'n all.

It was the Royal Navy, but the men were Irish. Ireland as a nation didn't do a whole lot during WW2.

It was the Royal Navy, but the men were Irish. Ireland as a nation didn't do a whole lot during WW2.

I really have no idea where you're getting this information from. It was a British ship, and it happened in no way like the film portrays it.

Incredible stuff from fiction is just that - fiction.
Incredible stuff that is a fact - way stranger! :p

Another FUN poll/thread. You know the rest. ;)

facts, because anything unusual but tested can become fact. Fiction tends to be baised on Fact.

Moon Shot (or what ever that movie was called) it was baised on the fact of how a bullet operated. so the author/screenwriter expanded that to make it a shell to hit the moon. and since Earth has an atmosphere... it was safe to say (back then anyway) that the moon would have an atmosphere...


In fiction, we read about Bionics, Intelligent robots and such to the point where they are normal... but when it actually starts to become fact... we all stop and stare.

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and even that is up for debate. :cool:

and even that is up for debate. :cool:

No, God put him in that office for a reason, and that's one fact that ain't strange, buddy.

Although the more I think about it, the War in Iraq gets stranger all the time. :confused:

I vote fiction. Why? Because fiction has:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b242/blackulah/SHONUFF.jpg

Sho Nuff, The Shogun of Harlem.

I defy fact to top that. :)

Reality has you, me, and that guy over there *points* topped.