2024-12-17 18:00:00
His favorite specimen, which dates back to 1884, was written by a famous and controversial Canadian doctor, William Osler, in the form of a letter in which he described the delicate case of a man and a woman who could not separate after coitus. His joke was taken seriously for several years.
For his analysis, Zen Faulkes considered only 27 hoaxes, imagined between 2009 and 2020. The most emblematic is so banal that its success is still surprising. In 2014, two authors managed to obtain the fileInternational Journal of Advanced Information Technology a text that repeats only the phrase on ten pagestranslated here, “Take me off your fucking list”. The authors wanted to express their disappointment at the spam received from this publisher, who insistently invited them to publish with him.
Doubtful and profitable
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