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(From Mike Bibby) YouÂ’ve got me thinking about factoids and your definition of them. Perhaps we should have the converse – the “fictoid” – which everyone refuses to believe, yet is actually true (or probably is).
Take the “fict” that Osama Bin Laden used to support Arsenal – a British soccer team. Or that Russia applied to be a founder member of NATO.
In addition, I think you should define “frictoids.” These are “factoids” or “fictoids” that inevitably start heated debate, especially in chat rooms. For example: the US gives 0.1% of its GDP to aid, less than any other developed country. Or that it's been scientifically proven that women canÂ’t park properly. ThereÂ’s also room for “fantoids” – things that arenÂ’t true but that we wish were. I leave the definition of “foktoids” to your own imagination…
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Anonymous
January 30th, 2002
at 5:54pm
Some of the factoids are in fact facts for example “In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.” this is or at least was true, read the book “Imponderables” it will tell you this is to better show the name of the watch manufacturer. I also know that Mr. Rogers is an ordained Presbyterian minister.
Anonymous
January 31st, 2002
at 3:51am
Fictoids…Factoids…We drive on a parkway, and park on a driveway…or is that an oxymoron…clearly ambiguous!