Tuesday April 05, 2005

UPDATE: The Anatomy of a Hoax

Toothy Toothing co-conspirator Simon Byron dishes even more ridiculous details of the great toothing swindle, which in one case included making it seem to a journalist that toothing was going on all around. He writes:

The media loved to believe there was this hideous underground movement of people having random sex. And to add to the list of press appearances—which I’ll dig out later—we were interviewed on Radio Air America in addition to Radio 5 Live. Plus, The Guardian—which apparently likes to think it was in on the joke now—wrote about us twice in one week, even providing an accompanying cartoon. We toyed with the woman from More, only agreeing to speak to them if they ran Toothing as a position of the fortnight. We hilariously got one idiotic journalist in a pub, by illustrating Toothing going on around him. He didn’t see the two of us changing phone names and beaming disgusting gay messages at each other. Maybe you believe what you want to believe.

Posted by jim at 12:00 PM ||