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MisterP

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4. tell a lie long enough and it becomes common knowledge

Reply to dipsydoodle (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 04:16 PM

Mar 2014

it'll be in every AP story, every other online post, unless an expert's involved

it's like "flat-earth" or "Neanderthal"--in those cases the cliché's been making the rounds since the 1830s and 1900s (respectively)

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