What specifically connects a certain German politician whose main function is to avoid paying the account at restaurants, a photographer who is infatuated with mailboxes who seemed to blow herself up whilst at work on a magazine story, and what does it all have to do with the importance of facial hair when composing music?

lanfranco

Fake entries in encyclopedias. Jacob Maria Mierscheid is the politician, Lillian Virginia Mountweazel was the poor, self-exploded photographer (from Bangs, Ohio) who supposedly was into rural mailboxes, and Metaf Usic (I'm missing an umlaut there) was a Turkish music scholar who supposedly studied the beards of composers. Mountweazel was the subject of a "New Yorker" piece that can be found online. This site on "Nihilartikels," the German word for such entries, is quite interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilartikel Apr 07 06, 10:18 AM

peasypod

Nice One Frankie, and my personal favourite is the one about the lice that ate the Berlin Wall... Apr 07 06, 5:46 PM