What's the difference between a hand-washed hangman's tool and the topic of this episode? Well, one is a weakly whirled noose, and the other is the !
In the days before email forwards and widely available tools for disseminating lies in order to enrich criminals defrauding upset people desperate to blame somebody for feeling upset, because it simply seems outside the realm of the imaginable that they might someday feel better without taking something away from someone else, we had to get our misinformation down at the supermarket. And in those strange times, supermarkets supplied those who looked with bizarre tales of aliens, mutants, crooks and crazy people -- and sometimes, they WEREN'T talking about Congress!
Brace yourself for a firehose blast of weird stories and surprising anger, because it's time to drop those trousers, settle down atop the porcelain throne, and flip through an issue of ... the Weekly World News.