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Joker's trick: A toast to good health, a health to good hoax, a hoax to good toast.

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Joker's trick

By Adam Cuerden

In the light of long-standing hoaxes being discovered recently – the claim that Alan MacMaster invented the electric toaster, say, or the Chinese woman who created an elaborate fake history of Mediæval Russia, or whatever one we found to report on in this issue by the time this get published (as it happens, the toaster again) – I present to you...

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• This gave me a good chuckle, especially because some hoaxes took many years before they were ever discovered. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 15:46, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
  

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