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There is probably no truth to the rumor that the Royal International Air Tattoo was named after a character on this television show. There is probably no truth to the rumor that Microsoft Bob was invented so there would always be something against which everything else could be favorably compared.
There is probably no truth to the rumor that
Gary Smalley
is developing
There is probably no truth to the rumor that at the time of his death, Ernest Hemingway was planning a then-futuristic novel about Atlanta suburbs that he intended to call Islands In The Kudzu. There is probably no truth to the rumor that J.R.R. Tolkien gave the evil, ring-corrupted hobbits the names Smeagol and Deagol (the respective actual names of Gollum and his brother) because their common second syllables rhyme with "Gaul," the ancient Latin name for France. |
There is probably no truth to the rumor that Natalie Portman's lousy British accent at the beginning of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (and her subsequent abandonment of it) were in emulation of Carrie Fisher's accent (and abandonment of it) a generation earlier. There is probably no truth to the rumor that Chrysler named their PT Cruiser model after P.T. Barnum, who proved that you can fool all of the people all of the time. There is probably no truth to the rumor that Microsoft got to be one of the stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average by blackmail. There is probably no truth to the rumor that J.R.R. Tolkien thought the average Ent was less tree-like than Al Gore. There is probably no truth to the rumor Al and Tipper Gore were the inspiration for this movie. |