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I, Libertine - Creation of a Hoax
hitchhiker08
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6-26-2008 12:29 PM
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bestsellers
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jean shepherd
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Bestsellers can be created?!
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6-26-2008
4:47 PM
righthand
Good lesson. What have we learnt since?
6-27-2008
2:29 AM
hitchhiker08
Agree righthand. We never seem to learn from our mistakes...
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Shepherd was highly annoyed at the way that the <A title="Bestseller" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestseller">bestseller</A> lists were being compiled in the mid-1950s. 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Overnight WOR-AM radio show host <A href="http://www.flicklives.com/">Jean Shepherd</A> asked his listeners ("the Night People") to go into bookstores and ask for a book that didn't exist. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/06/the-i-libertine.html"><IMG width="12" height="12" src="http://images.del.icio.us/static/img/mp3/play.gif" title="listen" /><A href="http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/MS/shep_nebel_0168.mp3">Jean Shepherd on Long John Nebel's radio show</A> (MP3)</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B2B3C1D9-CE7E-4C83-9950-7DA5777EAEC9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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