Just found out about this new tidbit: BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing's most popular newspaper has unwittingly republished a bogus story about U.S. Congress threats to skip town for Memphis or Charlotte unless Washington builds them a new Capitol building with a retractable dome. The source? America's celebrated spoof tabloid, the Onion. The Beijing Evening News, which claims a circulation of 1.25 million, translated portions of the Onion's tall tale word-for-word in the international news page of its June 3 edition. The full story at: http://makeashorterlink.com/?B4C421401 The original Onion article: http://www.theonion.com/onion3820/congress_threatens.html -- Matt
