Anyhoo... if you want some True Facts, you'll find dozens of pages of them in the August 1988 ish of National Lampoon, on sale in our dear sponsor's little store.
National Lampoon, once billed as "The humor magazine for adults", jumped the shark four or five years before this issue was published, when the Simmons gang took over publishing and editing, and funny people like Doug Kenney, P.J. O'Rourke, Tony Hendra et al. stopped writing for them.
OK, Kenney died but my point is the writing got pretty lame and repetitive in the mid-80s. By the time they went bimonthly -- a sure sign of trouble -- in 1987, things had got to the point that the True Section (true stories, true signs, true headlines and true truth) was the most-read part of the mag. The August 1988 issue proves that truth is, indeed, funnier than fiction.
Note from Ed., added at 1930. I asked Walt how he could just leave it there, without giving a couple of examples of the funny facts. He contacted our sponsor who sent these....
Jordache, the designer-jeans manufacturers, lost its laawsuit against an Albuquerque NM company which sells designer jeans for hefty women under the name Lardashe. According to Insight magazine, "The Denver-based Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Jorache's argument that the Larashe name was an attempt to confuse the public.
Lardashe jeans are made by Oink Inc., which considered a number of names before deciding on Lardashe in 1984. Among the other names considered were Vidal Sowsoon, Calvin Swine, and Seambusters.
A north Philadelphia man, Harold Askin, was accussed of first-degree murder after stabbing his robbery victim, Eli Reeves, to death. Despite the fifty-eight stab wounds on Reeves' body, Askin claimed that he had acted in self-defense and that Reeves "fell on the knife."
Like those? True Facts `88 has hundreds of `em, so our sponsor sez.
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