Malta Today
14 February 2019
Facebook users turn on Edwin
Vassallo’s warning on AIDS-infected bananas
A Nationalist MP posted a
warning about AIDS-infected bananas…
[…] Facebook gave [Malta’s] Nationalist MP Edwin
Vassallo, one of the party’s more conservative MPs, a quick lesson in
fact-checking when he posted the image of alleged AIDS-infected bananas.
Vassallo, a former junior minister, posted the image of a “warning” on banana
injected with “blood containing HIV and AIDS” as a way of killing those who
consume it. “That is Satanism,” the post continued. “Please share” - which
Vassallo inevitably did. […]
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ABC News [Australia]
13 February 2019
Hoax letter claiming
introduction of sharia law by Melbourne council investigated by police
Police are investigating an "inflammatory"
fake letter claiming to come from a Melbourne council falsely stating that new
by-laws based on sharia law will be introduced in the area. The hoax letter,
which appeared with a City of Greater Dandenong logo on it, made a number of
false claims, including that the council would ban the consumption of alcohol
and pork products, and that girls over the age of nine must cover themselves in
public. […]
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East London Times
13 February 2019
Is the Croydon Cat Killer
still at large?
Fears are growing that despite police insistence
no-one is responsible for cat deaths in and around Croydon, there could after
all be human involvement. The claim comes from vets and pet owners, worried
that animal mutilations around the M25 are continuing, even after the police
investigation was shut down. A South London animal rescue says it’s getting up
to five reports a week. […]
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Dame Darcy [Darcy Megan Stanger], “More Happy
Hi-Jinx,” Meat Cake #4 (May 1995). Meat Cake Bible (Seattle: Fantagraphics
Books, 2016), 83. A debate by conjoined twins over whether a pancake looks like
Abraham Lincoln or Jesus ends abruptly when one of them eats the simulacrum.
Excerpt from 2-page story.
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Dame Darcy [Darcy Megan Stanger], “Twist of Fate,” Meat Cake #7 (1996). Meat Cake Bible (Seattle: Fantagraphics
Books, 2016), 158. Luring a parasite (tapeworm?) out of a patient’s mouth by
placing meat on her chest. Excerpt from a 4-page story.
Dan W. Taylor, Unleashed!
#1 (Weird Muse Productions, 2010). Excerpt from an 8-page mini comic reprinted
in Michael Dowers, ed., Treasury of Mini
Comics, Volume Two (Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2015), 170. Tommy
Tapeworm sez: “Do I smell cheese?”
