We don't typically go in for conspiracy theories and that sort of nonesense, but two recent emails have alerted us to the fact that some dark, multinational cabal has set out to besmirch our hard-earned reputation. When we were doing the Lies Issue back in February, we made absolutely sure that none of the info going into the articles was in any way true. But in spite of our steadfast devotion to ethics, all of a sudden our carefully-crafted lies have been turning up real.First, somebody sent us this page from Sportswear International in which they've taken two of the "street trends" we came up with in about five minutes off the top of our heads for the issue and incorporated them into their Spring line. Initially we wrote if off as another case example of fashion people being lazy, uncreative bandwagoneers, and Italians being unable to comprehend "jokes." Actually, it's sort of what we'd hoped the piece would do all along: convince people who base their wardrobes on things "clothing experts" tell them to dress somehow even more stupidly than usual.But then someone else forwarded us this. Pretty much the only difference between Sprint's locator service and the Japanese scientist's we made up here is that it's based on phones instead of loose chips, oh yeah, and that it is completely real.We have no idea what syndicate or secret order is behind this insidious smear campaign, but we're really keeping our fingers crossed that their resources don't extend into the field of bio-engineering.
