Is ____ update?
I actually like the fairly epic "German Fernandez Status" thread:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=4241398&thread=4240266
It started out innocently with some poor slob trying to find out how German was doing this past fall. It quickly turned into a contest to post the most absurd fake story about German, including:
"I talked to Dave Smith, and he said that German shaved his head and moved to Israel."
"Not sure on his fitness level but I saw on an interview with FloTrack that he recently got a new dog with his girlfriend. It is a greyhound/dalmatian mix that he got from a shelter that had a whole bunch of dogs whos owners still haven't claimed them/died from hurricane Katrina. The saddest part of the story is the dog only has three legs. Most dogs can do quite alright with three legs, but the fact that it is also paralyzed from the waist down makes life especially difficult for it. Of course the leg that is missing (amputation from green grange) is a front limb, thus making his non-amputated forelimb the only working limb on the dogs body. They tried hooking up wheels to the back of the dog so it could sort of "hop" around from place to place, but tragically the dog tried to do this down a long set of stairs and broke its only working limb (the wheel contraption also broke apart). So right now the dog is just totally immobile."
"I heard that while vacationing in Kodiak, Alaska he ran down a bear and taught it to play cello in under three hours."
The thread even got a mention in Running Times:
http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=24020&cm_mmc=RT-_-706838-_-10152011-_-GermanFernandez&PageNum=1
This is what letsrun is all about. The futility of the internet.