[Leftovers] Actual Headline: ‘Cello scrotum’ exposed as a hoax
January 28th, 2009 by Matt DuncanThanks to the hard-hitting reporting at CNN, the string section of your local orchestra is now a little less worried about their.. um.. instrument.
From the article:
Elaine Murphy, who is a member of The House of Lords and a trained doctor, came clean about the prank she devised with husband John in a letter to the BMJ published on Wednesday.
She said: “Perhaps after 34 years it’s time for us to confess that we invented cello scrotum.
“Reading (Dr) Curtis’s 1974 letter to the BMJ on guitar nipple, we thought it highly likely to be a spoof and decided to go one further by submitting a letter pretending to have noted a similar phenomenon in cellists, signed by the non-doctor one of us.
Shamelessly pulled from Mike Decker’s Google Reader share.
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