I once knew a woman who told me that Alastair Cook had died (he hadn't at the time), and wasn't it terrible? I said that I hadn't heard any mention of this on the news. She insisted that it had to be true because she read it in Bjo Trimble's newsletter, and Bjo was the mother of fandom and source of all that is good and true in the world. Poor dead guy was actually a British DJ with a similar name.

Mr Quatloo is a douche, but I wouldn't consider Harlan Ellison a reliable source, either.