no Oreos

add another lie to the list How to maximize the believability of your lies... ? Do it with devout certainty, and make sure to throw in 'I was there!'

"It was raining Oreos," Schurick said. "They were thick in the air like locusts. I was there. It was very real. It wasn't subtle."

Unless you're an idiot, who forgot that there were dozens of people who can contradict you.

"It didn't happen here," said Vander Harris, operations manager of the Murphy Fine Arts Building at Morgan State. "I was in on the cleanup, and we found no cookies or anything else abnormal. There were no Oreo cookies thrown." ~ Clint Coleman, a spokesman for Morgan State who was at the event, said he saw lots of unseemly behavior but no Oreos. ~ As for "raining Oreos," Coleman said, "I can tell you that did not happen."

[update: Atrios gives Ehrlich an award]