Josephus is known to have told
whoppers on a regular basis, and frequently passed along local rumor as though it were solid fact.
News spilled out today that a marketing rep for the fast food chain edited an entry for
the Whopper on Wikipedia so it reads more like an ad.
Not exact matches
All of the so - called expert claims he made were predicated
on a
whopper of a lie.
Burger King customers in Russia can earn one WhopperCoin for every rouble (0.01 p) they spend
on the
Whopper sandwich, according to a press release issued last Friday by partner organisation Waves.
On the upside, 3G owns Burger King, and
Whoppers need ketchup.
«It seems clear that Ross lied to us, the latest in an apparent sequence of fibs, exaggerations, omissions, fabrications and
whoppers that have been going
on with Forbes since 2004,» Forbes» report said.
In a press release, Burger King President Alex Macedo said the tots are «the perfect addition to any meal, whether that be the
Whopper sandwich, new Crispy Chicken Sandwich, Croissan «wich meal or to just snack
on its own.»
BREAKING: Trump Does Damage Control
on Twitter After Rudy Giuliani Exposes a
Whopper of a Lie About Stormy Daniels
On the other hand, if you are going 150 in a school zone, you're ocmmitting a
whopper.
I won't hold my breath waiting for a citation
on that
whopper.
In the US we have
Whoppers and I'm addicted to them - they come in a milk carton type box and me and my friends always finish one
on movie nights Delicious!
I've gotten sick
on those strawberry
whoppers.
I'm not usually a
whopper girl but I have a hard time saying no to new twists
on Reese's.
They can vary in size of course - from small - sized edible pumpkins to massive
whoppers like this 25 lb fairytale pumpkin (for more information
on identifying different types of pumpkins & what do with them - check out my post here).
Jeff Passan has a
whopper of a feature here, and our own Marc Normandin explored what's going
on here.
On tap for this week's Buffet: an interesting coda to our discussion of vegetarianism; parents tell their children some
whoppers about food; celeb chef recipes for the picky; beefing up safety standards for chicken; and a processed school lunch item... [Continue reading]
Trump Does Damage Control
on Twitter After Rudy Giuliani Exposes a
Whopper of a Lie About Stormy Daniels
As a replacement «myth», how about the
whopper «three million jobs depend
on EU membership».
It is a
whopper of a catch, in more ways than one: China is under - reporting its overseas fishing catch by more than an order of magnitude, according to a study published
on 23 March.
The Phoenix Lander may have dominated Mars news in recent weeks, but a new study performed here
on Earth has turned up a
whopper of a finding: The Red Planet seems to have been the victim of a massive hit and run more than four billion years ago.
Showing some southpaw love, Burger King announced it was introducing a «left - handed
Whopper» to its menu
on April 1, 1998.
No one can say for sure if Williams deliberately mislead people
on this and other possible
whoppers, but experts say memories can be notoriously unreliable, even for major events like a crashed helicopter.
Myths, Half - Truths, and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health (St. Martins Griffin, 2009; $ 14), takes
on a ton of
whoppers, including these biggies:
Over 40 Rainy Day Styling Tips It's been a strange and scary month in the United States with two
whopper storms ravaging our former Home state of Texas and now Hurricane Irma reeking havoc
on Florida, Georgia and the coast of South Carolina.
This
whopper of a lie also keeps us from seeing our work for its own merit because we've cast a shadow
on it in the shape of what other people are doing.
Kim, I'm with you
on the big ole tub of Buttery Popcorn,
Whoppers, and an Ice Cold Pepsi!!
Frosting
on brownies is so decadent and adding some
whoppers to the mix is sheer genius.
While the Showtime series never has and never will be LOL funny — especially with the
whopper coming in the first episode — its quirkiness seemed to have been lost as of late, particularly in Season 4, which teetered
on the depressing.
As time goes
on, family secrets and stories unfold culminating in a
whopper near the end.
John Michael McDonagh delivered a hell of a
whopper with Calvary, proving that he was every bit as talented as older brother Martin McDonagh (In Bruges), and his latest, War
on Everyone, looks to dial things back into police corruption (The Guard) and high brow, low kick laughs.
But once the film does settle
on a trajectory, it loses its way, paying off its investment in its characters with a
whopper of a contrivance, a montage sequence long enough to train Rocky twice, and a conclusion that tidies up all that carefully cultivated chaos much too neatly.
After bailing
on a lot of pre-production work in The Wolfman (which eventually flopped under jobber Joe Johnston) Romanek picked a
whopper of a challenge for a follow up; a difficult to adapt Kazuo Ishiguro novel, Never Let Me Go.
In contrast, if a student's performance
on a reading test were reported as a single, overall «reading comprehension» score, this would be a large,
whopper - level grain size.
What this means for long - winded authors is hard to judge — will they benefit (and perhaps write even fatter
whoppers) because the disincentive of having to lug heavy novels around and rest them
on your tummy disappears?
Today's stories include news about Google speech recognition software for developers, Victorian attitudes
on reading and a Google maps mistakes that is a real
whopper!
After reading
Whopper Investments» take
on Gramercy Capital, then Plan Maestro's in - depth analysis I just couldn't help but buy a few shares.
Wow, we've got a
whopper of a Nintendo NX news story for you today: A new rumor
on Dual Pixels purports to reveal some major, critical details about Nintendo's upcoming console, widely believed to be coming out later this year.
Where the first
whopper evokes the sensation of having heavy containers swinging above your head, the later ones approximate to the state of a collapsing wall, or a discarded heap of materials
on a quayside.
No, back in the 1980s an associate of mine did not buy «His and Her» Rolls Royces, take a
whopper tax credit
on both, and depreciate the balances in three years.
You follow up with another declarative
whopper:... and so will have limited impact
on the 50 year Paris goals.
So the correct analogy would have A&W issue a statement acknowledging the impact
on the big
whopper as soon as the little whoper was rejected; and also amending the big
whopper to remove any reliance
on the little
whopper prior to its publication.
On the blog Hot Whopper (and on ThinkProgress) it's shown that a lot of January's anomaly is due to the Artic heating up far, far more than usual, as it has been doing for some tim
On the blog Hot
Whopper (and
on ThinkProgress) it's shown that a lot of January's anomaly is due to the Artic heating up far, far more than usual, as it has been doing for some tim
on ThinkProgress) it's shown that a lot of January's anomaly is due to the Artic heating up far, far more than usual, as it has been doing for some time.
Trump campaigned
on alternative facts with a high percentage of
whoppers identified by fact - checkers, and continues this way with alternative facts about the election, unemployment, the crime rate, terrorism, immigration rates, etc..
Another post appeared around this time
on a blog called Hot
Whopper: 21 This is a brief cut - and - past account of the scientific evidence followed by a lengthier polemic against «deniers».
Cousteau received a hearty round of applause for this
whopper: «We spend 1,000 times more money every year in our federal budget for space exploration than we do to understand our oceans,» «Knowing whether there was ever water
on Mars - not critical to surviving
on this planet.
Eavesdropping
on the deniosphere, its weird pseudo-science and crazy conspiracy
whoppers.
After reading 15 or so of Pat Michael's articles I think the quality of the science he presents is similarish to real climate, the only major issue I have is that he seems to unduely emphasise low end climate sensitivities (of course I may have overlooked some
whoppers there or indeed over
on real climate - in both cases I have to base my opinion
on less than 10 % of what's
on their sites).
2012 was a
whopper summer for melting
on Greenland; by 12 July of that year, fully 98 % of the ice sheet was covered in liquid water, according to satellite data.
And speaking of turning
on the device: Burger King got into some controversy, not accidentally, by running a TV ad that called out the «code» to activate Google Home — at which point the device would read out the Wikipedia article
on the
Whopper.