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On their first album the Sheffield band had little but scorn for "fake tales of San Francisco".
In any case, it's hard to believe that 'The Age of the Understatement' is the work of the same surly sod responsible for "Fake Tales of San Francisco".
After "Fake Tales of San Francisco" was finished, the crowd kept shouting the words, which take aim at the indie-rock industry.
Other People's Lives isn't that extreme, but nor is it likely to draw in younger listeners who have recently noticed that the distance between Dedicated Follower of Fashion and Fake Tales of San Francisco is really no distance at all.
Another Sheffield lad, who managed to shoehorn into one of his hits a dig at local Yorkshire rivals – "You're not from New York, you're from Rotherham", he told a try-hard hipster in Fake Tales of San Francisco.
In Fake Tales of San Francisco, we identified with the put-down of the poseurs: "You're not from New York City, you're from Rotherham"; in I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, we knew the nightclubs where "there ain't no Montagues or Capulets", just "dreams of naughtiness".
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A cautionary (possibly fake) tale of what happens when you let an inebriated wedding guest gyrate on a tent pole.
Now: No way are we going to propagate a fake fairy tale story that did not happen in order to sugarcoat the facts about how a bunch of bigoted, intolerant religious fanatics came over here from Europe to steal the native tribes' land and kick off a centuries-long, brutal genocide.
The pattern was invented by the English china manufacturer Josiah Spode; as a marketing device, he faked a tale about young Chinese lovers who run away together and turn into doves when cursed by the girl's father.
Mikkelson owns and runs Snopes.com, a hugely popular fact-checking site which debunks urban legends, old wives' tales, fake news, shoddy journalism and political spin.
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