The iPhone caper is not one of those inside jobs in which the mob diverts Pentium chips for its own nefarious ends; it was a bizarre, one-off tale with a happy ending: Apple not only got its phone back, but got more publicity than even it could imagine.
Because college sports chaos is rarely a one-off story, we also had the tale on Monday of Virginia Tech's firing of the basketball coach Seth Greenberg.
As described on the one-sheet, the seventh character was named Charlie; he was going to be a one-off story that occurred through one of Woody's fanciful tales.
I also remember going to VICE's one-off festival, Tales of the Jackalope, and stealing loads of booze from the artist liaison by going "Mark E Smith says he needs a bottle of vodka right now and he's not going on stage without it".
Boyzone's Ronan Keating is rattling off tales about their lives and times as one of Europe's biggest-selling boybands, back in their 1990s heyday.
With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the spin-off tale of the mission to steal the plans for the Death Star, taking almost $300m£323m3m) globally on its opening weekend, Disney has easily shot past the previous $6.9bn annual ticket sales record set by rival Universal last year with hits including Jurassic World and Furious 7.
So it is with the BMW Zagato Coupe, a stagey, one-off pageant composed on the tale of the Z4, under the supervision of Norihiko Harada, the company's chief designer, and Andrea Zagato, his boss.
Since the late seventies, Burden has specialized in one-off wonders like "A Tale of Two Cities" (whose details yield a wealth of technological and social history) and insouciant engineering feats like "Hell Gate," as well as technological stunts involving self-designed cars, boats, and laboratory equipment.
In what may serve as a cautionary tale to one-off marathoners, the training schedule that got me to the finish on the Champs-Élysées also got me used to consuming about 4,000 calories a day.
Hot on the heels of Darron Aronofksy's recent film, Noah, the BBC has confirmed a dramatic retelling of the biblical tale in one-off film, The Ark.
Stalwart performances and handsome visuals were at the heart of The Thirteenth Tale, a one-off drama with Vanessa Redgrave and Olivia Colman – the former a crotchety best-selling author with death creeping up on her and a childhood secret to tell, the latter (arriving with a rucksack and troubles of her own) the woman's biographer and confessor.
