The agency also debunks the widespread tale of the Klingerman Virus, a toxic sponge supposedly mailed in blue envelopes to people at random.
A widespread tale is that one of the perpetrators of this fraud was a man named Josh Tatum, who would go into a store, select an item costing five cents or less, and offer the gold-plated piece in payment and many clerks gave him $4.95 in change.
Explaining these away, Mr. Morgan said that he was merely repeating widespread tales from the "Fleet Street rumor mill" that hacking "went a lot further" than Mr. Goodman's case.
As last year, the majority of advance sales was made outside the city, but a reluctance to travel - tales are widespread of fewer than 20 passengers on internal flights - may affect the usual rowdy ambience thanks to readily noticeable gaps in the towering grandstands lining the one of the longest main straights in F1.
Another widespread set of tall tales is embellishment of experience and accomplishments, says Jenny Sullivan, a spokeswoman for Chicago-based CareerBuilder.com, a joint venture between The Tribune Co., Gannett and Knight Ridder.
Opponents of the bill would later call this omission the "Crime of '73," and would mean it quite literally, circulating tales of widespread bribery of Congressmen by foreign agents.
And such is the frenzy of the current chase that parts of the press want to transform an already shocking tale of "ordinary", widespread, often systematic abuse by teachers, social workers and relatives, given spurious authority by the appalling Paedophile Information Exchange, into a celebrity trophy hunt.
The Courier Mail says no other tragic incident in Australian sports has caused "more widespread grief than this heartbreaking tale of a strong-willed young cricketer".
The impression that the reader gets is both excitingly diverse and depressingly familiar: tales of human ingenuity in the face of extreme climatic shift, but also tales of a widespread tendency to screw up the immediate environment (as with the Mesolithic visitors to Colonsay, who processed hazelnuts in such industrial quantities that the crop never recovered).
Keats transformed the tale to express the widespread Romantic theme of the attempt to find in actuality an ideal love that has been glimpsed heretofore only in imaginative longings.
A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that the former president should ask Mr. Turley for a recount, but in any event the widespread effort to tie this story to Bill Clinton fails to do either tale justice.
