Originally posted by creampuff Wow, seems like you're the one who is keen to perpetuate rumours further... or beat the proverbial dead horse even more. Get over it, you're calling it as smoke when it is really hot air...
Nothing of the sort! Without trying to turn this thread into a pedantic exercise, or even a discussion of semantics, I was simply suggesting that rumors do not materialize out of thin air, there is typically some basis on which these stories are predicated.
No doubt they can become distorted and run away with themselves, and likely, we will never know the whole story, but usually there is some basis of observation (smoke) that may, given the right conditions, become reality (fire). And, after all, this forum is called news and RUMORS.