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    Thorne behind McDonald's hoax
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    Of creating the hoax, Mr Thorne said: "Paper background and logo courtesy of Google Images. Signature courtesy of the Robert Mugabe page on Wikipedia. Address courtesy of Google Maps. Content courtesy of being ripped off by McDonald's several times." The memo had appeared on Mr Thorne's website earlier in the year as part of a prank email exchange about test-riding a motorcycle. Full Article at PerthNow
    Paper background and logo courtesy of Google Images. Signature courtesy of the Robert Mugabe page on Wikipedia. Address courtesy of Google Maps. Content courtesy of being ripped off by McDonald's several times.
    SOURCE: PerthNow 1 month ago
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Thorne behind McDonald's hoax
  1. We need to work out if there is a way of making this a procedure without making it documented.
    SOURCE: PerthNow 1 month ago
  2. People who have seen the original on my website knew and emailed me that it had been posted on several websites as evidence that McDonald's commits fraud
    SOURCE: PerthNow 1 month ago
  3. It took me five minutes in Photoshop
    SOURCE: PerthNow 1 month ago
  4. If the girls leave one item out of every second or third order, this adds up to several thousand dollars per week revenue
    SOURCE: PerthNow 1 month ago
  5. McDonald's practices the highest standards of consumer ethics and would never encourage employees to act in a way that undermines our core customer values.
    SOURCE: PerthNow 1 month ago
  6. I would have thought that the thinly disguised signature and name gave away the fact that it was a joke, but I guess it was a vague context.
    SOURCE: PerthNow 1 month ago
  7. I posted it on there under a constructed name and within the day it went viral.
    SOURCE: PerthNow 1 month ago
  8. Robert Trugabe is not, and has never been, a McDonald's Australia employee. The contents of the letter are also completely fabricated
    SOURCE: PerthNow 1 month ago
  9. The fastest and easiest way to feed anything, true or stupid, to the internet machine is through Reddit
    SOURCE: PerthNow 1 month ago

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