Interesting, had not realized. I suppose my thresholds for truth were conditioned through prior observations of the HN comment distribution, and that such observations were incomplete. Given the new information, the story now takes two seconds to parse instead of one, and would be upgraded from "impossible" to "highly unlikely", IF there was a way to know whether your new subcomment is true or false. Maybe you are still messing with me ;-). When you look at it that way, there is no way for a person or machine to discern truth from fiction. And Tarski comes to mind.