Like all good propagandists, the major media mix truth with lies and then make a big show of correcting trivial errors while doggedly refusing to issue corrections for the real whoppers.

But you'd be surprised how often these guys and gals get stuck for a real whopper.

Richard Schickel of Life Magazine wrote that the rewards would be "plentiful" to audiences who get over the "real whopper" of suspended disbelief required.

My mother tells me I came up with some real whoppers.

The second one was a real whopper.

But the real whopper is the amount of carbon dioxide: 16 million tons of it.

He had a story to tell, a real whopper, and he told me almost all of it.

His ears tingled when he told a real whopper.

It did look as if a storm was coming, a real whopper.

And there's another uncertainty, a real whopper: is the dead man, in fact, dead?