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shellac
on April 14, 2023
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The Case of the Fake Sherlock
I spent 2/3rds of the article assuming 'Nick McGuffin' was a deliberately absurd pseudonym used to protect the real victim of this charlatan.
tunesmith
on April 14, 2023
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It's crazy, isn't it? A McGuffin is the thing that everyone chases that doesn't really have anything to do with the plot, it's just the thing everyone is after.
entropicdrifter
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Dude was on national TV. Kinda feels like the cat's out of the bag for his privacy when you can just Google the murder victim's name.
That said, yeah his name does
sound
incredibly fake
jonnycomputer
on April 14, 2023
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yes, me too
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