@doctorow (Cory Doctorow) posted a new topic, subject "Putin ready to sue: Harry Potter's Dobby looks too much like me". It read:

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@lt_nemo (John Fleming) replied

    It's not April 1st, right? I didn't just blank out for seven months?

After which, @Miramon (Miramon) added

    What? The link is to an unattributed quarter-page article posted in 2003. Slow news day, yes, but this is ridiculous.

To which @lt_nemo (John Fleming) replied

    I just checked the date myself. Maybe it's 10-Year-Old News day or something.

After which, @MisterGarlic (Paul Coleman) added

    This is how rumors get started…Oh, I see what you did. Carry on.

@jandrese (Jason Andresen) replied

    Did someone dig up an old Onion article by accident?

To which @jsroberts (Jonathan Roberts) replied

    > But it's very difficult for courts to rule on them; lots of experts have to be called in.
    
    I'm imagining all the experts huddling around a picture of Dobby, then glancing at Putin and snickering.

Then @rknop (Rob Knop) said

    The last paragraph of the article gets it wrong, though. Gollum doesn't look like George W. Bush; he looks like Dick Cheney. Reference: http://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/archive/index.php?t-7087.html

So @Cowicide replied

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    Have all the world's leaders finally gone completely, batshit insane? I guess it was just a matter of time, but I'd hoped it wouldn't be happening in my lifetime. The only reason these crazies haven't been able to send us all into another world war by now is probably because of the Internet.

After which, @parfae (parfae) added

    “Master has provided Putty with… clothes?”

So @SpunkyTWS replied

    Dobby smiled entirely too much to ever be compared to Putin. Not long after he first became president the library where I worked got a pictorial biography of Putin, and we played “Find the smile”.
    
    He was only smiling in one picture, where he was looking at someone's baby. And even there he was probably thinking, “Mmmm. Veal.”

@IMB (IMB) replied

    Putin is too vain to ever think that he resembles Dobby.

After which, @KutulhuMythos (Kutulhu Mythos) added

    Was it “Take Grandma To Work Day” at the BB office? She's a dear, but she still needs to stop forwarding this kind of rubbish.

To which @sargemisfit (Sarge Misfit) replied

    _falls out of his chair laughing_

After which, @Eark_the_Bunny (Eark the Bunny) added

    Actually Dobby should be the one suing Putin for looking like him. If Dobby wins Putin will have to wear a paper bag over his head at any public appearances.

Then @sargemisfit (Sarge Misfit) said

    No bad, Cory, if it makes people laugh

@Boundegar (Boundegar) replied

    I am beginning to believe Boing Boing is very gullible. But still very entertaining.

To which @IMB (IMB) replied

    I bet he'd still be shirtless.

So @Cowicide replied

    Why would you put it past the nut? We're talking about this same maniac, correct? The guy who got his panties all in a bunch over a painting of him in women's underwear? I mean, what sort of person in his position of power has got time for that kind of crap aside from Kim Jong-un?

@Boundegar (Boundegar) replied

    Just because it's plausible, doesn't mean it's true. A ten-year-old story with only the sketchiest of attributions is suddenly given a new lease on life as blogs around the globe assume, if it's on Boing Boing, it must be a Fact.

So @mododavid (David Wilson) replied

    He looks mostly like an adult version of Augustus Gloop. He should sue Willie Wonka.

To which @doctorow (Cory Doctorow) replied

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