lying for a living

A former Lonely Planet writer has claimed he made up sections in its guides. Thomas Kohnstamm says he sold drugs, had casual sex on tables in the restaurants he reviewed, and never bothered to visit Colombia. Instead, he got information on the country from “a chick” he was dating.

Let’s just hope he didn’t write any books based on The Onion’s atlas, Our Dumb World:

EGYPT: Free Admission on Sundays. “Located in the Smithsonian, the Louvre, the National Gallery in London, and countless other museums throughout the western world, Egypt lies behind thick glass displays in climate-controlled rooms.”

UKRAINE: The bridebasket of Europe. “Ukraine leads the world in the harvesting, processing, and exporting of wivestock, boasting mail-order shipments of over half a million tons of fresh brides annually.”

Doublecheck your sources before booking that Ukrainian vacation, folks. And yes, Kohnstamm’s admission to being a big fat liar comes in his new tell-all memoir. Which I’m sure — oh, so completely sure — is one-hundred percent truthful itself.