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🧩 BND Motif Index · M303

Unusual entry

Someone sneaks something unexpected into a contest, and the joke is on the judges.

πŸ“œ Plots

⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.

A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.

πŸͺœ Its family

what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it

πŸͺœ rests on 🧩 News of the weird

πŸ”— goes with: 🧩 Women in traditionally male roles

πŸ—£οΈ In so many words

the words that carry it

πŸ’¬ the tellers' own words: β€œthe panel was so taken by its lush foliage and rich aroma that nobody asked where the tomatoes were”

🧢 Its claims

what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)

Fact-checked 1

claims a fact-checker examined: the verdict is theirs, behind the link

  • 2026-10-01 β€œAn Australian man entered a cannabis plant into a tomato competition.” πŸ”Ž Snopes

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