Hundreds of false rumors of alleged attacks by the man-eater were brought to us, entailing endless miles of walking, but this was only to be expected, for in an area in which an established man-eater is operating everyone suspects their own shadows, and every sound heard at night is attributed to the man-eater.

Jim Corbett

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It's ridiculous, isn't it? The rumor is our cost will go up another 30 cents tonight.

— Jim Mitchell

started with a complaint based on nothing but a rumor. The person that made the complaint wasn't in the operating room. It was pretty much third-person hearsay by the time the complaint was made. The picture taken was played up initially to be a naked lady on an operating table. It wasn't that at all.

— Jim McMahon

I think that (the terror alert rumor) was most of this ... it's already rallying back.

— Jim Paulsen

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