This is one I helped coin with the help of WoZ at WW:

FACTOID (proposed definition)– 1) unverified, untrue, or invented fact. "Spurious report or supposition" - Norman Mailer; "...Bush has 'lost' more than a million jobs....This is a factoid of questionable validity" – Colorado Springs Gazette. 2) Brief or trivial fact or news item See POLYFACTOID below.

POLYFACTOID – (thanks to Wizard of Oz) Compound FACTOID; entire phrase, sentence, or definition simultaneoulsy contradictory, redundant, and simply false

The entire statement, “...Bush has ‘lost’ more than a million jobs....This is a factoid of questionable validity” (Colorado Springs Gazette) is itself a polyfactoid. It is contradictory because if the factoid is questionable the statement becomes redundant; but if the factoid is true, the statement is false See FACTOID

Polyfactoid sounds like a useful addition to the arsenal. There was quite a lengthy thread here on whether the key element in a statemenmt's qualkifying to be a factoid was lack of veracity, or brevity.
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=words&Number=147068

yeah, I remember that - it's a long thread full of lies!

This is the second post I've seen that refers to WW; what is that, please?

WW is an abbreviation for:

Warrior Within
Waterworks
Weather warning
Weight Watchers
Werewolf
Winchester and Western Railroad
The Wind Waker (in "The Legend of Zelda")
Wonder Woman
World War

~according to the Wikipedia.

Wordwind

Max thank you, its rare that I get much support

Jackie forgive me. I just naturally assume everybody uses WordWizard, WordOrigins (WO), PhraseFinder (PF), and WordSmith (WS or AWAD). I will at once desist the practice

'S'all right; I'll try to remember from now on. The only person who strenuously objected to acronyms was Dr. Bill, and his sight is so far gone now that he can't read much; I'm not sure he even reads posts at all any more. No prob. here.

just for the record, those aren't acronyms, but merely initialisms -- and not very helpful ones at that, since they could stand (as FS has pointed out) for a number of other things.

Ok; thanks.

Jackie again thanks for your infinite patience and tact

Hey--I am in such need of others being patient with me, the least I can do is try to be likewise.

Still it's a rare quality to be cherished

whole lotta cherishing going on around here!