Making up
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- Dave Barry really likes to write "I am not making this up", "This really happened", or "I am not making up this _______" after something that is strange but true.
Source: Author Catchphrase - In an episode of My Gym Partner's a Monkey, when Adam is tired of Jake making up lies about him to put in the school newspaper, he decides to give Jake a taste of his own medicine and write a lie about him.
Source: Accidental Truth
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