11.   Just let a rumor get started that he, Pignon, is gay.

12.   Knicks officials are blaming Heat guard Tim Hardaway for starting rumors about a deal involving Chris Childs and Allan Houston.

13.   Nobody knows how these rumors get started.

14.   Near the end of the checkerboard puzzle grid, I spied the clue, that morsel of insight into how these rumors get started.

15.   Next day I went to school and started a rumor that Hermie had leprosy and his fingers and toes were going to fall off.

16.   Now, the speculation has turned to who started the rumors about the talks.

17.   People who confuse truth and falsehood or black and white, and who start rumors, must not be tolerated.

18.   Some House Republicans speculate that the rumors were started by Democrats who hoped to destabilize the Republican hierarchy.

19.   Start a rumor that the owners are thinking of making Forrest Gump the next commissioner of baseball.

20.   Television commentators, who are never held accountable for anything, cannot start rumors about signings or firings or trades, ever.