OOmposter!

MSNBC reports: "A Nevada man who long claimed to have played one of Willy Wonka's Ooompa Loompas in the original 1971 motion picture now admits he was lying.

Ezzy Dame is a 57-year-old art enthusiast and high-fashion hairdresser in Reno. He confessed to the fib earlier this week in an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal. Dame says the false claim was used to pad his resume and seemed harmless at the time but grew into a beast of a deception. He told the newspaper he never made a profit off the claim.

He says he continued to tell the tale because there is something special when a child looks at a little person and is not scared. He says when he told children he played the part, they smiled and looked at him as a human being instead of a freak."

Is this guy serious?

"Don't be afraid little girl, just imagine that there are dozens of me wearing brown jump suits, with green curly hair, orange skin, and white bushy eyebrows. And imagine that we appear after something horrible happens to a child and then we dance and sing about that childs biggest character flaw as if they deserved their horrible fate."