By Slanted Light

Yeah, I think it was the newspapers/media that spread the rumour rather than the internet - at least it appears in articles from pre-internet times, though there are definitely people trying to keep it alive and well.

I think MS has been quoted a few times as saying that at first he wasn't very impressed by LC, but since LC had just replaced a friend of his that's probably understandable - and he says he apologised to LC afterwards and that everything was fine. But this was right at the very beginning, not for the whole 4 years! They've both apparently said that they were competitive too, but that doesn't mean they didn't get on. Stoopid media misrepresentation. There's far too much evidence to suggest that they got on really well, I think! And that makes me happy too... *vbg*