ATTENTION SKEPTICAL DOPERS! A website after our own hearts!!!

The On-Line Museum of Hoaxes!

Every swindle, con-job, scam, or looney claim you could think of! All recounted in an engaging style, with much professionalism!

The founder must be related to Unca Cecil Himself! :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

They trying to knock Snopes off the mantle?

Be kind—if ya view, then post.

Other Dopers will like this link.
BTW—Vote For The Cecil Smiley!

Was I too unsubtle? :wink:

Oooh. I like the little quizzes they have. Hoax Photo Test is a good one. Definately a site to keep an eye on.


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Cool!
This is one to add to the reference list.

Wow, great site. Thanks, Bosca!

Unlike Snopes, this site doesn’t look like it was designed by an 8-year-old with ADD.

Hey, I likes Snopes!

Psssht, Cecil smiley all the way!

Love it or lump it, you can’t say Snopes is pretty.

But the Museum of Hoaxes isn’t nearly as well-written or documented as Snopes.

It’s not perfect, but then Snopes often leaves cites out of things they could have easily cited, too. I wonder why they do that. It’s always bugged me.

I’ve only read a couple of the Museum of Hoaxes articles, but they seemed decent. Gotta say that I don’t like that “to see the rest of these articles, buy the book!” crap. I only noticed that just now.

Eh, I guess both sites have their place. I do like that the museum arranges things chronologically.

They kinda took most of the humour out of the one about sawing Manhattan in half. But its easier on the eyes than Snopes and has more hoaxes, even if the article quality isn’t spectacular.

When the hell did a SDMB moderator get mixed up into an urban legend? Nobody tells me nothin’ any more.

[sub]Big thanks, Bosda. I’d forgotten about this site, and lost most o’ my bookmarks to a system crash during backup, a while back. One less I gotta use my brain to remember.[/sub]

I like this. Cheers, Bosda.

Lots of good reading here! Thanks for sharing Bosda!

Especially nifty was the arrangement of hoaxes by time period. The only niggle is the constant push for the book. Slightly irritating but…

What a cool site. I don’t know why anybody is comparing it to snopes, though. They have completely different purposes. This seems to be about pranks that people pull that are generally quickly identified.

As opposed to urban legends which are passed on as true, and generally believed by most people. Not necessarily specific pranks played on the public at large…

“Bosca”?

“Bosca”?!?
Y’all keep this up, Newton Sparr :wink: and I’m gonna put the Curse Of The Seven White Geese on y’all, see if I don’t . :wink: :smiley: :smiley:

D’oh! Don’t ask me why, but I’ve been incorrectly pronouncing your handle in my head for three years now. Thanks for setting me straight.

Sorry 'bout that. :slight_smile: