# Hoaxes revealed! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 26, 2001, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoaxes-revealed/83932 "2001-09-26T16:06:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoaxes-revealed/83932/21 "2001-09-26T21:47:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*Of course you’re skeptical, Dex. You’re a pisces. \*\* Sheer perfection! ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoaxes-revealed/83932/22 "2001-09-26T22:06:43Z")
Fnord. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoaxes-revealed/83932/23 "2001-09-26T22:14:01Z")
I keep hoping that James Cameron and David Copperfield are going to pull away the mirrors and thank the six thousand participants in the Greatest Magic Trick Ever. I hope they’ve enjoyed their two-week vacation in Cancun. People’ll fucking disbelieve anything, given enough time and Internet access. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoaxes-revealed/83932/24 "2001-09-26T22:24:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \* > \*\*I lied. It probably started with Plato’s Cave analogy. And Horace wrote some poetry about the non-existence of the material world. And old wossname Descartes doubted that anything existed. I guess if a serious philospher like Descartes can doubt the existence of everything, then it’s OK for people to doubt the reality of stuff like the moon, the earth, Herbert Hoover, Las Vegas, or Elvis. > > Of course, there are people who put Descartes before Horace. \*\* Argh. Boo. Hiss. Ugh. [sub]Can I steal that one? Please?\*\* ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoaxes-revealed/83932/25 "2001-09-27T01:47:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \* > \*\*I own a bridge in Brooklyn that I can sell you real cheap because the market is down and I need the cash. \*\* You can’t fool me that easy. I know there isn’t really any such thing as the Brooklyn Bridge. ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoaxes-revealed/83932/26 "2001-09-27T02:29:28Z")
Hey I actually got a check for $5000 from Microsoft for forwarding that e-mail. It just got lost by the US postal service. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > \*\*Wait a minute here… > > Does this mean I **shouldn’t** believe those emails I get?? I shouldn’t have opened that bank account for that guy from Africa? > > :rolleyes \*\* I gave them both my checking and savings account numbers plus the number to my 401K plan, just in case they needed all of those numbers for that important financial transaction. (I actually dated – note past tense here – a guy that actually believed that the moon landing was a hoax. He thought he was intelligent, what a maroon) ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoaxes-revealed/83932/27 "2001-09-27T04:25:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \* > **- There is no such city as Albuquerque.** So _that’s_ why Bugs Bunny kept getting lost! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoaxes-revealed/83932.md?page=1)