I frequently send Snopes pages to friends and relatives who send me such glurge.
On one occasion I got a glurge page that itself had a Snopes link, as if in a pre-emptive strike. The relevant piece of glurge was that some relatively-famous supposedly sent out an e-mail critical of Barack Obama. The Snopes link sacknowledged that the mentioned quasi-0celebrity did, indeed, send out such a letter. I think they just wanted to be able to point to a Snopes story that, for once, proved their case was true. My reaction is that proving that a conservative celebrity really did send out an anti-Obama mailing is setting the bar pretty low.
Since then I’ve sent her references from places other than Snopes, to show her that Snopes isn’t the only debunking site out there.
Actually you comment in jest has truth to it. Snopes is being branded as a far left web site (take a guess by who) and efforts are being made to discredit the site.
Heh, you beat me in linking to that. If I had to choose a facebook post that summarizes whats wrong with the human race, that’d be the one.
But it’s already been checked with Snopes.
It says so right in the email!
In fairness though, those cookies were DELICIOUS!
I wonder if it’s the same recipe…
scoff That’s pure UL! Read it on Snopes!
Yeah, probably. I can’t check now, I’m at work.
I was thinking of that one, too.
Pick any topic, any topic!, and XKCD has a cartoon about it.
There should be an internet rule about this.
Randall’s law, perhaps?
Oh, great, thanks a million. There go the next four hours of my life. ::wanders off to check out that site::
I sometime don’t notice zombies, but “MySpace” and “computer savvy” in one line tipped me off to this one right away.
Old thread or new, grammar and spelling are painful. I can oy hope the OP was posted by phone. Otherwise, eek.
Oy, indeed.
Gaudere’s Law, oy!