# White people and double-blinking

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-and-double-blinking/171624>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 28, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-and-double-blinking/171624 "2003-04-28T07:30:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-and-double-blinking/171624/41 "2003-04-29T05:11:49Z")

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Okay, I made up the entire scenario, including the “double-blink”. Stop trying to analyze it.

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**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-and-double-blinking/171624/42 "2003-04-29T06:50:34Z")

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Hey, being black and all, can I hack my way into the Internal White Network if I double blink just right?

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**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-and-double-blinking/171624/43 "2003-04-29T09:38:51Z")

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> Okay, I made up the entire scenario, including the “double-blink”. Stop trying to analyze it.

as a joker, let me say this: if you tell a joke and someone believes it to be the truth, you have told a lie.

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-and-double-blinking/171624/44 "2003-04-29T10:30:55Z")

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> \*Originally posted by T. Slothrop \*  
> \*\*as a joker, let me say this: if you tell a joke and someone believes it to be the truth, you have told a lie. \*\*

…unless the person is unusually credulous. (Cf. the widescale belief in spaghetti trees following an April 1 BBC documentary).

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**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-and-double-blinking/171624/45 "2003-04-29T19:20:08Z")

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If this is a parody thread, doesn’t it belong in the pit?

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**Author:** ![yoyo3500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/5daacb/32.png) [@yoyo3500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyo3500)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-and-double-blinking/171624/46 "2003-04-29T19:43:20Z")

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I actually do a lot of triple-blinking…

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-and-double-blinking/171624/47 "2003-04-29T23:07:12Z")

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[John Travolta in a really bad movie based on L Ron Hubbard’s sci-fi]

Stupid Humans!

[/JTiarbmboLRH’ss-f]

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