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Separating the facts from the fiction
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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
9/17/2007 5:13 AM |
Do you get as tired as I do of receiving all those urban legend e-mails that seem to be perpetually circulating around the Internet? You know, the ones about Target being owned by the French, the millions due you from some saint in Nigeria, and how Lee Marvin said Bob Keeshan (Capt. Kangaroo) was the “bravest man he’d ever met”? It seems like every week, there’s some new, at least to me, story going around as outrageous as one might hear in a liars’ round-robin contest.
I’ve gotten into the habit of checking out many of these stories that clog our e-mail facilities. One I frequently use is www.snopes.com which seems to have the low-down on just about anything that pops up into my e-mail box. Checking stories I receive through snopes.com has saved me the embarrassment of forwarding some of the more ridiculous e-mails I’ve received to everyone whose address appears in my computer’s address book.
Most times, I’ll send a brief message to the person who has sent the offending e-mail to me, along with the proper Web address for the Snopes entry rebutting the urban legend, so that the sender can see for him- or herself what the real story is. You can also check www.urbanmyths.com for the veracity of many of these urban legends, too. Another site that lists multiple sources to check out various stories is at www.urbanlegends.com so there are plenty of resources on the Web to check out all these fantastic stories that pop up onto our computer monitors as we check our daily e-mail.
I like being able to sort the fact from the fiction, don’t you? |
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Re: Separating the facts from the fiction |
By Luzviminda on
9/17/2007 12:05 PM |
| I am not easily annoyed by all those urban legend emails. I read them then press the delete button on my keyboard. What I don’t like are those emails that say, I can grow my “instrument” about three inches. Gee! I did not know I had one. Hope you are having a great day, Emory! |
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Re: Separating the facts from the fiction |
By bawble on
9/24/2007 6:44 AM |
| Yes, some people are easily led into passing on those idiotic warnings that are simply chain letters designed to manipulate the unthinking. It is easy to check them out and invariably they are found to be hoaxes. the "legends" perhaps can simply be ignored unless they are about a topic of specific interest, but the spam ads... I wonder if anybody ever buys something from them? I would never by from them nor would I ever buy from a telemarketer. So, why do they do it? |
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