tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6270306578933066732.post6070494459435642791..comments2024-01-31T09:36:11.225-05:00Comments on Two Spirits - One Halle: Who Starts This Stuff?Hallehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03847654451426257182noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6270306578933066732.post-3754458246771402682010-09-02T09:51:30.517-04:002010-09-02T09:51:30.517-04:00What gets me is just how gullable supposedly intel...What gets me is just how gullable supposedly inteligent people are...<br /><br />A friend of mine had a similar email earlier in the year for a different month from a 'trusted friend who knows these things'. I smelt something from the back end of a bull and decided to do a quick fact check (looked in my outlook calendar) and found that that particular scenario happens every 11 months or Stacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07907346657510908857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6270306578933066732.post-48167052983772470062010-08-30T09:56:56.382-04:002010-08-30T09:56:56.382-04:00Last time Jim had fun with internet nonsense, he w...Last time Jim had fun with internet nonsense, he was able to turn the tables in an albeit nice way. A friend of his had read something and was compelled to call Jim on the phone and share. Jim's BS detector sounded the klaxon, and not only did he immediately go to Snopes, he started reading the post WORD FOR WORD along with his friend. It took a while for the friend to catch on to what was Sarah Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13018597739320720216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6270306578933066732.post-7788223311792562702010-08-28T17:55:01.127-04:002010-08-28T17:55:01.127-04:00Ironically my internet connection has been playing...Ironically my internet connection has been playing up since I wrote my earlier comment (honest). Either a) one of you girls typed "Google" into google; or b) I need to inform 50 people that if you take the first letter of the chapter titles in Harry Potter it spells "The bible is a bit silly" I can feel that Hickey even now..<br />Still if the world does end in 2012 my Claire L Hallamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01535569086150530774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6270306578933066732.post-2853611935643452292010-08-28T16:42:06.759-04:002010-08-28T16:42:06.759-04:00@Melissa: sometimes they even tell you that a huge...@Melissa: sometimes they even tell you that a huge hickey will appear on your nose if you don't forward this on to thirty people... (or something like that) ;P<br /><br />@Veronica; replying with a snopes quote one too many times has resulted in some correspondents removing me from their list (Whaaaa I am so upset about that). Obviously some people are not interested in knowing the truth.Hallehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03847654451426257182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6270306578933066732.post-71423171260556650442010-08-28T16:18:36.829-04:002010-08-28T16:18:36.829-04:00Reminds me of the one that's been going around...Reminds me of the one that's been going around for years about Mars being closer to the earth than ever and that it won't happen again in our lifetimes.<br /><br />I totally hate chain letters, which have only become worse via email. I never send them on, and often return them with a Snopes URL debunking whatever the message claims.VĂ©ro Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02895169022031921712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6270306578933066732.post-48308314523863705952010-08-28T16:01:21.861-04:002010-08-28T16:01:21.861-04:00My favourite twist on this is Wikipedia as an auth...My favourite twist on this is Wikipedia as an authoritative source of information. So, a prankster alters a wikipedia page to say that celeb A has died in a freak rain of fishes. Idiot journalist B picks up on this and runs it in paper C which is then used as authoritative reference to back up the original wikipedia flasehood. <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/10/balls_festival/" rel=Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08027942517258679266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6270306578933066732.post-24576452912889159182010-08-28T15:09:02.867-04:002010-08-28T15:09:02.867-04:00Of course you also know that if you type "goo...Of course you also know that if you type "google" into Google you can break the internet!<br />(apologies to Graham Linehan for repeating his joke),<br />[of course typing "Bing" into Bing brings up nothing at all]Claire L Hallamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01535569086150530774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6270306578933066732.post-30926217646017514572010-08-28T14:40:23.563-04:002010-08-28T14:40:23.563-04:00That sounds similar one of those full of crap chai...That sounds similar one of those full of crap chain emails, that get passed around all the time, spamming up the internet. I despise those things. Even though filled with inaccuracies, people often take their content for granted and pass them on to others. Many of them are in big bold colorful font, double or even triple spaced, and often filled with religious or patriotic platitudes and cute or Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04600684740584460891noreply@blogger.com