Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Questions that Snopes can't or won't answer.

Funny stuff on the ultimate debunker website. Snopes is one of those "final solution" websites, meaning that when you quote it during a discussion, it's accepted as fact and the case is closed. Wikipedia is fast approaching this kind of finality. From Neil Gaiman.

2 comments:

Kathy said...

My favorite is this one:

"Is it true that a girl cannot get pregnant if her mate smokes the seeds of marijuana when he smokes marijuana, please tell me if this is true because a lot of people tell me it is true and a lot of people tell me it's not and I don't know whaether to believe it or notbecause [sic] this town lies a lot. thanks."

Shocho said...

Yeah, the introductory paragraph talks about "a sense of urgency," which is scary about some of these. :)