Public Service Announcement
Feb. 28th, 2006 08:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaitouI really, really need to get the people at work to start looking at Snopes.com. I'm starting to feel bad about shooting down every new chain e-mail that gets forwarded around the office. First it was killer bears, (so very Colbert), and since then we've moved on to HIV in your ketchup, the Swiffer WetJet killing your pets, and Oliver North knowing about Bin Laden in '87 and Al Gore dismissing him.
Sometimes they're true, like the catfish that tried to eat a basketball, or the python that ate an impala deer and got stuck in the fence. And sometimes they're not true, but harmless (snopes kept me from forwarding one around at work about a guy who worked on his motorcycle in the house, went through a plate glass door, got blown up on the toilet and then a broken collarbone when the EMTs dropped him they were laughing so hard). But sometimes they'll effect the way you think about something. Like, sure I believe that our government is duplicitous enough to lie about when they knew Bin Laden was a threat...but i wouldn't want people to think that it's Al Gore's fault, and that Oliver North knew all about it when Bin Laden was working for us at the time. And an AIDS scare about ketchup is just plain irresponsible. Maybe I'm being too prissy about it, but it really gets on my nerves.
Try Ocean Breeze Snope. It gets you clean. Hmmmm.
(And extra points if you get the reference)
Sometimes they're true, like the catfish that tried to eat a basketball, or the python that ate an impala deer and got stuck in the fence. And sometimes they're not true, but harmless (snopes kept me from forwarding one around at work about a guy who worked on his motorcycle in the house, went through a plate glass door, got blown up on the toilet and then a broken collarbone when the EMTs dropped him they were laughing so hard). But sometimes they'll effect the way you think about something. Like, sure I believe that our government is duplicitous enough to lie about when they knew Bin Laden was a threat...but i wouldn't want people to think that it's Al Gore's fault, and that Oliver North knew all about it when Bin Laden was working for us at the time. And an AIDS scare about ketchup is just plain irresponsible. Maybe I'm being too prissy about it, but it really gets on my nerves.
Try Ocean Breeze Snope. It gets you clean. Hmmmm.
(And extra points if you get the reference)
