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Snopes.com
« on: January 08, 2007, 01:48:39 am »
It was poetic, really. I was reading the latest hoaxes on Snopes.com and my mom sent me an email with the "new" Mercedes that is driven by a joystick.  Kellichou is the one in my family who typically hits the "Reply To All" button with a link to the story, whether it's true or false.

I sat back and waited, and sure enough Kelli came through with the Snopes link. :D
 
Do any of you guys have problems with relatives and friends sending stupid forwards? Thank Heavens for gmail, because I just set up filters to try and preemptively shove the forwarded crap into the rubbish before I ever have to see it.
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Re: Snopes.com
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2007, 02:22:30 am »
Do not lose hope.  After many incidents of replying to my mom's fowarded emails with links to Snopes, imagine my satisfaction the day she instead sent me an email saying "what's that site you always send me links to?"
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Re: Snopes.com
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2007, 02:38:21 am »
Yeah, I used to get those email forwards from my family too and now they look it up on Snopes before forwarding it.   Sometimes the status is True so they'll forward it anyway along with the Snopes link for more info.

My family's pretty well educated, so we're all about Education for everyone on our email lists.
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Re: Snopes.com
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2007, 02:54:57 am »
Quote from: jough on January 08, 2007, 02:38:21 am
Yeah, I used to get those email forwards from my family too and now they look it up on Snopes before forwarding it.   Sometimes the status is True so they'll forward it anyway along with the Snopes link for more info.

My family's pretty well educated, so we're all about Education for everyone on our email lists.

Man... unlike omba's mom, my folks NEVER seem to catch on. I would weep with joy if they paused before hitting the FWD button and actually checked Snopes first.
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Re: Snopes.com
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2007, 03:51:27 am »
my little sister constantly sends me this crap.

also, she has figured out that GMail has this bizarre "chat" feature, and sends me insipid messages constantly. I do not understand why. I am not usually this easily annoyed.
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Re: Snopes.com
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2007, 03:53:30 am »
Sometimes I'll get "Could this be true?" questions with a forward from my family.  They know there's someplace they could look - but they're lazy that way.  They know I can't resist debunking stuff.  My stepmother is forever forwarding prayer chains and "warn everyone you know!" stuff.  Finally, I have a coworker who sends me powerpoint presentations of puppies, rainbows, cherubs and other assorted kitsch.  I usually dump those unopened as they seem like good candidates for virus vehicles.
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Re: Snopes.com
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2007, 12:54:26 pm »
Actually I don't mind people forwarding this kind of stuff so much, since at least you feel like you've done some good sending back the links to Snopes.  But there seems to be nothing I can do about the ones who forward every single joke or link to UTube that's going around the net.  I don't click on the UTube links but since 1 out of 10 of the jokes are good, I can't help reading them and being annoyed 9 out of 10 times.
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Re: Snopes.com
« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2007, 02:45:19 pm »
My mom is the kind of person who will forward pictures of adorable kittens or something and add her own two cents about why she's sending it, but she's also the kind of person who changes her default font and type size so I get "Thinking of you ~ This was TOO SPECIAL to keep to myself!!1!" in 24-point Comic Sans.

Thanks, mom.  I know you mean well.
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Re: Snopes.com
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2007, 02:56:27 pm »
Quote from: Turbo Ninja on January 08, 2007, 02:45:19 pm
My mom is the kind of person who will forward pictures of adorable kittens or something and add her own two cents about why she's sending it, but she's also the kind of person who changes her default font and type size so I get "Thinking of you ~ This was TOO SPECIAL to keep to myself!!1!" in 24-point Comic Sans.

Thanks, mom.  I know you mean well.

HEH! Oh man, it's funny 'cos it's TRUE. The !1! is a nice touch.

I hate it when people have to post or write email in a "special" font, and the huge fonts are even more irritating. I had to use another woman's computer at work the other day, and she had set Internet Explorer to use some hideous, hard-to-read font as its default. I was trying to find information on NOAA's page and was getting all pissed ("WHY THE FUCK DID THEY USE THIS FONT JESUS") until I realized that Miss Retarded had specially set her computer to use that font. 'Twas not the government's fault at all!  Special.
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Re: Snopes.com
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2007, 03:43:34 pm »
About two years ago my Personel Dept sent out that e-mail about how if you reduced the world to a village of a 100 then the 1 American would own the only computer and blah blah blah. I sent back the Snopes link but never got a reply.
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« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2007, 06:38:48 pm »
wait, so... Cort-- that was not real? Damn. Where on Snopes is it? I looked at a bunch of the pages and couldn't find it. If you could just tell me which section it's in, I can find it. You know.
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« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2007, 06:56:21 pm »
Search for "village of 100" and it's the first hit.
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Re: Snopes.com
« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2007, 07:02:19 pm »
Quote from: linnea on January 08, 2007, 01:48:39 am
It was poetic, really. I was reading the latest hoaxes on Snopes.com and my mom sent me an email with the "new" Mercedes that is driven by a joystick.  Kellichou is the one in my family who typically hits the "Reply To All" button with a link to the story, whether it's true or false.

I sat back and waited, and sure enough Kelli came through with the Snopes link. :D

That's me, too, and as a result some people in my extended family have stopped including me on their mass e-mails.

It was really entertaining when I had my domain (bigfool.com) set up to forward ALL mail sent to the domain to my inbox, regardless of what was in front of the @ sign.  Since bigfool is only one letter different than bigfoot, and bigfoot.com is a major e-mail forwarding service, I got a lot a lot a lot of mail that wasn't intended for me.  If there was a particularly egregious mass rant (e.g. "Harry Potter promotes devil worship, this must be stopped!" which was sent in all seriousness), I'd be all Reply Allin' even though I didn't know anyone involved.  This usually yielded "Who the hell are you?  Quit sending me this crap!"  Good times.
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Re: Snopes.com
« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2007, 02:33:22 am »
Quote from: linnea on January 08, 2007, 01:48:39 am
It was poetic, really. I was reading the latest hoaxes on Snopes.com and my mom sent me an email with the "new" Mercedes that is driven by a joystick.  Kellichou is the one in my family who typically hits the "Reply To All" button with a link to the story, whether it's true or false.

I sat back and waited, and sure enough Kelli came through with the Snopes link. :D

Hee!  A tiny can for you!  To those of you who allege can nepotism, you're damn right.  It's hard, being the email forward party whip, but someone's gotta let everybody know it's a hoax, right? 
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« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2007, 05:30:33 am »
Quote from: kellichou on January 09, 2007, 02:33:22 am
Hee!  A tiny can for you!  To those of you who allege can nepotism, you're damn right.  It's hard, being the email forward party whip, but someone's gotta let everybody know it's a hoax, right? 

Heh! See why I love her, folks? She's effing rad, that's why. Keeping the retarded email in check. Wombie, I love you. Being a twin ROCKS.
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