Posted in debunking forwards, forwards, heads up, ranty mcranterson, words on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s an email forward that’s been circulating since at least 2003 that lists loads of statistical data about various accomplishments in Iraq now that Coalition forces have been present. I doubted that I could find verifications for all of the individual stats listed, and Snopes doesn’t bother to go that far either. One post [...]
Posted in debunking forwards, heads up, images, ranty mcranterson, well you see officer on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I came across this forward in my immense backlog of unread emails that I decided to sift through today starting with the oldest. The forward was sent to me in July of 2006, so I figured I would look it up first, to see whether the placards the demonstrators are holding were perhaps photoshopped [...]
Posted in crybaby, debunking forwards, forwards on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Yes, I’m going through a backlog of forwards I never got around to reading. There are a few in particular that really bring up a few issues with me, so I figured I’d put in my two cents.
Joe Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN ) for 6am. [...]
Posted in debunking forwards, forwards, ranty mcranterson, well you see officer on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Possibly titled, “She Really Was A Traitor”, this particular forward warns that Jane Fonda is about to be honored as one of the 100 Greatest Women. There are a number of major red flags that pop up that just shoot down the credibility of this supposedly truth-telling forward.
(a) She will not soon be given the [...]
Posted in debunking forwards, forwards, well you see officer on April 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is yet another step in the clever concept of using Snopes itself as a basis for proof, but even still preys on the fact that (a) people are not going to click on the Snopes link to investigate, or (b) will click on the link and read that it is “real” but not read [...]
Posted in General Stuff, big freakin woop, debunking forwards, heads up, well you see officer on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
This one had me a bit stumped. When I searched for the email’s title, I only got one single entry in the entire Google dbase, of a forum post from what I presumed to be a family reunion site in a “hey look at this” type of message. I changed the “four” to [...]
Posted in debunking forwards, forwards, well you see officer on March 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Being typically skeptical of most things I see, even stuff in general, I had to do a little investigation into a forward I got about a few pictures of a polar bear playing with a sled dog.
First I searched for the forward title, but that brought up way too many duplicated entries just posting the [...]
