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Men flow into life, and ebb into death.

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The rhinoceros finds no place in them for its horn,
The tiger no place for its claw,
The soldier no place for a weapon,
For death finds no place in them.
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White Hat Liberal Geek Dad

Monday, June 16. 2003

Skepticism is healthy

Hoaxes
I received an listserv email today with the Subject line:

Fw: FW: AMBER ALERT - PASS IT ON

And my skeptics alarm went off. 1) multiple forwards. 2) All caps. 3) Insisting I pass it on.

The email was about a child missing from South Carolina for the past 2 weeks,and it was heartbreaking.

Luckily, a quick Internet search for 'Penny Brown' turned up the variations on a hoax that has been circulating for a year and a half.

The listserv is a group of people I know, so I didn't flame. but I justwish people would realize that the Internet is 80% garbage!

Posted by JaBbA in Hoaxes at 10:18 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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