a good friend of mine just sent me an e-mail, george carlin's new rules for 2008. only problem is that it's neither for 2008, nor are they by george carlin.
is it so frigging difficult to fact check stuff before hitting the forward button?
and i'm not talking about some kinda mouth-breather here, either: this guy's pretty smart, pretty savvy about online stuff and all that. but he just can't help himself with the damned forwarding of e-mails!
usually when someone does this to me, i reply to all in the hopes of inflicting a mild amount of embarrassment that will lead to the offender not copying me on these things but he only sent it to me and one other person this time.
[/cranky]
ed
silverwhisper posted on Oct 29, 2007
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hidufel said on Oct 29, 2007....
eh... one of the folks sent in one of those emails to our office manager about supposedly absurd new fines from the washington state patrol, and he of course thinking hed do his duty forwarded it to our entire office. some 400 plus people.
i didnt have the heart to tell him it was false... soemhting about not wanting to embaras the big boss.
but yeah i hate it when people send these things on. one of my coworkers send me this stuff he gets from his brother all the time. ughh
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silverwhisper said on Oct 29, 2007....
i really dislike it when that happens to me.
[grumbles]
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CreativeWoman said on Oct 29, 2007....
Sorry you are cranky, Ed. :-) But, you know, I am guilty of NEVER fact checking a fun email before sending it on. My bad. The thought never even occurred to me.
CW
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silverwhisper said on Oct 29, 2007....
er...i didn't mean to make you feel bad about it, CW!
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CreativeWoman said on Oct 29, 2007....
Not a problem, Ed. I'll live. :-)
CW
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silverwhisper said on Oct 29, 2007....
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CreativeWoman said on Oct 29, 2007....
Snap out of it man. {Raises trout}
CW
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BlueHotRage said on Oct 30, 2007....
My dad had a HUGE problem with fact-checking e-mails before 2003, when I finally showed him how to navigate Snopes.
A couple weeks after the WTC attack in 2001, my dad got this e-mail about the "lost prophecies of Nostradamus" depicting the attacks and passed it around to the rest of us, probably hoping to diffuse his sense of panic.
Now, I'm no expert, but I'd heard Nostradamus' quatrains only forecast until... what, 2000? If that was when they stopped, or when he thought the world would end, how the hell could he have seen further? Also, while his quatrains were often quite vague, I didn't think he'd be SO obtuse as to refer to buildings as "brothers" or to America as some "land of the eagle" or whatever the hell it was.
Luckily, it came out in the newsmedia that, yes, it was a hoax. Nostradamus never wrote it. And my dad finally calmed down somewhat.
Stupid, panicky spammers... scaring my parents for no reason and generally fomenting dischord...
That should be MY job!
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silverwhisper said on Oct 31, 2007....
CW: bah! :p
blue: heh...me, i've always felt that prophecy is largely bunk, to be perfectly honest.
ed
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