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Robots of the Victorian Era
And Other Internet Hoaxes
(old news - 01:52PM Sunday Jan 25 2004)
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Although BBR members are more discerning than most, even some of us are taken in at times when a site, an e-mail, a warning, or an image is particularly convincing, or coincides with our beliefs. Robots of the Victorian Era and Buy Dehydrated Water are obvious hoax websites; others like Britain for Americans and the Bonsai Kitten site, while hoaxes, are not so obvious to some.

A variety of websites, listed here in no particular order, are available to help distinguish online fact from online fiction. Hopefully links to others will appear in the comments following this article. Despite what your grandmother thinks, not everything on the Internet is true.

Snopes
Hoaxbusters
Break the Chain
Urban Legends Guide
Truth or Fiction
Skeptic's Dictionary

Don't forget to finish your shopping at HomeDespot on the way home from the Christian Women's Wrestling show. Bill Gates is not dead.

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Mike
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join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
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Bonsai Kitten

THE BONSAI KITTEN IS REAL I HAVE ONE!!!!!

In fact, myself and the kids made a couple last week. They love it. (the kids that is)

Kalford
Seems To Be An Rtfm Problem.
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-20
Ontario

Re: Bonsai Kitten

said by Mike See Profile:
THE BONSAI KITTEN IS REAL I HAVE ONE!!!!!

In fact, myself and the kids made a couple last week. They love it. (the kids that is)

You no good amateur!!!!! You're not licensed to make your own bonsai kitten. I'm reporting you to the authorities.
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"I reverse my right to type siht the wrong way."

A Noni Mouse

I thought you WERE a Bonsai Kitten!

spike010101
Premium
join:2003-11-28
Lacey, WA

uhh yeah

WTF DOES THAT MEAN?;):o:o:(

Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
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Gullible

quote:
Although BBR members are more discerning than most
I dunno, I've seen people post things here you'd have to be pretty gullible to believe.
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Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
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Re: Gullible

Here's another people seem to not realise isn't really real.
»www.blackpeopleloveus.com/
Desdinova

join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD

Re: Gullible

I tried to send the www.blackpeopleloveus.com link to a friend of mine at his AOL address and the e-mail was kicked back to me saying:

"554 TRANSACTION FAILED:
(HVU:B1) The URL contained in your email to AOL members has generated a high volume of complaints. Per our Unsolicit..."

It's nice to know that AOL concerned enough to keep that big, mean world away from its users. I understand that as further protection they're going to insist their members wear helmets and elbowpads during online game play BECAUSE YOU CAN NEVER BE TOO CAREFUL.

And no running in the house.

Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
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join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
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Re: Gullible

said by Desdinova See Profile:
I tried to send the www.blackpeopleloveus.com link to a friend of mine at his AOL address and the e-mail was kicked back to me saying:

"554 TRANSACTION FAILED:
(HVU:B1) The URL contained in your email to AOL members has generated a high volume of complaints. Per our Unsolicit..."

It's nice to know that AOL concerned enough to keep that big, mean world away from its users. I understand that as further protection they're going to insist their members wear helmets and elbowpads during online game play BECAUSE YOU CAN NEVER BE TOO CAREFUL.

And no running in the house.

Sigh
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Omega
Displaced Ohioan
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the sites are funny

Reading some of these sites has given me a good laugh.

You would pretty much have to be an idiot to think that some of these sites are real.
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"The doctor's X-Rayed my head and found nothing" My site

eusty
Remember - Google Is Your Friend

join:2002-05-20
UK

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Re: the sites are funny

Britain for the Americans...classic!!

Especially if you are British

SYNACK
Just Firewall It
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join:2001-03-05
Venice, CA

Dont forget the dangers of DHMO

Since reading about the health risks of DHMO pollution of regular water, I only drink dehydrated water. I even have it in my pool.

FLECOM
Bay Networks Freak
Premium
join:2003-03-03
Miami, FL

Re: Dont forget the dangers of DHMO

ROFL!!! too funny!!!

quote:
Despite the known dangers of DHMO, it continues to be used daily by industry, government, and even in private homes across the U.S. and worldwide. Some of the well-known uses of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:

as an industrial solvent and coolant,
in nuclear power plants,
by the U.S. Navy in the propulsion systems of some older vessels,
by elite athletes to improve performance,
in the production of Styrofoam,
in biological and chemical weapons manufacture,
as a spray-on fire suppressant and retardant,
in abortion clinics,
as a major ingredient in many home-brewed bombs,
as a byproduct of hydrocarbon combustion in furnaces and air conditioning compressor operation,
in cult rituals,
by the Church of Scientology on their members and their members' families,
by both the KKK and the NAACP during rallies and marches,
by pedophiles and pornographers (for uses we'd rather not say here),
by the clientele at a number of homosexual bath houses in New York City and San Francisco,
historically, in Hitler's death camps in Nazi Germany, and in prisons in Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Libya, Iraq and Iran,
in World War II prison camps in Japan, and in prisons in China, for various forms of torture,
by the Serbian military as authorized by Slobodan Milosevic in their recent ethnic cleansing campaign,
in animal research laboratories, and
in pesticide production and distribution.
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BellSouth sucks
cewyatt

join:2001-07-24
Atlanta, GA

Re: Dont forget the dangers of DHMO

Careful, Republicans in Congress along with John Ashcroft and the neocons (Cheney, Rove, Wolfowitz, Rumsfield) will seek to ban DHMO and send anyone caught with it to Gitmo.

FLECOM
Bay Networks Freak
Premium
join:2003-03-03
Miami, FL

bored today eh?

ROFL @ HomeDespot!!!

that was so funny, and that bill gates one is pretty cool, you can download the movie for $5 and its like near-dvd quality, you need quicktime or quicktime alternative to play it tho

like 50 min download @ 1.5mbits, sigh, BellSouth needs to offer higher speeds already
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BellSouth sucks
Ender_W
Does Microsoft Mean Small And Squishy?

join:2002-09-14
Saint Louis, MO

I feel cheated

OMG! You mean to tell me that the dehydrated water is a hoax?!?! I just dropped a few grand on an order!

ninersfan

join:2001-02-09
Hayward, CA

Re: I feel cheated

said by Ender_W See Profile:
OMG! You mean to tell me that the dehydrated water is a hoax?!?! I just dropped a few grand on an order!

a few grand? jeeez, you can get it a lot cheaper than that on ebay, hehe

»search.ebay.com/search/search.dl···ed+water

linicx
Caveat Emptor
Premium
join:2002-12-03
United State

How about this ..

ReHydrated water tastes better and it's better for you.
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Be careful what you ask for - you just might get it.

furlonium
Computer Over? Virus equals Very Yes?

join:2002-05-08
Bethlehem, PA

Re: How about this ..

about home despot.com

This page is a parody of the Home Depot, whose stores have a much smaller selection of surface-to-air missiles

lmao
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