Robots of the Victorian EraAnd Other Internet Hoaxes ( old news - 01:52PM Sunday Jan 25 2004) tags: fun 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 DictionaryDon't forget to finish your shopping at HomeDespot on the way home from the Christian Women's Wrestling show. Bill Gates is not dead. Related:- It Was Barry White
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 |  |  |  |  |   spike010101 Premium join:2003-11-28 Lacey, WA | uhh yeah WTF DOES THAT MEAN? ;):o:o:( | |
|   Maxo Your tax dollars at work. Premium,VIP join:2002-11-04 Tallahassee, FL clubs:
| 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. -- Girls don't really like me That's why I hate myself Maybe it's cause of the way I look Or maybe it's something else »maxolasersquad.com | |
|  |   Maxo Your tax dollars at work. Premium,VIP join:2002-11-04 Tallahassee, FL clubs: | 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. Premium,VIP join:2002-11-04 Tallahassee, FL clubs:
| Re: Gullible said by Desdinova : 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 -- Girls don't really like me That's why I hate myself Maybe it's cause of the way I look Or maybe it's something else »maxolasersquad.com | |
|  |  |   eusty Remember - Google Is Your Friend
join:2002-05-20 UK 1 edit | Re: the sites are funny Britain for the Americans...classic!!
Especially if you are British  | |
|   SYNACK Just Firewall It Premium,Mod 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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|  |  |  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 -- 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 : 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.  -- 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
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