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| − | Snopes is a popular website for checking the validity of urban legends. In the comic, an urban legend is introduced about Snopes running a spam operations. | + | {{w|Snopes}} is a popular website for checking the validity of urban legends. In the comic, an urban legend is introduced about Snopes running a spam operations. [[Cueball]] would like to disprove the urban legend, but realizes to do so he would need to quote Snopes. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
| − | :Another urban legend? You should check out Snopes before sending me this stuff. | + | :Cueball: Another urban legend? You should check out Snopes before sending me this stuff. |
| − | :Oops; yeah. | + | :Friend: Oops; yeah. |
| − | :Man, Snopes is really great--independent fact-checkers trawling our collective discourse, filtering out misinformation. | + | :Cueball: Man, Snopes is really great--independent fact-checkers trawling our collective discourse, filtering out misinformation. |
| − | :Yeah, but they have their dark side. The couple that runs snopes.com also runs a network of spam servers that start many of those forwarded stories in the first place, ensuring they'll always have business. | + | :Friend: Yeah, but they have their dark side. The couple that runs snopes.com also runs a network of spam servers that start many of those forwarded stories in the first place, ensuring they'll always have business. |
| − | :That's absurd. Plus, it's definitely not true--it was debunked by... | + | :Cueball: That's absurd. Plus, it's definitely not true--it was debunked by... |
| − | :Yes? | + | :Friend: Yes? |
| − | :... Oh my God. | + | :Cueball: ... Oh my God. |
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Revision as of 23:10, 17 February 2013
| Snopes |
 Title text: The MythBusters are even more sinister. |
Explanation
Snopes is a popular website for checking the validity of urban legends. In the comic, an urban legend is introduced about Snopes running a spam operations. Cueball would like to disprove the urban legend, but realizes to do so he would need to quote Snopes.
Transcript
- Cueball: Another urban legend? You should check out Snopes before sending me this stuff.
- Friend: Oops; yeah.
- Cueball: Man, Snopes is really great--independent fact-checkers trawling our collective discourse, filtering out misinformation.
- Friend: Yeah, but they have their dark side. The couple that runs snopes.com also runs a network of spam servers that start many of those forwarded stories in the first place, ensuring they'll always have business.
- Cueball: That's absurd. Plus, it's definitely not true--it was debunked by...
- Friend: Yes?
- Cueball: ... Oh my God.
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First!Unpopular Opinions (talk) 17:19, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
Should it be mentioned that 509: Induced Current is related to the title text? 162.158.62.28 16:42, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Oh my god is right. Z1mp0st0rz (talk) 20:15, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
