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23
Nov
2009
Some Facts About Cyber Monday

7 hours ago by admin

Cyber Monday is, of course, the online shopping version or followup to Black Friday. Is Cyber Monday the busiest online shopping day of the year? No. According to Snopes, the busiest day for internet sales occurs around mid-December. Cyber Monday, meanwhile, has only been about the 12th busiest onli ...

Rich Dog Millionaire™ - richdogmillionaire.com · 2 references

21
Nov
2009
Top 10 Medieval Urban Legends

2 days ago by Administrator

Who doesn’t love a good legend? They are obviously extremely popular owing to the millions of spam emails that fly around the internet every day filled with the latest urban legend waiting for snopes to debunk it.

The Big Treasure - kenmaster.net

19
Nov
2009
The magic lie

3 days ago by lovable liberal

The Velvet Revolution began with a lie, so the New York Times says: On Tuesday, thousands of Czechs marched through the streets here, to the sound of wailing sirens and the growls of police dogs, eerily replicating a nonviolent student march on Nov. 17, 1989, in which the police rounded on demonstra ...

lovable liberal - lovable-liberal.blogspot.com · Rank: 59,924 · 12 references

Sometimes it pays to be late for choir practice…

3 days ago by Diane

Came across this interesting little post on Snopes. On a given Sunday in 1950, every member of the West Side Baptist Church choir in Beatrice, Nebraska, was late for practice. The tuneless church exploded that evening, just five minutes into the regularly scheduled rehearsal time. Chance? Luck? I do ...

Strength 4 Today - strengthfortoday.wordpress.com · Rank: 116,314 · 4 references

SNOPES (EL REPLANDOR DE LA HOGUERA)

4 days ago by Pedro Incio Piñeiro

De La guerra carlista; 3, Los cruzados de la causa, de Valle-Inclán, p. 119 CAPÍTULO XXI El Marqués de Bradomín habló a media voz con Cara de Plata: —iTu padre sería un magnífico cabecilla! El hidalgo se volvió con arrogancia: —Sobrino, yo cuando levante una partida no será por un rey ni por un empe ...

BIBLINCIO - pincio.blogspot.com · 2 references

18
Nov
2009
Chessplayers Head Explodes: Could you be next?

4 days ago by JohnJurgens

Fireworks In short, no. Many chessplayers will have seen this, or a similar report. This one comes via ABC Homeopathy Forum: Dear Mr.Organon, I recently had a case of HCE (Hyper-Cerebral Electrosis), were I was ask to give my opinion, however, I thought that maybe a good homeopathic Guru like you co ...

Chesscube - blog.chesscube.com · 6 references

17
Nov
2009
SNOPES (A MATANZA DO PORCO)

5 days ago by Pedro Incio Piñeiro

Os resentidos - Galicia canibal (fai un sol de carallo) Fai un sol de carallo. Con isto da movida haiche moito ye-yé que, de noite e de día, usa gafas de sol: ¡Fai un sol de carallo! A matanza do porco A matanza do porco.- A berra e un conxunto de berros dun porco cando o van matar. San Martiño ofic ...

BIBLINCIO - pincio.blogspot.com · 2 references

15
Nov
2009
Announcing SOS: The Society of Smilers

7 days ago by Sliding on the ice...

(Photo: Look before ewe leap!) Ladies and Gents of all URLs and persuasions, I take enormous pleasure in announcing the formation of the Society of Smilers (SOS), hereinafter known as Grates, a grinning group of goodhearted folk who are the polar opposite of the Sect of Grouches (SOG), to be known a ...

When I'm 64 - seniorcitizenship.com

Fake IRS Email Scam

7 days ago by E Johnson

Fake IRS Email Scam – Underreported IncomeAuthor: Thomas AjavaIf there is one agency everyone responds to, it is the IRS. Scammers know this and have developed a host of campaigns using the name of the agency to sucker taxpayers into releasing information. A new email scam uses the threat of underre ...

IMI's TechTalk - blog.imitechtalk.com · Rank: 181,662 · 3 references

14
Nov
2009
Do you know John Hanson?

8 days ago by dewprocess

History has a strange way of reinventing itself, sometimes because a gap needed filling, and sometimes even when no gap existed. Take, for example, the case of one John Hanson. I recently received an email from an uncle of mine, suggesting that George Washington was not actually the first president ...

Muse Cubed - dewprocess.wordpress.com

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