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Mod down, please! People who repeat this old trope about Al Gore aren't funny, they're just plain idiots.

I don't think you understand that term...

http://www.snopes.com/language/notthink/exception.asp

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp

Here is another aspect of the impact of CFLs compared to incandescent bulbs... per an EPA fact sheet, even if your CFL breaks the amount of Mercury released into the environment is less then the amount released by a regular bulb and a coal power plant. If you do break your CFL, there are steps that you need to take to get it cleaned up. Snopes has some good tips on how to do that

Frog. Kettle of water. Slowly apply heat.

That doesn't actually work.

...uh, I hear.

Snopes agrees. http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp

Never, apparently.

"Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawaii, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obamaâ(TM)s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures," Fukino said. http://www.kitv.com/politics/17860890/detail.html?rss=hon&psp=news

"As things turned out, when the Obama campaign made a copy of his Certificate of Live Birth from the State of Hawaii available on the internet in June 2008, it validated none of these rumors: The certificate shows his full name to be "Barack Hussein Obama II," it lists is father's race as "African" and his mother's as "Caucasian,", it contains no information about religion, and it reports his birthplace as being Honolulu, Hawaii."
Morover, both of Honolulu's major newspapers (the Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin) published announcements in August 1961 documenting the birth, in Honolulu, of a son to "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama" on August 4, 1961." http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp

The envelope thing is a myth, for the reasons pointed out by the other AC.

Yeah, this birth certificate thing will never be resolved.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp

Look at this PDF, page 8, top left picture

It's actually from here

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp

That said, I suspect whoever wrote it was aware of the Snopes article.

I deal only in FACTS!

Ok, I'll bite. First, do address your comments about our president not being a citizen. This is patently a false roumor: Snopes

Secondly, you are right, we were attacked first, by a FRACKING terrorist organization! Not the Afgan government and certainly not the Iraqis. Our country would be in an infinitely stronger diplomatic, security, and financial position if we tackled the problem through diplomacy, covert operations, and sanctions against countries supporting terrorist activities. Instead, we opted for a dick-wagging contest resulting in thousands of lost lives, billions of dollars expended, and our international credibility and goodwill pissed away.

I agree with you that Pelosi and Reid are idiots. Its sad that the democrats do not have better leadership in congress right now and I think it will probably cost them. However, I have heard rumblings from the right lately about Obama being a one termer. I suspect this is because he scares the shit of them because he is articulate and intelligently tackles problems. How could you possibly say worst president of all time?!?

I recently read about bottled water containers also not being refillable.

Nope.

Of course

There is an apocryphal story about how the SRB's on the Space Shuttle are directly related to the width of a horse's ass... Snopes has called the story "false" when in fact it is the case that the SRB's are limited in their size by the width of a horse's ass... The simple fact is that all technology is based on the technology that came before it. The computer industry is rife with examples... most of us are still using x86 technology is one... Why should rocketry be different?

I don't think that's true...

Quick google search yielded this:
http://www.pestproducts.com/grits.htm

and this:
http://www.fireant.net/Control/index.php

It's like that myth with rice at weddings and pidgeons...
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp

Incase you're still wondering, here's why: http://www.snopes.com/risque/kinky/panties.asp

I don't think the distinction between conscious and unconscious thought is clear enough that a number like 10% could be meaningful. Nor do I think you'd gain anything by bringing unconscious thought under conscious control.

Still, here's the link you wanted: link.

Heck, you can be smart and STILL waste all the money you earned for being smart.

Note to lazy mods: Make sure you read the paragraph before the "Barbara ... Mikkelson" line, if you don't understand WTF I'm trying to say. If you won't follow my link, go mod someone else instead.

After all, there was no investigation of the tremendous imbalance of put options on companies hurt by the disaster prior to 9/11.

Actually, it was investigated by the 9/11 commission, you just don't like the conclusion they came to. (He who does not see the conspiracy must be part of the conspiracy, right?): Snopes: Put Paid

(You know, I like a good conspiracy theory myself... but you Truthies really need to give it a rest.)

Before someone mods you up...

I know sarcasm is rough to interpret with text, but that was my angle. Now it seems someone from Mississippi is modding us troll.

Before someone mods you up...

Mississippi a leader in something. Amazing.

That's rather crude to assume they never were the leaders of something. The Mississippi Legislature removed fractions and decimal points from the curriculum in their public schools. Clearly they're a leader in the degradation of the American educational system..

I believe that's fake, or at least drawn out since the dawn of time. http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp Still amusing I guess.

    Have you read up on Dihydrogen Monoxide? Dangerous stuff! Dihydrogen Monoxide has killed more people than coal ever has! It's a component in nuclear weapons! It's even essential in coal plants and virtually every commercial form of power generation!

    There's some disinformation here.

    And finally, the real truth comes out, from the people that you can trust. They evaluated the report as TRUE! It is evil!

    And, ya, I know what it is. I'm making the point.

Gabe's recounting has an obvious problem. Why would a dude who got thrown out of college himself (a story he retells proudly) snootily inquire if someone else "even attended college"?

I recall at the time that independent accounts such as one by the organizer of the event made it sound like Gabe acted like a disrespectful asshole (and come on, isn't that about what you'd expect), and Harlan responded about like you'd expect.

In any case much like the false little fuck story, it may be a funny story but it isn't true.

The woman who the Wachowski brothers stole their script from did get paid, after she sued them.

No, actually. Her case was thrown out.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/matrix.asp

Your post reminded me of the barometer problem. I'm sure you were trying to make the same point.

I guess the mods aren't familiar with Snopes, then.

According to Snopes (and my memory - I live in Toronto where this happened) this is indeed true:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/window.asp

Snopes says that didn't really happen. But they say Alabama. I suspect it is the same urban legend over and over again.

I think Sacramento has something in the water.

It must be dihydrogen monoxide, after all it:

* is called "hydroxyl acid", the substance is the major component of acid rain.
* contributes to the "greenhouse effect".
* may cause severe burns.
* contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
* accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
* may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
* has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.

(In case you don't get it, check here.)

Under copyright law at the time it was copyrighted it would have entered the public domain in 1991. However, the Copyright Act of 1976 extended it to 75 years from the date of publication and the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 added 20 more years. It is now due to enter the public domain in 2030. http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp

almost, unfortunately.

from http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp

The Chicago-based music publisher Clayton F. Summy Company, working with Jessica Hill, published and copyrighted "Happy Birthday" in 1935. Under the laws in effect at the time, the Hills' copyright would have expired after one 28-year term and a renewal of similar length, falling into public domain by 1991. However, the Copyright Act of 1976 extended the term of copyright protection to 75 years from date of publication, and the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 added another 20 years, so under current law the copyright protection of "Happy Birthday" will remain intact until at least 2030.

True:

Allowing motorists to obtain personalized plates provides them with an opportunity to obtain something distinctively unique, something that commands far more attention than the usual humdrum string of letters and digits. Sometimes, though, one's choice of license plate can command an unexpected and undesirable form of attention.

In 1979 a Los Angeles man named Robert Barbour found this out the hard way when he sent an application to the California Department of Motor No plate Vehicles requesting personalized license plates for his car. The DMV form asked applicants to list three choices in case one or two of their desired selections had already been assigned. Barbour, a sailing enthusiast, wrote down "SAILING" and "BOATING" as his first two choices; when he couldn't think of a third option, he wrote "NO PLATE," meaning that if neither of his two choices was available, he did not want personalized plates. Plates reading "BOATING" and "SAILING" had indeed already been assigned, so the DMV, following Barbour's instructions literally, sent him license plates reading "NO PLATE." Barbour was not thrilled that the DMV had misunderstood his intent, but he opted to keep the plates because of their uniqueness.

Four weeks later he received his first notice for an overdue parking fine, from faraway San Francisco, and within days he began receiving dozens of overdue notices from all over the state on a daily basis. Why? Because when law enforcement officers ticketed illegally parked cars that bore no license plates, they had been writing "NO PLATE" in the license plate field. Now that Barbour had plates bearing that phrase, the DMV computers were matching every unpaid citation issued to a car with missing plates to
him.

Barbour received about 2,500 notices over the next several months. He alerted the DMV to the problem, and they responded in a typically bureaucratic way by instructing him to change his license plates. But Barbour had grown too fond of his plates by then to want to change them, so he instead began mailing out a form letter in response to each citation. That method usually worked, although occasionally he had to appear before a judge and demonstrate that the car described on the citation was not his.

A couple of years later, the DMV finally caught on and sent a notice to law enforcement agencies requesting that they use the word NONE rather than NO PLATE to indicate a cited vehicle was missing its plates. This change slowed the flow of overdue notices Barbour received to a trickle, about five or six a month, but it also had an unintended side effect: Officers sometimes wrote MISSING instead of NONE to indicate cars with missing license plates, and suddenly a man named Andrew Burg in Marina del Rey started receiving parking tickets from places he hadn't visited either. Burg, of course, was the owner of a car with personalized plates reading "MISSING."

Copied more than I planned, as the cockgobblers at Snopes put in some javascript to disable text selecting and right-clicking. Suckers of satan's cock, Snope.

It's kind of a joke:

http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp

First, note that Chris Kula is NOT a receptionist, but a comedic writer. You can read how the email was actually used by Cian Kelliher. The original is on Chris Kula's site.

Call it something similar to the story of the Emperior who has no clothes, but have you ever wondered when watching a commerical with a bogus product they say "We've been featured on CNN, Fox News, and Oprah"? Because they are ADVERTIZING in the commerical breaks that are on CNN, Fox News, and Oprah.

Why are we supposed to believe that just because they bought advertizing time in the commerical breaks of networks and TV shows that they were actually endorsed or had an interview featuring their product?

When was the last time you saw Oprah endorse the MagickJack or Vince Offer (the Sham-Wow guy) talk to Larry King in person? It is because it never happened.

Many networks broker their commericals through an advertising firm. Which explains why alot of shady businesses (e.g. the WorkAtHome46dotcom folks and the Obama Coin scammers) are on Television.

Had the 419 scammers been more successful, they would have had TV commericals or establish a shell business posing as a bad bank.

The best advice would be not to buy it.

http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/blackout.asp

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Okay, this is going to drive me insane. I know I've heard this quote since I was a kid (or a teen at least), so I went online to "prove" to you that that's how it originally was, with "Jim" instead of "Captain" because I was convinced that was the case. One problem: I can't find any evidence that the line or anything like it was actually ever uttered in the series.

Where does this "quote" originate from? You can find variations of it all over the web, but I can't find the source at all. I even found a site that had scripts for TOS, the animated series, and the movies, and I couldn't find any part of the line in a context that resembled the quote. Is this just one of those crazy pop-culture things were a line is attributed to someone who never said it, like now Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of Doyle's works?

Yeah cause then we'd have to read that shitty story that somebody is bound to post.

Here you go: http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp

And for completeness' sake, here's the (amusing) video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-dwDhvHE_I

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WTF about the dolphins video on Youtube?

It's dolphins playing with 'bubble rings'. It's the underwater equivalent of a smoke ring.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/dolphinrings.asp

"no va" is "doesnt go") see Chevrolet Nova for more details.

You could for example look here
http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
and discover that the whole "Nova == doesn't go" thing is an urban legend.

Apparently that old story just isn't true.

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp

It's called the Salami Technique.

You are missing the point. Yes, energy currently is cheap only in a few places such as Saudi Arabia. But energy should and could be cheap, almost free even, everywhere. The reason that is not is because of artificially induced scarcity.

A bold claim, I know, so let me substantiate it. Oil is the most glaringly obvious example of how energy is being kept scarce. Here is some fun reading you can do: what oil really is, oodles of oil in Prudhoe Bay, ditto for the Bakken Formation, Cuba, and in several other places. Not very surprising given the true oil genesis mechanism.

Of course, there are some intrinsic costs associated with oil: you need to pump it and transport it. So how can energy be almost free? Well, there are at least a dozen implemented and reproduced means to produce energy that go beyond currently accepted physical science. It is too broad a topic to address here, and it is subject to much disinformation, bullshit, and suppression. If you care to dive into it, Google "Free Energy" and click away. Good luck separating the truth from the lies.

Let's hear it for the Marsupial Insurgency and ROFLCopter simulations!