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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
who believes these things?
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unfortuantely too many people and from surprising backgrounds... my best friend's wife, college educated, bright, used to email me practically every inter-net rumour, hoax etc etc that ever darkened her mail box. I patiently sourced it out, usually at Snopes and would send her the link. it never made any difference. finally one time I was on an archaeological dig in New Mexico, and getting my email once every 3 days or so on a painfully slow dial up connection, she sent me a letter, the heading was; "important for you to know on your dig!" and it was full of the most incredible BS you could imagine! I finally told her; "look, I appreciate hearing from you about your family, personal accomplishments and so on, but please do not send me any more of that tripe unless you have personally checked it out yourself." that was 7 years ago. the only email I have gotten from her since was what I was supposed to bring for Thanksgiving 3 years ago when I was in Virginia.