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- 10goto10, on 10/25/2008, -1/+107Remember the "All Content Can Fit On One Page"-hoax? Glad to see informationweek.com didn't fall for that one!
- sentinel106, on 10/25/2008, -0/+24What about Dihydrogen Monoxide?
Now that was some dangerous stuff! - AlanFang, on 10/25/2008, -0/+15Can someone explain to me why they have that stupid picture of fake nose/glasses on every single page of the article? Better yet why they even have more than a one page article?
- uncertainty, on 10/25/2008, -0/+15No Bonsai Kitten? That was my favorite one back in the day.
edit: I think the original site is down now. But for those of you who don't know, here's a mirror... http://www.shorty.com/bonsaikitten/index.html - skunkman62, on 10/25/2008, -0/+12this article is a hoax.
- lazyrussian, on 10/25/2008, -0/+11I still get that spam letter every so often. I can't believe it's still in circulation.
- pooljoe, on 10/25/2008, -0/+10***** i hope its not too late for me to forward this to my contact list.
- Charklii, on 10/25/2008, -0/+9Ah! Thank you! Bonzai Kitten is one hoax I actually did fall for! And having been reminded of that, it makes me wonder why this article is on the front page at all. o_O
- Stickeh, on 10/25/2008, -0/+9You dont look very first to me.
- gamche, on 10/25/2008, -1/+9All on one page. http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArt ...
- sockpuppets, on 10/25/2008, -0/+8They missed bonsai kittens:
http://zealcorp.com/bonsaikitten/ - inactive, on 10/25/2008, -1/+8my personal fav, ahh weren't the 90s wonderful? i remember so many people actually believed this.
Subject: FW: PLEEEEEASE READ!!!! It was on the news!
Dear friends,
Something to share with all of u. Would u believe if this is true? Read on..... For those who need money badly and this is one opportunity to try it! I'm an attorney, and I know the law. This thing is for real. Rest assured AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises for fear of facing a multimillion-dollar class action suit similar to the one filed by PepsiCo against General Electric not too long ago.
Dear Friends,
Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates is sharing his fortune. If you ignore this you will repent later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test. When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period. For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $245.00, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $241.00. Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a cheque.
Regards.
Charles S. Bailey
General Manager Field Operations
[CONTACT DETAILS REMOVED]
I thought this was a scam myself, but two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on, Microsoft contacted me for my address and within days, I received a cheque for US$24,800.00. You need to respond before the beta testing is over. If anyone can afford this Bill Gates is the man. It's all marketing expense to him. Please forward this to as many people as possible. You are bound to get at least US$10,000.00.
We're not going to help them out with their e-mail beta test without getting a little something for our time. My brother's girlfriend got in on this a few months ago. When I went to visit him for the Baylor/UT game. She showed me her check. It was for the sum of $4,324.44 and was stamped "Paid In Full".
Like I said before, I know the law, and this is for real Intel and AOL are now discussing a merger which would make them the largest Internet company and in an effort make sure that AOL remains the most widely used program, Intel and AOL are running an e-mail beta test. - dekuscrub, on 10/25/2008, -0/+6I am still amazed how many people fall for these on a regular basis.
- uncertainty, on 10/25/2008, -3/+9http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArt ...
- oo7evan, on 10/25/2008, -0/+6internet rumors < snopes.
thank you snopes. - inactive, on 10/25/2008, -0/+6You mean, everything Rick Astley said is a lie? That bastard!
- inactive, on 10/25/2008, -2/+7so diggers not getting laid was a total hoax, thank god
- rationalist, on 10/26/2008, -0/+5"Even you, a savvy veteran e-mail user, have fallen for one or more of these Internet rumors. Or, even if you weren't quite sure of the veracity of a particular story or photograph, you e-mailed it to your friends to amuse/warn them, or to see what they thought. "
Um, no. But as long as publications like Information Week hire jackasses who obviously do fit that self-description, and assume the rest of the world are just like them, the rest of us will have to suffer their stupid chain email. - charm803, on 10/25/2008, -1/+5lol @ butt spiders.
- aywwts4, on 10/26/2008, -0/+4Bonzai Kitten was the best because of the number of people who were genuinely outraged, started petitions, hounded the creators to try and take their hosts offline (successfully numerous times) and spawned an FBI investigation.
The mark of a great hoax is not just an audacious claim, its the reaction of the public who believe the hoax. Compare the reaction people would have to a very large, poorly photoshopped cat over a cute kitten shoved into a jar with a shoehorn, it's anus glued shut with superglue, and tubes installed to feed and remove the waste, while the kitten is fed a calcium softening agent to mold the skull and bones, all described with a great amount of innocent naive excitement! - bobbi21, on 10/25/2008, -0/+4http://www.xkcd.com/250/
But seriously snopes is great. - Mononuclear, on 10/25/2008, -0/+4I get a couple chain mails from people a week. The first place I go is snopes and I just reply back with "This is not true ". I have been doing it for awhile and the number of chain mails I get is going down so It must be working. Either people are so stupid and realize they are fake, they are tired of me pointing out they are wrong, or they just deleted me from their contact list.
- inactive, on 10/25/2008, -1/+4Y2K
Even though it wasn't 100% internet... - je12u, on 10/26/2008, -0/+3meme, not hoax
- roxgod666, on 10/25/2008, -0/+3I don't know, snowball the mutant cat really had me going for a second.
http://z.about.com/d/urbanlegends/1/7/K/r/CRASH.JP ... - hurtmetomysoul, on 10/25/2008, -0/+3WTF...no Walken for President?!
http://www.walken2008.com - moriarty23, on 10/25/2008, -2/+4After reading that, all I could think was "Hmm...ban...ALL.. religious programing? That just might work!" Then it kinda dawned on me that this might be some kind of freedom of speech issue, so I think the christies should be able to watch whatever they want on the television, so long as I can get hardcore fraggle porn pumped into my domicile, and they can keep wearing religious paraphernalia in public if I can walk around with my dick hanging out.
- themastersb, on 10/26/2008, -0/+2I just got the "Bill Gates' Millions Giveaway" hoax last week for the first time. It must have had OVER 9000 FW: and RE: on it
- FatLoser, on 10/25/2008, -2/+4your mother is a hoax.
- ligyron, on 10/25/2008, -0/+2Interesting. Back when that snowball picture was first circulating, it looked really real to me and I didn't question it. Now looking at the picture 8 years later, I can clearly see it's photoshopped, especially by looking at the belly
- MeatPlow, on 10/27/2008, -0/+2It was a good try...making a whitty political comment. But, just admit it, you don't know ***** about it. Am I right?
- Drehmini, on 10/25/2008, -0/+2What happened to eon8?
http://www.eon8.com/ - itsatrapadbar, on 10/26/2008, -1/+3you mean water?
- CATSCEO2, on 10/25/2008, -0/+2Never meant nothing!
- inactive, on 10/25/2008, -0/+2Remember Sokal? That was a good hoax.
- onestrawplz, on 10/26/2008, -0/+1in reference to this: http://www.dhmo.org/
- Spem, on 10/26/2008, -1/+2Hi guys,
A friend of mine is in dire need of a bone marrow transplant. He is on the waiting list for a transplant, but even when he reaches the top of the list he will not have the money to perform the operation. However, the American Bone Marrow Transplant Association of America (ABMTAA) is willing to donate $10 for every digg this story gets. So please forward this story to your friends, and help save a life.
~Spem - internetcoward, on 10/27/2008, -0/+1sooo dumb.
- Spem, on 10/26/2008, -0/+1I guess your sense of humor has already died. Or did you not read the article? BURIED!
- james155, on 10/26/2008, -0/+1NOT
- stuffradio, on 10/25/2008, -0/+1I got that spam once from this girl I know... I lol'ed in my head in disbelief that she would fall for it =]
- shame126, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1If you think its a hoax *wink*
- inactive, on 10/26/2008, -0/+1it's a tra... I mean hoax!
- britoca, on 10/26/2008, -0/+1I block A LOT of these at my job.
- jamesgott, on 10/25/2008, -2/+3no mention of christopher walken for president?
http://www.walken2008.com/
edit: DAMNIT, b10 - aurorous, on 10/26/2008, -0/+1List is worthless without John Titor
- Betrayal, on 10/26/2008, -0/+1MORANS
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