From: moe@notmine.null   
      
   On 10/18/2014 7:36 PM, cpilenza@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Saturday, February 10, 1996 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, snopes wrote:   
   >> Walter Eric Johnson (wej3715@tam2000.tamu.edu) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I didn't hear it, but my younger brother did.  I came walking   
   >>> out of the bath room and he was laughing so hard at it, he   
   >>> could barely tell me what happened.   
   >>   
   >> Ah, yes -- a common folk motif for apocryphal television events:   
   >> "I didn't actually *see* it, but when I entered the room my   
   >> spouse/sibling/parent/ relative/friend was laughing at what had   
   >> just (not) happened."   
   >>   
   >> - snopes   
   >   
   > What truly scares me about snopes is that the Orwellian 1984   
   > Nightmare has begun.  I did see this as it aired and it did happen.   
   > When pedantic fools attempt to talk down to us about it being all   
   > in our imagination, be afraid people.  Why then do so many of us   
   > remember it not because someone told us but because we saw it and   
   > heard it?  I suppose I have been hypnotized by mass hysteria, is   
   > that it?  Snopes is a fool at best and a dangerous subversive of   
   > main-stream media attempting to sanitize our world by removing   
   > truth and fact from our online reality.   
   >   
   > This seems like so insignificant a thing as one measly Carson   
   > interview, but what concerns me is we are having a discussion about   
   > a reality of our lives that we lived.  Having someone attempt to   
   > post-edit it from our psyche by telling us online and definitively   
   > that it never happened truly frightens me.  What interests me more   
   > is that Snopes is attempting to be an authority about something   
   > that would give it the right to dictate our reality to us.  Who or   
   > what is Snopes to be a definitive ruling on such matters anyway?   
   >   
      
   Apparently the fact that both Carson and Gabor denied that this ever   
   happened means nothing to you.   
      
   Not to mention that the show was not run live, and anything deemed   
   inappropriate by Network Standards was edited out. If it had actually   
   happened, it never would have made it on the air.   
      
   False recollections are commonplace. Many/most people will clearly   
   remember an incident or two that never actually happened, or they will   
   'recall' enhanced details that were not part of the actual incident.   
   Don't feel bad that your memory let you down.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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