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?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)