From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
   Okay, so one time? In band camp? Moe DeLoughan  was all,   
   like:   
   > 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.   
      
   I do remember it, clearly.   
      
   However, I clearly remember several other things which never happened   
   too. Memory is imperfect.   
      
   This is why "eye witness" testimony is such a problem: it is horribly   
   unreliable, but is given massive credence by the courts and by juries.   
      
   --   
   Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't   
   advise you to try to invade   
      
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