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When you get an email which has been forwarded one thousand times and is all about something awful which is going to happen if you do not read and disseminate immediately (to wit: GANG MEMBERS ARE PLANNING TO KILL YOU PERSONALLY WHERE YOU STAND AS PART OF THEIR NEFARIOUS INITIATION PROCESS PLEASE WARN EVERYONE YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS) or else is all about something wonderful which will only happen if you read and disseminate immediately (to wit: BILL GATES WILL PAY YOU HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS IF YOU FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE), do you:
(a) Forward it immediately, as the instructions demand
(b) ignore it
(c) look it up on snopes.com (or some equivalent thereof), determine its truth or falsehood, and then ignore it
(d) look it up on snopes.com (or some equivalent thereof), determine its truth or falsehood, and then share the info by clicking Reply or Reply All
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I've been toying with a story in my head, this morning, one using Neko Case's awesomely gunslinging "Things That Scare Me" as a launching point, and this morning I looked up the lyrics and had to check ten sites before I could even begin to acknowledge that I might be hearing the last two lines wrong. Every lyric site I clicked on says that haunted by American dreams is the line, but I cannot believe this is really true! In my opinion, Miss Case sings hunted by American dreams quite clearly. In my opinion, this is not even a question! Plus, my version is better: not just for purposes of the story I'm telling, but in general. But I do not know for certain! And I must know for certain! Listen to it, why don't you, and tell me what you think.
(a) Forward it immediately, as the instructions demand
(b) ignore it
(c) look it up on snopes.com (or some equivalent thereof), determine its truth or falsehood, and then ignore it
(d) look it up on snopes.com (or some equivalent thereof), determine its truth or falsehood, and then share the info by clicking Reply or Reply All
:::
I've been toying with a story in my head, this morning, one using Neko Case's awesomely gunslinging "Things That Scare Me" as a launching point, and this morning I looked up the lyrics and had to check ten sites before I could even begin to acknowledge that I might be hearing the last two lines wrong. Every lyric site I clicked on says that haunted by American dreams is the line, but I cannot believe this is really true! In my opinion, Miss Case sings hunted by American dreams quite clearly. In my opinion, this is not even a question! Plus, my version is better: not just for purposes of the story I'm telling, but in general. But I do not know for certain! And I must know for certain! Listen to it, why don't you, and tell me what you think.
