View some supposedly
real
comments made on government forms by mothers.
(21 March 2000)
The story about a ghostly
television transmission involving a broadcast from Houston being picked up
by TVs in England three years after the Houston station went off the air.
(8 March 2000)http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/klee.htm
After the beleaguered lead
guitarist of a band responds to heckling by asking if anyone in the audience
thinks he can do better, Eric Clapton steps onto the stage and shows him up.
(20 February 2000)http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/clapton2.htm
Back in Circulation
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The usual "free stuff from from a corporate giant!" leg-pull has
some new
victims this month -- Coca-Cola and Nokia. No, there are no free cases
of
Coke or wireless Nokia phones to be had for forwarding yet another
"something for nothing" e-mail.
For the ever-expanding history of this craziness plus debunkings of same
(including these latest chapters), see:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/billgate.htm
The National
Endowment for
the Arts (NEA) petition is back again.
Though this time around all references to Sesame Street have been omitted,
it's otherwise pretty much the same text as it was in 1995.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/nea.htm
Urban
Legends