It's been my experience that Snopes is a highly useful resource due to this phenomenon of so much informtion being out there that a lot of it can't be true.

Even at work some credulous folk have circulated rumors as fact and it has been interesting to see who simply relays info and who gives it some thought before implicitly endorsing it by forwarding it to all and sundry.

One of the executive secretaries and I shared the habit of waiting a bit to check out these rumors. We had nothing else in common other than the desire to not be relay to junkmail.

I've noticed a lot of people here with that careful attitude. They take care with how they express themselves, they are responsible enough to identify themselves so they can be personally addressed, and they can smell out artificial tales.

Who can object to being corrected when they are harboring falsehoods?

oh, yeah, I guess there are some GUESTS........