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   Dutchboy1 said, 5 months ago

   Of course, Big Foot shows up. Doesn’t he always.

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   SaintRCat said, 5 months ago

   I prefer the Loch Ness Monster. Hairy beasts are a dime a dozen. Long-necked aquatic lizards are where its at.

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   baslim_the_begger said, 5 months ago

   Good one Wiley! As promised, you came through on the internet hoax…

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   Vote said, 5 months ago

   But of course, Mars will be (relatively) close in August. That wasn’t the hoax part.

   Oh, well.

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   madKanga said, 5 months ago

   Cute one, Wiley - score one for you!

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   ARF2 said, 5 months ago

   NO! Mar will NOT be close in August. The next opposition will be in January, 2010.

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   Hugh B. Hayve said, 5 months ago

   geez Danae doesn’t know how to find snopes.com?

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   Desultourist said, 5 months ago

   THAT’S WHAT I SAID!!

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   jelzap said, 5 months ago

   NEVER TRUST WIKIPEDIA (thts wat my teachers alway said)…

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    prasrinivara said, 5 months ago

    Well jelzap, I’ve made quite a few corrections to wiki articles–so I’m chiming that your teachers’ statements are on the nail!

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    pima0101 said, 5 months ago

    ARF2, where did you get your information - the internet

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    Hookoa said, 5 months ago

    Good One, Wiley. That email about Mars comes around every year, now, since it actually happened in 2003. People come up to me and tell me about it. They are stunned when I break the sad news to them that they missed it by several years.

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    Sternvogel said, 5 months ago

    Even if Danae knows how to find snopes.com, that doesn’t necessarily mean she’s incapable of being fooled by that site:

    http://www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp

14. 

    yyyguy said, 5 months ago

    ROFTL

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    CliffG.I.Woes said, 5 months ago

    What else will they give us?
    More wisdom from Washington D.C.?

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    ProfessorKid said, 5 months ago

    It’s all fun & games until Bigfoot shows up…

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    bmonk said, 5 months ago

    Simple: trust nothing from the Internet that you wouldn’t trust from the mouth of a total stranger.

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    nighthawks said, 5 months ago

    this is what I learned on the internet:
    the ‘69 moon landings were faked

    we have been to the moon lots of times since and have bases there

    the earth is actually hollow and there are beings living in there

    we already know about mars and its past civilizations

    the 911 events were all self inflicted by robot planes after the real planes landed somewhere and everybody was “liquidated”
    sure, I believe everything on the internet, it wouldnt be there if it wasnt true!

19. 

    grazer said, 5 months ago

    Wonder if Einstein had the comics in mind when he said
    ”Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

    ……………

    Love it when Danae spits bones.

20. 

    dar1 said, 5 months ago

    It just goes to show you you can’t believe every thing you hear or read.

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    Nelly55 said, 5 months ago

    Hookoa,

    the email about Mars is a complete hoax. Yes, the red planet was very close “visually” and relative to the earth a couple years ago, but it will NEVER be so close that it’s appears as big as the moon. We’d be in deep doo doo if that ever happened.

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    Dracip said, 5 months ago

    Nothing should be referenced if it isn’t a peer reviewed article in a reputable journal about the subject. Even newspapers are suspect.. Now, that being said, (sorry Lamont! ) something like wikipedia can be trusted to tell you the basics about a subject, saymoons, so it can give you quick knowledge of the subject. Just don’t reference it and watch out for incorrect details. I would suggest World Book as a rule, but they makes mistakes, too. BTW if the moon actually looked as large as the moon, I wouldn’t sweat the whole global warning scenario…

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    stonehenge1951 said, 5 months ago

    Nelly- You say that now, but wait 3 1/2 BILLION years! Any of the four interior planets could collide due to orbital chaos. The odds are 2500 to 1. If it happens we can blame that little stinker Mercury. Mercury could go into resonance with Jupiter and the solar pinball game would begin. Then again, it might not and 1.5 billion years after that the sun swells into a red giant and swallows up all four planets anyway.

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    Khard12 said, 5 months ago

    Wait, wait, wait. If the martians gave us the internet, does that mean Al Gore talks to martians, or is Al Gore a martian?
    Might explain some things…

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    pookid54 said, 5 months ago

    Al Gore is a planet

    Wiley, thank you for all this fun!

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    artybee said, 5 months ago

    Well, I heard on the Internet that Snopes is just a couple of people who appointed themselves as experts and that you can’t trust what they say is true any more than you can anything else on the Internet, like Wikipedia. (Ow, my head hurts.)

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    jamadison4 said, 5 months ago

    ,
    If everything on the INTERNET is “suspect”; If OFFICIAL Scientific Pronouncements are “unsound”, If the LATE SHOW Prologue is “MisInformation”……….then all Opposites are Correctosites.

    The world is SPINNING, I can’t breathe, the Horizonial and Vertical are all swiggling…………Civilization as we have known it,; is a sick Wiley Miller joke.

    “Mother……..where is the ALKA SELTZER ??????????”

    ,

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    dizzydog3894 said, 5 months ago

    the internet is stupid in my opinion cuz i could make a site that says the sky is green and someone out there would believe me.

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    GuntotingLiberal said, 5 months ago

    And you can’t trust the news either. Or politicians. Or lawyers. Or economists, or the supreme court, or doctors or the FDA. Maybe Chris Carter was on to something with the “Trust No One” theme.

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    Dracip said, 5 months ago

    I don’t trust what I just typed. Or this either.

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    Zoned said, 5 months ago

    …so then they live in the Great Northwest???

32. 

    Dracip said, 5 months ago

    No, not necessarily , Zoned, We have we have big foots here in Michigan too. We even have a short hunting season to cull the herd….

33. 

    Zoned said, 5 months ago

    …how much does it cost for a tag?

34. 

    wndrwrthg said, 5 months ago

    What’s so great about the Northwest?

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    dtut said, 5 months ago

    pookid54 said,
    Al Gore is a planet

    Not quite. A star in the constellation Perseus. Whoops, that’s Algor!

    And, to prove other comments about the Internet, there really is a site that says that. But it’s Algol, not Algor. BTW, Wikipedia got that one right.

    I learned back in the ’80s that anything on the Internet is just about as reliable as lunch table conversation – and has to be rated just as carefully against who said it and who agreed. And peer-reviewed journals are only better in that those who agreed have some credentials, not because they are infallible. (Hey, I know. I have refereed journal papers.)

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    jelindley said, 5 months ago

    Does this mean Al Gore is a Martian?