The Great Snopes Hoax

One of the people in our office sent around an e-mail about a dying child and her wisdom and how she wanted it to reach as many people as possible before she dies and -- you know this one, right? My office mate, Jessica, asked if I had checked it on Snopes.com yet and I had and so then Jessica asked if I wanted to send the reply to all or should she and . . .

And that started us thinking about what if Snopes.com were a hoax? How would that work? Perhaps all the answers they give are false, and we are not believing our friends when we should be.

Or, perhaps everything so far has been on the up and up, and one day they are going to perpetrate some mammoth hoax and because they verify it as true we will all believe it.

Which reminded me of the time I was carrying two six packs of Pepsi from the car and fell off my shoes and broke the bottles and cut my hands and arm badly on the glass. Julie had to come home from work and drive me to the ER for 19 stitches in my forearm, which left a scar which looked like a parenth ). The family joke was that either it had happened when two men were so smitten with me that they had a sword fight for my favors and I threw myself between them and got cut, or I had been protecting the kids from a bear and got . . .

Richard suggested two bears had been dueling for my favors and I threw myself between them.