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* UL reference?Mark Shaw
+- Re: UL reference?cbusylol
`* Re: UL reference?Ray Depew
 +- paging Ed Rice, was: UL reference?danny burstein
 +* Re: UL reference?Don Freeman
 |`- Re: UL reference?Don Freeman
 `* Re: UL reference?Paul Tomblin
  `* Re: UL reference?Lee Rudolph
   `- Re: UL reference?Tim McDaniel

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Subject: UL reference?
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 by: Mark Shaw - Mon, 28 Mar 2022 23:41 UTC

What's the go-to resource for debunking ULs these days? Snopes seems
to have evolved into pure fact-checking, and I've found nothing else
useful.

Thanks-

--
Mark Shaw moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm
========================================================================
"All of my mistakes are giving me ideas." - Natalie Lileks

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Subject: Re: UL reference?
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 by: cbusylol - Mon, 4 Apr 2022 06:31 UTC

On Monday, March 28, 2022 at 5:41:54 PM UTC-6, Mark Shaw wrote:
> What's the go-to resource for debunking ULs these days? Snopes seems
> to have evolved into pure fact-checking, and I've found nothing else
> useful.
>
> Thanks-
>
> --
> Mark Shaw moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm
> ========================================================================
> "All of my mistakes are giving me ideas." - Natalie Lileks

There probably aren't a lot now that social media is a loudspeaker

And social media networks aren't exactly designed or have instruments
to find or archive much of anything that is posted- it's all now now now.

All you need is one situation / video and 200 people retweeting out of
context and bam, you have yourself a modern urban legend.

This will likely never change since the majority of those that listen don't
bother to do any sort of research, which all ULs tend to have in common
and propagate through.

Word of mouth spread is a lot less though (read: not through the keyboard)
and there's all sorts of factors into that.

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Subject: Re: UL reference?
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 by: Ray Depew - Fri, 20 Jan 2023 23:02 UTC

On Monday, March 28, 2022 at 5:41:54 PM UTC-6, Mark Shaw wrote:
> What's the go-to resource for debunking ULs these days? Snopes seems
> to have evolved into pure fact-checking, and I've found nothing else
> useful.
>
> Thanks-
>
> --
> Mark Shaw moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm
> ========================================================================
> "All of my mistakes are giving me ideas." - Natalie Lileks

Wow, they're all gone.

I just had a look at/for all of the old goto sites.

* snopes.com, as you observed, is nothing like what it used to be.
* Likewise, truthorfiction.com, while it's still there, hasn't been updated lately.
* urbanlegends.about.com no longer exists, and typing in the URL takes you to a fluff page.
* The grand old tafkac.org ("The Archive Formerly Known as Cathouse") is no more. The URL has been taken over by what looks like a business operating under the dot-org rubric instead of dot-com.
* urbanlegends.com is a page selling stuff.
* urbanlegends.org takes you to Arthur Goldstuck's UL blog, and it hasn't been updated since 2012.

All the sparkling edifices of the 1990s and 2000s are crumbling to dust.

--
Regards
Ray
"It does not do to
leave a live dragon out of
your calculations."
-- haiku by J. R. R. Tolkien

paging Ed Rice, was: UL reference?

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From: dan...@panix.com (danny burstein)
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Subject: paging Ed Rice, was: UL reference?
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 by: danny burstein - Fri, 20 Jan 2023 23:28 UTC

In <66dc740d-bc0d-4f2a-bcdf-d9fcd9664534n@googlegroups.com> Ray Depew <bishopdepew@gmail.com> writes:

>On Monday, March 28, 2022 at 5:41:54 PM UTC-6, Mark Shaw wrote:
>> What's the go-to resource for debunking ULs these days? Snopes seems
>> to have evolved into pure fact-checking, and I've found nothing else
>> useful.
>> --
>> Mark Shaw moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm
>> ========================================================================

>Wow, they're all gone.

>I just had a look at/for all of the old goto sites.

>* snopes.com, as you observed, is nothing like what it used to be.

[tales of woe snipped]

>All the sparkling edifices of the 1990s and 2000s are crumbling to dust.

Not bad. Mr. Mark's query is March, 2022. I guess we'll hear
from Ed Rice in another year or two...

His doppleganger, an author based in California (I think...)
has a bunch of books that might qualify. Or might be a
good source of laughs, depending on your point of view.

https://markshawbooks.com

--
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

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 by: Don Freeman - Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:40 UTC

On 1/20/2023 4:02 PM, Ray Depew wrote:
> On Monday, March 28, 2022 at 5:41:54 PM UTC-6, Mark Shaw wrote:
>> What's the go-to resource for debunking ULs these days? Snopes seems
>> to have evolved into pure fact-checking, and I've found nothing else
>> useful.
>>
>> Thanks-
>>
>> --
>> Mark Shaw moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm
>> ========================================================================
>> "All of my mistakes are giving me ideas." - Natalie Lileks
>
> Wow, they're all gone.
>
> I just had a look at/for all of the old goto sites.
>
> * snopes.com, as you observed, is nothing like what it used to be.
> * Likewise, truthorfiction.com, while it's still there, hasn't been updated lately.
> * urbanlegends.about.com no longer exists, and typing in the URL takes you to a fluff page.
> * The grand old tafkac.org ("The Archive Formerly Known as Cathouse") is no more. The URL has been taken over by what looks like a business operating under the dot-org rubric instead of dot-com.
> * urbanlegends.com is a page selling stuff.
> * urbanlegends.org takes you to Arthur Goldstuck's UL blog, and it hasn't been updated since 2012.
>
> All the sparkling edifices of the 1990s and 2000s are crumbling to dust.
>

There the subreddit r/UrbanMyths though it does seem to be mainly
recounting ghost stories.

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 by: Don Freeman - Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:46 UTC

On 1/25/2023 12:40 PM, Don Freeman wrote:

>
> There the subreddit r/UrbanMyths though it does seem to be mainly
> recounting ghost stories.
>

There is also r/UrbanLegends but it is the same as the one above.

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 by: Paul Tomblin - Tue, 31 Jan 2023 18:20 UTC

In a previous article, Ray Depew <bishopdepew@gmail.com> said:
>All the sparkling edifices of the 1990s and 2000s are crumbling to dust.

As are those of us who created them.

--
Paul Tomblin <ptomblin@xcski.com> http://blog.xcski.com/
God is real, unless declared as an integer.

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 by: Lee Rudolph - Mon, 20 Feb 2023 02:16 UTC

On Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 1:20:53 PM UTC-5, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> In a previous article, Ray Depew <bisho...@gmail.com> said:
> >All the sparkling edifices of the 1990s and 2000s are crumbling to dust.
> As are those of us who created them.

Speak for yourself. I am crumbling to ashes.

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 by: Tim McDaniel - Sun, 26 Feb 2023 21:34 UTC

In article <33517428-54e5-49b9-8c03-1df97ddbec41n@googlegroups.com>,
Lee Rudolph <lrudolph381@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 1:20:53 PM UTC-5, Paul Tomblin wrote:
>> In a previous article, Ray Depew <bisho...@gmail.com> said:
>> >All the sparkling edifices of the 1990s and 2000s are crumbling to dust.
>> As are those of us who created them.
>
>Speak for yourself. I am crumbling to ashes.

Power Off options: please choose one.

[ ] Ashes to ashes
[ ] Funk to funky
[ ] Dust to dust
[ ] All flesh is grass
[ ] A spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire
[ ] Other (please detail in 16 characters or fewer)

--
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com

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