ETA: Oh yeah, forgot about my results. I got 7/10... not great, but better than I would have got, had I not been familiar with some of them through Snopes already.
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Lots of fun. I got a 7/10. Too bad some of the ones I thought were false were true!
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9/10 I'm disappointed in myself! I got Q 1 wrong!
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I didn't realize the "unsolvable math problem" was a true story. Guess I have to catch up on my snopes readings.
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8/10, I got the first two wrong. The first because I just couldn't believe it, I mean Ketchup ?? And the second was probably wishful thinking as I often had the same poblem with tardy teachers, to leave or not to leave, the eternal dilemma.
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I missed the last two and the one about 'brothel laws'.
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I hereby withdraw my membership as a snopester...
I got 4/10. oh. my. god...
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I didn't realize the "unsolvable math problem" was a true story. Guess I have to catch up on my snopes readings.
I got 8/10 too, and I also missed that one. Plus the Stanford one -- I should have known better.
Didn't have any trouble for the "ketchup as a vegetable" question. I remember that one.
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9/10 because I missed the ketchup question. My smiley is drinking it now.
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quote:Originally posted by Malruhn: I hereby withdraw my membership as a snopester...
I got 4/10. oh. my. god...
I got a 6/10. It just means we have to be more thorough in snoping... er... snopestering... uhm... whatever.
I'm a snopester... I read Snopes.com.. What is the verb, dagnabbit?
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I got 9/10! I didn't know about the ketchup thing....thought nobody would be stupid enough to try it...but when it comes to the Reagan administration, well any stupidity is possible. Ketchup a vegetable ...really ....snort.... giggle ....chortle.
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10/10. Considering what I do for a living, I'd darn well better get them all right!
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7/10 I guessed on #1, got 5 & 9 wrong...I thought I read the page about #9 (grr). I also agree snopes was a big help
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7/10, I only got #1 right because Tim Allen mentioned it in his book hehe.
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Ten right! Defining ketchup as a vegetable doesn't seem so dumb to me, because heck, it's made out of tomatoes, and those are a kind of veggie/fruit. Shall we say that mashed potatoes aren't veggies because they're mashed up, but baked ones are? (Yeah, so there's various things in ketchup, but it's still got tomatoes in it)
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