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#1 Post by Bob Juch » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:45 pm

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According to Snopes.
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#2 Post by ne1410s » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:46 pm

You mean your avatar?
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#3 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:46 pm

It may not be real, but it sure made me laugh.
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#4 Post by ne1410s » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:47 pm

me:
You mean your avatar?
Nevermind. It just now came through.
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#5 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:48 pm

So, are you saying that the kitten doesn't have a happee.
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#6 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:48 pm

All I can see is a big green nasty unhappy face.
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#7 Post by Bob Juch » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:49 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:So, are you saying that the kitten doesn't have a happee.
Not today! He's having multiple Blue Screens of Death. :x
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#8 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:50 pm

The bikini fauxtograph disappeared.
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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#9 Post by Bob Juch » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:51 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:All I can see is a big green nasty unhappy face.
That's strange. I had the same until I refreshed my page.
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#10 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:51 pm

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/g ... ingun1.jpg
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#11 Post by ne1410s » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:52 pm

tmtss:
The bikini fauxtograph disappeared.
All I gotz is a green thing sticking its tongue out.
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#12 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:53 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:All I can see is a big green nasty unhappy face.
Refresh the page and you might get the picture of Gov. Palin supposedly in a bikini and toting a rifle.
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#13 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:53 pm

this is also a fake photo

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Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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#14 Post by ne1410s » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:54 pm

snopes must have taken it down.
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#15 Post by sunflower » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:56 pm

Yeah I just see the green face, even when I hit refresh.
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#16 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:59 pm

sunflower wrote:Yeah I just see the green face, even when I hit refresh.
Click on this link:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/g ... ingun1.jpg
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#17 Post by sunflower » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:01 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
sunflower wrote:Yeah I just see the green face, even when I hit refresh.
Click on this link:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/g ... ingun1.jpg
Yeah, I clicked on that above and same thing - green face!
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#18 Post by ne1410s » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:03 pm

me:
snopes must have taken it down.
And BTW, good for snopes.
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#19 Post by peacock2121 » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:03 pm

I think it is funny that it got replaced with a green face - especially the tongue thing.
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