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Old 27 December 2006, 05:20 AM
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Dog What part of *false* wasn't clear to you?

Comment: i read the article about the missing day that scientest lately discovered. there problem still that they are unable to decide the exact time when the sun stopped. firstly i am not christian but i would really help if possible!! please tell the scientest who is working on this miracle that the if this event really happened then there is a great possiblity that it happened around 40 years after the death of the prophet Moses. just ask them to check and they will never lose anything.
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Old 29 December 2006, 07:06 AM
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Comment: The Irani yellow badge law for Jews and Christians proves that
Persians are just as stupid as arabs.

So what is the big surprise? When the Taliban was in power, they made the
Hindu's wear yellow armbands and everyone knows how sub-human the taliban
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Old 29 December 2006, 07:14 AM
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Comment: In a response about Target Stores not doing this and that, it was
also stated Target was owned by a Company in France. Snopes says "False",
only a small bit of ownership by a company in France.

I was recently at a Grant Ceremony with Target employees and management,
and they "Touted" themselves as being "French Owned". They were the ones
to reveal it to me. I was quite shocked they were owned by a company in
France. I had never heard that until their own people said it.

Do you think the percentage has changed since you said "False" ? The
employees sure seemd confident they were owned by a company in France.
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Old 19 January 2007, 07:44 AM
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Comment: I love the opportunity to go to your site and find out what is
true and what isn't.. But I am curious about the Barack Obama email that
is going around.. You say it is "false", but it is confusing when you
read it.. Is it true or false?? Please help!!
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Old 19 January 2007, 11:08 AM
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You say it is "false", but it is confusing when you read it.. Is it true or false?? Please help!!
Dear snopes,

Your site is hard to read. Could you please try to use words with just one syllb... syblla...

Short words?
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Old 20 January 2007, 01:39 AM
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Comment: Your statement that Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim is
scurrilous. He's no more a Muslim than you are, or I am,and I
certainly am not. This guy goes to Church. Ya'll must be as
ignorant as Flem Snopes in Wm. Faulkner's novels. Either get
that claim off of your web page or e-mail me the proof.
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Comment: About your listing, "Black in the white house"....... To me it
is still unclear as to whether it is a real danger or just a rumor. The
word hoax is in the statement, BUT..... Please spell it out in no
uncertain terms..... either: Yes, this is a real virus danger OR: No,
this is only a hoax.
Thanx for clarifying your language.
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Old 17 October 2010, 11:02 PM
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Comment: I read the article re:ALCU removing military cemetary crosses and
still don't understand - is it a rumor or is it true? I felt the
explanation was "beating around the bush", so speak, in the paragraph
referring to this particular question. It mentioned "individual
gravestones" but not the crosses displayed in military cemetaries. Thanks
for your help. Frankly, I don't believe it is true, but when I receive
the email from persons supposedly "in the know" I question it and try to
stop false info on any important subject.
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Old 20 October 2010, 04:49 PM
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Comment: I would LOVE to find out who submitted the Teddy Bear in the
clouds image. I am here to tell you, that my deceased boss, Rodney Owens,
through tears and my begging him to make me laugh on a trip to Oklahoma on
Highway 44 in 2003 resulted in the EXACT same Teddy Bear in the clouds. I
wasn't in France. I was on an Oklahoma highway. I am telling you this
picture is NOT false. It's true if it was taken in Oklahoma in 2003.
Please help me!
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Old 29 October 2010, 04:32 PM
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Comment: What about the Two-Striped Telamonia spider story? Your site
reprints the story, but there's no comment regarding its authenticity or
lack thereof.

Too new to be researched yet?
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Old 02 November 2010, 01:29 AM
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Comment: I just read the 'rumor' about obama's comments on getting service
personell to pay for their own insurance which you labelled "mostly False"

I f you had read your own article I think you would agree that it comment
should have been "Mostly True".

He said it. They put it out on the street to see which way the wind was
blowing. And then they recinded and buried it.
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Old 26 March 2011, 01:43 AM
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Comment: Rumor: Obama cancelled national day of prayer ceremony at the
white house...true or false. Your site says false and directs me to a
vanilla descussion of the national day of prayer... are you independent,
or a mouthpiece for the liberal agenda. Please answer my question: Did
Obama cnacel the national day of prayer ceremony at the white house ...
yes or no...
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Comment: I am just saying that you seem to say all articles are false and
I am not sure if you are saying the whole comment on this article or the
award part. ?
Where do you get your story and for sure know any are false ???
This is a awesome story and I think the way the world is WE all need
stories like this.... to much sick and horror is told and we do know that
is so true... I really don't follow your site but a friend of mine does
and each time I send something to help his day , I get this kind of stuff
back and really sick of it. So start to really put more effort on what you
say out there and move on to the sick stories and say they are FALSE
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Comment: Help! Help! I am new to Snopes. I just looked up the Johns
Hopkins alternative to chemotherapy. From what is posted there, I can't
tell if the article is true or not. How do I find out?
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Old 05 September 2011, 05:48 PM
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Comment: Accordding to Bible Eagle renew their strengh. if rebirth of an
eagle is not true. how do eagles renew their strengh?
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Old 05 September 2011, 11:25 PM
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Old 03 December 2012, 06:22 AM
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Comment: The origin of the candy cane.
Please check your history. You make christianity look like a corrupt,
deceitful religion when you make the false claim that an Indiana man
invented the candy cane. It does have Christian origins, but get your
facts straight. This is embarrassing. Christians all over are copying
this garbage and passing it on as fact.
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You got one thing right, dear e-mailer.

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This is embarrassing.
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Old 03 December 2012, 09:44 PM
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Comment: I am so sorry. I am a dope. My kids had received a printed
copy of this urban myth from a friend and I was trying to figure out where
it came from. I didn't realize the purpose of your site was to dispel
these types of myth - I thought you were trying to perpetuate it. I read
the green box and the first few paragraphs and did not read all the way
down. Just so you know, people out there are taking the green box and
printing the myth as is, and passing it along. Perhaps you could make the
"False" statement a little more obvious so that we are not confused.
Thanks for setting me straight!
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Perhaps you could make the "False" statement a little more obvious so that we are not confused
A little more obvious than bold, in italics, and bright red?

What do you need? Sirens? Flashing multicoloured lights? An animation that stamps one of those circles with the cross-bar on top of the example?

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