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Mikkelson snopes@snopes.com snopes@snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/logo.gif http://www.snopes.com 144 60 The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/veterans.asp Restaurant chains are offering free meals to U.S. military personnel in conjunction with Veterans Day. snopes@snopes.com Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/stossel.asp Was ABC News' 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel fired for trying to air a piece critical of health care reform? snopes@snopes.com Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/foxnews.asp What happened to the FOX News documentary on Barack Obama? snopes@snopes.com Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/biorkman.asp Noah Biorkman, a 5-year-old boy battling cancer, wants to receive Christmas cards. snopes@snopes.com Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/hr615.asp Would a House bill require members of Congress to participate in a public health care plan? snopes@snopes.com Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/solitaire.asp Photograph shows representatives playing solitaire on their laptop computers during a legislative session. snopes@snopes.com Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/medical/swineflu/astrology.asp Do influenza outbreaks of recent years correspond to Chinese astrological symbols? snopes@snopes.com Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/albinomoose.asp Photographs capture images of white-coated moose. snopes@snopes.com Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/medical/swineflu/prevent.asp E-mailed list offers tips for avoiding contracting the swine flu. snopes@snopes.com Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/jdpendry.asp Essay by J.D. Pendry criticizes foreign policy stances of Democratic politicians. snopes@snopes.com Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/fdic.asp Fraudulent e-mail purports to be an FDIC notice about accounts in failed banks. snopes@snopes.com Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/bostonmarket.asp Boston Market is offering coupons good for a $1 chicken meal. snopes@snopes.com Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/charity/komen.asp Will cellular providers donate $1 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure every time a particular text message is sent? snopes@snopes.com Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/cellphone.asp Does an Obama administration program provide free cell phones and cellular service to welfare recipients? snopes@snopes.com Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/columbiathesis.asp Did Barack Obama's thesis for Columbia University, entitled "Aristocracy Reborn," note that America's founding fathers "did not allow for economic freedom"? snopes@snopes.com Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/airbaby.asp Business rumor: Every baby born in-flight is granted free air travel by the airline for the rest of his life. snopes@snopes.com Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/holidays/halloween/haunted.asp Halloween rumor: Somewhere in the U.S. there is a haunted house attraction so scary that no one has ever finished touring it. snopes@snopes.com Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/noplate.asp Unusual personalized license plates produce a plethora of citations. snopes@snopes.com Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/risque/kinky/vodka.asp Rumor posits a new way for young women to imbibe vodka. snopes@snopes.com Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/ap.asp Did a June 2004 Associated Press article identify Barack Obama as 'Kenyan-born'? snopes@snopes.com Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/detroit.asp Photograph shows Detroit slums with downtown skyscrapers in the background? snopes@snopes.com Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/halloween.asp The lifeless bodies of suicide victims are mistaken for Halloween decorations. snopes@snopes.com Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/missing/faketext2.asp Was an Amber Alert issued for a three-year-old boy taken by a man in a 2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse? snopes@snopes.com Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/medical/swineflu/onion.asp Old folk remedy says placing peeled onions about a home will protect everyone dwelling within from flu viruses. snopes@snopes.com Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/prayer/doize.asp E-mail requests prayers for Nick Doize, a teenager battling leukemia. snopes@snopes.com Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/christmas/ornaments.asp Has the White House decreed that its 2009 Christmas trees will be referred to as 'Holiday trees' and will not display ornaments bearing religious themes? snopes@snopes.com Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/barrow.asp Did notorious criminal Clyde Barrow send a personal letter of appreciation to Henry Ford? snopes@snopes.com Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/ussnewyork.asp Update: The USS New York is on the way to its namesake city for its formal commissioning. snopes@snopes.com Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/sexuality/harveymilk.asp Update: A bill passed by the California legislature to designate May 22 as Harvey Milk Day has been signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger. snopes@snopes.com Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/halloween.asp Last year's Halloween gang initiation scare is back for a return visit. snopes@snopes.com Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/holidays/halloween/topcostumes.asp The top costume choices for Halloween 2009. snopes@snopes.com Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/photos/food/mcmemo.asp Purported memo from a McDonald's director advocates making a policy of omitting items from customers' drive-through orders. snopes@snopes.com Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/drugs.asp Do the personalities of Disney's seven dwarfs represent the seven stages of cocaine addiction? snopes@snopes.com Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/robinson.asp Did actor Edward G. Robinson personally fund the French Resistance during World War II? snopes@snopes.com Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/crime/justice/mugger.asp Letter from a putative victim apologizes to a mugger for foiling his robbery attempt. snopes@snopes.com Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/photos/whball.asp Photograph shows Barack and Michelle Obama at a White House ball? snopes@snopes.com Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/college/admin/laxative.asp College rumor claims cafeteria food is laced with laxatives. snopes@snopes.com Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/language/offense/jimmies.asp Are Jimmies, the sprinkles used on confections, so named as a reference to Jim Crow? snopes@snopes.com Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/hell.asp A student comes up with a clever proof and pithy saying in response to an exam question about the physical properties of Hell. snopes@snopes.com Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/mayoh1n1.asp E-mail supposedly reveals the Mayo Clinic's expectations for a swine flu pandemic. snopes@snopes.com Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/fraud/sales/rental.asp Scam alert: Con artists rent out properties they have no authorization to lease. snopes@snopes.com Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/mofeen.asp Pharmacist questions a prescription for 'one pound of mofeen.' snopes@snopes.com Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/socialism.asp Did Norman Thomas once say that America would eventually unknowingly adopt socialism "under the name of 'liberalism'"? snopes@snopes.com Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/glurge/bombeck.asp Did a dying Erma Bombeck pen a list of misprioritizations she'd come to regret? snopes@snopes.com Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/medical/potables/medallion.asp Rumor says an Alcoholics Anonymous member can exchange his sobriety medallion for free drinks at any bar. snopes@snopes.com Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/channel1.asp The eternal question: Why don't television sets have a Channel 1? snopes@snopes.com Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/socialsecurity/cola.asp Will Social Security recipients get no COLA increase in 2010 but pay higher Medicare premiums? snopes@snopes.com Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/shelterclosure.asp Is an animal shelter closing for good and euthanizing all its unadopted animals? snopes@snopes.com Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/pyrex.asp Warning cautions that Pyrex brand cookware can "explode" and shatter. snopes@snopes.com Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/photos/panthers.asp Photograph shows Barack Obama as a Black Panther party member? snopes@snopes.com Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/always.asp Letter to a Procter and Gamble executive complains about company's feminine pad packaging. snopes@snopes.com Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/rumors/photos/martyr.asp Photograph shows a Houston store closed on September 11 to honor an Islamic martyr. snopes@snopes.com Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/btscam.asp Warning about con artists pretending to be telephone company representatives who can shut off phone service. snopes@snopes.com Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/capitolislam.asp Muslims are planning to hold an "Islam on Capitol Hill" prayer service at the U.S. Capitol on 25 September 2009. snopes@snopes.com Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/fancheck.asp Warnings caution users about the purported "Facebook Fan Check" virus. snopes@snopes.com Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/swineflu.asp E-mailed advice about the swine flu: helpful or humorous? snopes@snopes.com Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/clunkers.asp Analysis claims the 'Cash for Clunkers' program's gasoline savings are an inefficient economic trade-off. snopes@snopes.com Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/travel/trap/congress.asp List of howlers collected by a Washington travel agent purportedly shows members of Congress to be hopelessly lost about ordinary geography. snopes@snopes.com Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/fraud/identity/census.asp Heads-up about scammers posing as U.S. Census Bureau officials. snopes@snopes.com Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/rumors/tributes/flytheflag.asp Message exhorts Americans to fly the U.S. flag on Friday, September 11, 2009. snopes@snopes.com Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT