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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (227540)	4/17/2007 6:20:31 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Please Nadine- I don't need your excuses. Anyone who looked this up on the net would have known it wasn't true- and the issue of whether it was satire or a lie is just a side issue. You didn't look it up and chose to argue with me, or you did look it up and did a poor job researching it. And I should be interested in your excuses? Now you need to make it about some other issue (excuse me "issues"). Please. spare me

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (227540)	4/17/2007 6:38:07 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The lesson we should take from this is that we need to examine critically everything we read, taking it neither at face value, automatically attacking the messenger and saying "Prove it isn't so!" when you agree with the opinion, nor as an automatic lie when you don't. When NOTHING else online confirms a story like that, then the story should be greeted with great suspicion by all, rather than a defiant challenge to "show me he didn't say that" because you don't like the politics of the person challenging it.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (227540)	4/17/2007 6:42:52 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Perhaps I might suggest a nice plate of crow for your dinner tonight, Monsieur Nadine? <g>

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (227540)	4/17/2007 8:52:48 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"did you hear about the schools in the UK that have decided to stop teaching about the Holocaust because their Muslim pupils don't believe in it?" That seemed somehow not quite right, and after I got three emails containing the contention from friends, including one that said "United Kingdom Stops Teaching Holocaust," as though it were government policy, which seemed highly unlikely, I snoped it, and they give it "mixed" true and false. (One history department in a UK school did that, snopes found.) snopes.com I'd paste it, but snopes doesn't let one paste. Anyone know how to get around that? I'm sure there is a way.