RE: Snopes . com
December 10, 2011 at 10:43 pm
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2011 at 10:44 pm by Cyberman.)
Facebook is a strange animal indeed. It purports to be almost the model of social networking, yet try to make it do something its programmers don't want you to and you've had it. Your best bet perhaps is to post an edited form of the link, viz:
http://www . snopes [dot] com/holidays/christmas/candycane.asp
or something similar. You might have to play with it to see what works (then afterwards you can post the link).
As for the candy cane story itself, I'm long past the point where I would have been surprised. There's a hell of a load of shit gets posted on Facebook; it's become the central sorting office for stupid rumours. I'm signed up to a FB page called HoaxSlayer ("Debunking email hoaxes and exposing Internet scams since 2003!") and there's nary a day goes by without at least half a dozen posts from them.
http://www . snopes [dot] com/holidays/christmas/candycane.asp
or something similar. You might have to play with it to see what works (then afterwards you can post the link).
As for the candy cane story itself, I'm long past the point where I would have been surprised. There's a hell of a load of shit gets posted on Facebook; it's become the central sorting office for stupid rumours. I'm signed up to a FB page called HoaxSlayer ("Debunking email hoaxes and exposing Internet scams since 2003!") and there's nary a day goes by without at least half a dozen posts from them.
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