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What's the go-to resource for debunking ULs these days? Snopes seems
to have evolved into pure fact-checking, and I've found nothing else
useful.

Thanks-
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On Monday, March 28, 2022 at 5:41:54 PM UTC-6, Mark Shaw wrote:

What's the go-to resource for debunking ULs these days? Snopes seems
to have evolved into pure fact-checking, and I've found nothing else
useful.

Thanks-

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Mark Shaw moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm ======================================================================== "All of my mistakes are giving me ideas." - Natalie Lileks

There probably aren't a lot now that social media is a loudspeaker

And social media networks aren't exactly designed or have instruments
to find or archive much of anything that is posted- it's all now now now.

All you need is one situation / video and 200 people retweeting out of
context and bam, you have yourself a modern urban legend.

This will likely never change since the majority of those that listen don't bother to do any sort of research, which all ULs tend to have in common
and propagate through.

Word of mouth spread is a lot less though (read: not through the keyboard)
and there's all sorts of factors into that.

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On Monday, March 28, 2022 at 5:41:54 PM UTC-6, Mark Shaw wrote:

What's the go-to resource for debunking ULs these days? Snopes seems
to have evolved into pure fact-checking, and I've found nothing else
useful.

Thanks-

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Mark Shaw moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm ======================================================================== "All of my mistakes are giving me ideas." - Natalie Lileks

Wow, they're all gone.

I just had a look at/for all of the old goto sites.

* snopes.com, as you observed, is nothing like what it used to be.
* Likewise, truthorfiction.com, while it's still there, hasn't been updated lately.
* urbanlegends.about.com no longer exists, and typing in the URL takes you to a fluff page.
* The grand old tafkac.org ("The Archive Formerly Known as Cathouse") is no more. The URL has been taken over by what looks like a business operating under the dot-org rubric instead of dot-com.
* urbanlegends.com is a page selling stuff.
* urbanlegends.org takes you to Arthur Goldstuck's UL blog, and it hasn't been updated since 2012.

All the sparkling edifices of the 1990s and 2000s are crumbling to dust.

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Ray
"It does not do to
leave a live dragon out of
your calculations."
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In <66dc740d-bc0d-4f2a-bcdf-d9fcd9664534n@googlegroups.com> Ray Depew <bishopdepew@gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, March 28, 2022 at 5:41:54 PM UTC-6, Mark Shaw wrote:

What's the go-to resource for debunking ULs these days? Snopes seems
to have evolved into pure fact-checking, and I've found nothing else
useful.
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Mark Shaw moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm
========================================================================

Wow, they're all gone.

I just had a look at/for all of the old goto sites.

* snopes.com, as you observed, is nothing like what it used to be.

[tales of woe snipped]

All the sparkling edifices of the 1990s and 2000s are crumbling to dust.

Not bad. Mr. Mark's query is March, 2022. I guess we'll hear
from Ed Rice in another year or two...

His doppleganger, an author based in California (I think...)
has a bunch of books that might qualify. Or might be a
good source of laughs, depending on your point of view.

https://markshawbooks.com
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On 1/20/2023 4:02 PM, Ray Depew wrote:

On Monday, March 28, 2022 at 5:41:54 PM UTC-6, Mark Shaw wrote:

What's the go-to resource for debunking ULs these days? Snopes seems
to have evolved into pure fact-checking, and I've found nothing else
useful.

Thanks-

--
Mark Shaw moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm
========================================================================
"All of my mistakes are giving me ideas." - Natalie Lileks

Wow, they're all gone.

I just had a look at/for all of the old goto sites.

* snopes.com, as you observed, is nothing like what it used to be.
* Likewise, truthorfiction.com, while it's still there, hasn't been updated lately.
* urbanlegends.about.com no longer exists, and typing in the URL takes you to a fluff page.
* The grand old tafkac.org ("The Archive Formerly Known as Cathouse") is no more. The URL has been taken over by what looks like a business operating under the dot-org rubric instead of dot-com.
* urbanlegends.com is a page selling stuff.
* urbanlegends.org takes you to Arthur Goldstuck's UL blog, and it hasn't been updated since 2012.

All the sparkling edifices of the 1990s and 2000s are crumbling to dust.

There the subreddit r/UrbanMyths though it does seem to be mainly
recounting ghost stories.

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On 1/25/2023 12:40 PM, Don Freeman wrote:

There the subreddit r/UrbanMyths though it does seem to be mainly
recounting ghost stories.

There is also r/UrbanLegends but it is the same as the one above.
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In a previous article, Ray Depew <bishopdepew@gmail.com> said:

All the sparkling edifices of the 1990s and 2000s are crumbling to dust.

As are those of us who created them.
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Paul Tomblin <ptomblin@xcski.com> http://blog.xcski.com/
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On Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 1:20:53 PM UTC-5, Paul Tomblin wrote:

In a previous article, Ray Depew <bisho...@gmail.com> said:

All the sparkling edifices of the 1990s and 2000s are crumbling to dust.

As are those of us who created them.

Speak for yourself. I am crumbling to ashes.
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In article <33517428-54e5-49b9-8c03-1df97ddbec41n@googlegroups.com>,
Lee Rudolph <lrudolph381@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 1:20:53 PM UTC-5, Paul Tomblin wrote:

In a previous article, Ray Depew <bisho...@gmail.com> said:

All the sparkling edifices of the 1990s and 2000s are crumbling to dust.

As are those of us who created them.

Speak for yourself. I am crumbling to ashes.

Power Off options: please choose one.

[ ] Ashes to ashes
[ ] Funk to funky
[ ] Dust to dust
[ ] All flesh is grass
[ ] A spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire
[ ] Other (please detail in 16 characters or fewer)
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