>>>>>>It can be true? I can't believe in if it's true...
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>>>>>>http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=46730&in_page_id=34
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>>>>>>Makes me glad we own cats. <s>
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>>>>>Yeah, I'm definately not a cat person. Wait - I have three cats now. Hmmm... How did that happen? I know that I'm not a cat person, because I've always said it, and have always owned dogs. I "inherited" 3 kittens about 2 years ago, and know now that I am cat person. They have much more personality than I ever thought cats could have. They run to greet us in the morning and evenings. They love to be petted. They're really just like dogs, except they're smarter and I don't have to walk them... <g>
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>>>>Just don't try to sell them as poodles. ;) I'm a cat person myself. I have 4. I didn't intend it that way, I wanted just 1, but somewhere along the way...
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>>>>You know, I realise the story said that the Japanese haven't really seen many poodles, but honestly, did they really think a poodle is a type of dog that has hooves?
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>>>Yeah, the whole hoof thing should have tipped them off. Americans may be crass, but you really can't call us naive.
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>>No, not like the guy who bought London Bridge:
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>>http://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/havasu.htm
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>>and thought he was getting Tower Bridge:
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>>http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLR,GGLR:2005-39,GGLR:en&q=tower+bridge+london
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>>> still find it funny that there was an entire town in Romania who ran away (literally) because they thought the lights from a carnival in another town were invading aliens. That's what happens when you have a potato box for a TV...
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>>Totally unlike the thousands of Americans who panicked at Awful Wells's "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
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>>http://www.transparencynow.com/welles.htm
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>I actually thought of mentioning that as I wrote the post, but then that happened back before any real technology was around other than radio. Our TVs were still potato boxes, but not now. Couldn't happen here now; we have Snopes!

So if they sound the 4 minute warning, all hands are going to rush to their computers, power up, log on to the web, and check out Snopes. No, wait a minute, you all leave everything on all the time anyway - what am I saying?

And there is some evidence for that last sentence. Just think how VT decided to warn students of Cho - emails!!!
That assumed 1) all hands were logged on, 2) they were in their dorms, 3) they had email on 4) they were attentive to the pc.