250: Snopes
explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
| Snopes |
 Title text: The MythBusters are even more sinister. |
[edit] Explanation
Snopes is a popular website for checking the validity of urban legends. In the comic, an urban legend is introduced about Snopes running a spam operations. Cueball would like to disprove the urban legend, but realizes to do so he would need to quote Snopes.
[edit] Transcript
- Cueball: Another urban legend? You should check out Snopes before sending me this stuff.
- Friend: Oops; yeah.
- Cueball: Man, Snopes is really great--independent fact-checkers trawling our collective discourse, filtering out misinformation.
- Friend: Yeah, but they have their dark side. The couple that runs snopes.com also runs a network of spam servers that start many of those forwarded stories in the first place, ensuring they'll always have business.
- Cueball: That's absurd. Plus, it's definitely not true--it was debunked by...
- Friend: Yes?
- Cueball: ... Oh my God.
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