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:Friend: Yes?
 
:Friend: Yes?
:Cueball: ... Oh my God.
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Revision as of 04:39, 26 June 2013

Snopes
The MythBusters are even more sinister.
Title text: The MythBusters are even more sinister.

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.

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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Discussion

First!Unpopular Opinions (talk) 17:19, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Should it be mentioned that 509: Induced Current is related to the title text? 162.158.62.28 16:42, 23 January 2021 (UTC)