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Urban Legend Search Engine
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One of my favorite sites on the Net is the San Fernando Valley
Folklore Society's Urban Legends Reference Pages at
<A HREF="http://www.snopes.com/">
http://www.snopes.com/ </A>.
Created and maintained by the husband-and-wife team of Barbara and
David Mikkelson, Snopes.com is one of the two best urban-legend-
debunking sites on the Net. The other is David Emery's Urban Legends
and Folklore site at
<A HREF="http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/">
http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/ </A>.
You already know about both of these sites; we've talked about them
a squillion times over the past five years. But there is one thing I
haven't told you about one of these sites. In fact, what I am about
to tell you is one of my best-kept secrets: Snopes.com has a search
engine ... for urban legends!
When someone forwards me an email asking if its contents are true, I
usually just hop on over to
<A HREF="http://www.snopes.com/info/search/search.htm">
http://www.snopes.com/info/search/search.htm </A>
and type in a few keywords from the email in question. Up pops an
article or two that either debunks or "bunks" the email in question.
I then cut-and-paste the Web page address (see below) of the
appropriate Snopes.com article and include it in my reply. The person
who forwarded me the urban legend thinks I am an urban legend genius,
and all I had to do was type a word or two into a search engine.
And, now that you know about the Snopes.com search engine, you too can
become an urban legend guru or gurette. [First "bunks," now
"gurette." Maybe I should reconsider my decision not to subscribe to
the Oxford English Dictionary!] :)
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