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Re: Don't pump gas on May 15th

#5165
From: David Kehler
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 17:07
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"Mr Frederick" <fpeditor1@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> <myhome@mts.net> wrote in message 
> news:b72q3353oko2pfs3ia2cs5fbnenbl63h0m@4ax.com...
>> x-no-archive: yes   On Fri, 4 May 2007 21:39:37 -0500, "Peter D"
>> <please@.sk> wrote:
>>
>>>30c a gallon drop in April 1997? Yeah, right. Statistics without
>>>support. Anyway, among the dumbest ideas known to man this has to be
>>>right up there!
>>>Credit where credit is due though. It's not your idea. You just
>>>snatched it
>>>from someplace else and cut/pasted it here without attribution and
>>>took the
>>>credit. So, I guess that means your only a plagiariser and a fool,
>>>not the maker of foolish notions.
>>>
>>
>> Geezzzus H Christ, this was posted as a JOKE, is that all it takes to
>> set you boys off.
> 
> Where's the joke?  This kind of crap is being sent out on a regular
> basis to hundreds of thousands of e-mail addresses, and countless chat
> groups and forums.  I stopped finding it funny after the first couple
> of years of seeing it all over the place.  Snopes doesn't find it so
> funny either. 

I saw no evidence that it was posted as a joke either.  Backpedaling to try 
to save face after being soundly criticized is more like it.

David
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Subject: Re: Don't pump gas on May 15th
From: David Kehler <dkehler33@REMOVEshaw.ca>
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