Snopes.com has not hired me yet. I am hoping that my days behind a big executive desk in the their headquarters is just around the corner. Once I get settled with all of my various bobbleheads on the desk, I will get right to work on my new campaign to get more people to check their site. By more people, I mean ladies over 50 and an occasional gullible male of any age. As most of you likely know, Snopes closely examines urban legends passed around on the Internet, researches them and determines if they are true or false. Let's check to see how badly you need Scopes in your life. Do you think these urban legends are true?
Snopes.com has not hired me yet. I am hoping that my days behind a big executive desk in the their headquarters is just around the corner. Once I get settled with all of my various bobbleheads on the desk, I will get right to work on my new campaign to get more people to check their site. By more people, I mean ladies over 50 and an occasional gullible male of any age. As most of you likely know, Snopes closely examines urban legends passed around on the Internet, researches them and determines if they are true or false. Let's check to see how badly you need Scopes in your life. Do you think these urban legends are true? |
| When I get my new job, the only bobblehead I'm keeping from this bunch is Meredith. Anyone want Pam or Kevin? |
I'll give you a second to answer. Okay, the second is up. Are they true? SNOPE, they are all FALSE! As hard as this might be for your aunt to believe, these just are not true. These crazy legends wouldn't flood our e-mail inboxes if someone just before us had checked it first with Snopey. So, in an effort to increase awareness of lying e-mail writers and gain a lucrative position at Snopes, I have taken it upon myself to develop a line of gifts for your mother, aunt, great aunt, grandmother, mother-in-law, cousin and next door neighbor just in time for Mother's Day.
The idea is that we get the message out to the ladies in our lives in as many ways as possible:
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| When they get dressed... |
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| When they are at the computer... |
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When they are bathing... |
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When they are watching TV... |
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| When they are driving... |
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| www.onlinepresscorps.com When they are skiing... |
There are more products being developed as we speak. If you have any ideas, please let me know. I think we can defeat the spreading of the urban legends but only IF WE WORK TOGETHER!
Buy her a gift today!
33 comments:
Oh. Em. Gee. I am seriously considering buying this tshirt for my Mother-in-law. She is the queen of forwarding warnings of any kind. Some I get- OK you want to help out a kidnapped child, etc. But then she'll send a "DON'T EAT RICE KRISPIES, THEY ARE ACTUALLY MADE OF REAL LIVE LICE" type of forward. This could possibly be the best Mother's Day gift of all time.
THANK YOU!
Those are great ideas.
YES!!! Thank you! I love hitting the Snopes FORWARD button to all the people who send me stupid emails.
I would like to set this post as an auto reply to just certain people. Mainly my HUSBAND. I rarely even read what he sends to me and he gets so offended, but I swear he is more gullible than an 80 year old woman. Now don't go emailing him telling him you're from Nigeria.
Oh if ONLY I could send this to my well meaning but utterly clueless Mother In Law....humm. maybe the t-shirt tho!
P.S. I love Eloise too!
Amen, sistah!! I'd like to send a few of those to my darling sister....she drives me crazy with those forwards. (Not that I ever actually read them... just delete, delete, delete.)
A little worried about granny trying to use the INTRANET while driving...not sure about this one - could cause some major litigation!
WAIT. there isn't a man hiding under my car to cut my achilles heel and rob/murder me?
There isn't a person in the mall trying to make sure I sniff thier perfume they can rob/murder me?
There isn't a gang waiting on me to flash my headlights at them so they can rob/murder me?
Basically - no one has a crazy scheme to rob/murder me?
*whew* I can delete those WARNING YOU ARE GONNA DIE emails now.
Those are all cute. You know, I always mean to check out Snopes, but never do.
I need all of those products to give to my grandmother so she can remember to read snopes and quit it with those e-mails about people hiding under my car and in my dryer barrel.
I'm not most....i had no idea what the hell this was.....LOL I'm a dweeb:)
I must, MUST buy all of these for my parents.
Hey! That VICKS thing really works! Really... it DOES!
Please send this to my MOM! Also, can you please include "Tamboreen" on your list of "een" names? Not. even. kidding.
I'm over 50.
I check Snopes.
Whatevs.
Wow! I can't wait to gouge my eyes out and poke holes in my eardrums. Yes...this was that interesting. But for some sick reason I keep coming back for more.
YES! I've never heard of that website, but now you've got me excited about it, which shows how good you are at advertising. :)
I have a great aunt who definitely needs the Snopes on a Rope... and possibly a TATTOO on her forward button clicking index finger!!!
haha, Snopes on a Rope! I'm telling my friend about this She's 50 something and is a SNOPES believer!!! ;)
I loved this post. I'd comment more, but I'm off to check my email. There is an African prince who is supposed to deposit a million dollars in my bank account soon. Talk to you later!
I need a few t-shirts in size Extra Naive and a pre-written email explaining how SNOPES works for a few people. Love the bobbleheads!
Wow, I was a sucker for all of those statements until I got to the last one. (Terrorists can't be that bright. UPS uniforms are hot.)
I love your pics, especially the ski lift.
xoRobyn
First of all, I am officially starting my bobble head collection today.
Thank you.
Second, it drives me crazy whenever anyone sends me those chain emails but that's nothing like the annoyance when it's a myth that's been busted by snopes! I'm like, really, you didn't check that first before trusting that one guy who married your twice removed aunt and apparently thinks doctors are the devil?
I am a huge supporter of all Snopes-related merchandise, is what I'm saying.
And that I'm crazy.
But that's what I'm always saying.
Before you go to church to catch a glimpse of the pope, check out Snopes! I think that's pretty catchy.
Ava
If I order now, will it be here by Mother's Day?
I have stopped telling people about snopes when they send me internet hoaxes (cough, cough, my Mom). I figure if they don't know better by now, they never will.
Snopes on a rope? SNOLD.
Uh...that would be SOLD.
I don't see how Snopes could possibly refuse to hire you KKell, those were some great slogans you came up with. At the very least, Bill Gates should send you to Disneyland to reward your creativity!
I feel like the whole point of this post was so you could brag about owning a BMW.
Oh, and my bmw comment was supposed to be a hilarious joke...soooo...commence laughter. NOW.
Once, again, here I am giggling. I think you've got a real winner with Snopes on a Rope! Genius!!!
This is freaking hilarious!!!! Totally spot on. My M.I.L...whom I love very very much...sends me forwards ALL OF THE TIME. She won't read my blog because she says that she doesn't understand all of the Facebook stuff (it has nothing in common with FB) but she insists on sending me tons of forwards. She sent me on the other day about how one mother fed her son pancakes from expired flour and the spores from the yeast almost killed him. I'm a pastry chef. There is no yeast in pancakes. Bless her heart. I'm sending this to her for sure!!!
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