Here's another one everyone seemed to accept without question-
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> "The average person swallows 8 spiders a year while asleep".
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> No they don't, it was total invention by a writer who wanted to show how
> gullible some people are, and it paid off because this story circulated the
> world via email and many people accepted it.
What was the name of the bloke who invented the they that used to believe the world was flat? The denouement took a Monte Python serial myth killer to alert me. He blamed another Yank I think.
I might have guessed where this thread came from by the way.
MESSAGE TO ALL:
Check your cross posts. Be careful out here.