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Snopes Debunked After FBI Raid
March 29th, 2008
by Charlie Brown

LOS ANGELES - CA - Snopes.com the Urban Legend reference website was raided by the FBI in a massive operation yesterday.

The Urban Legend website that sets to debunk many internet stories was yesterday raided by thousands of FBI agents in a dawn swoop that took the owners by surprise.

The offices for Snopes were housed in a disused warehouse near La Cienega and their location moved every week for the past few years.

"We could not trace where the Snopes people held their servers because they would move them every week. It is very hard for law enforcement to track down and bring to justice such sites," Lieutenant Bill Rapaport told the Daily Squib.

Snopes who have claimed to be the upholders of all truth on the internet are actually a bunch of hoaxers who operate out of disused warehouses. It seems that they played on the fact that most Americans have to have everything explained to them and have no understanding of pathos or rhetoric. Snopes.com has been fooling American internet users for years and exploiting the premise that many of the population are not able to establish fiction from fact.

One distraught web user told the Daily Squib: "I was reading Snopes and the stories I read I assumed were debunked fake stories, but instead they were true stories and I frankly feel slightly cheated."

The owners of the offending website were marched away by a troupe of FBI agents after a protracted gunfight that lasted all of 14 hours. The Snopers even had a sniper rifle and pinned the FBI agents down in their vehicles for two hours. The Snoper gunfire from automatic machine guns then lit the whole neighbourhood up ending in a climax of TNT sticks being lobbed at the hapless agents.

The arrests were the result of a stakeout lasting two weeks and utilising state of the art aerial surveillance drones borrowed from the LAPD.

Chief of Police Dan Arbuthnot III Esq. for La Cienega PDA had this to say today: "We got 'em. It was hard but finally we got these Snopers for good, they won't be out there on the internet claiming to be talking the truth with their propaganda lies. Snope my ass! William Faulkner sure has a lot to answer for."

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Who is Charlie Brown? Is it just a coincidence that someone of that name shares a cartoon strip with a dog called Snoopy?
Who runs the "Daily Squib?

Monty's double?

When British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery visited California in 1946, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Goldwyn hosted a dinner in his honor. "It gives me great pleasure," Goldwyn announced, "to welcome to Hollywood a very distinguished soldier. Ladies and gentlemen, I propose a toast to Marshall Field Montgomery." An awkward silence followed - at last broken by Jack Warner: "You mean," he suggested, "Montgomery Ward?"

A young actress was once invited by Ethel Barrymore to dinner - and not only failed to appear but neglected to apologize or account for her absence. A few days later, the two women unexpectedly met at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York. "I think I was invited to your house to dinner last Thursday night," the young woman began. "Oh, yes?" Barrymore replied. "Did you come?"

During the production of Gone With the Wind (1939), producer David O. Selznick was dismayed to learn that the Hays Office (charged with censoring cinematic obscenity) staunchly refused to allow the word 'damn' to be uttered on screen, and suggested that Rhett Butler (Clark Cable) declare: "Frankly, I don't care," rather than, "Frankly, I don't give a damn," when he leaves Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in the film's climactic scene. Selznick wrote a long letter to Hays pleading his case:
"The word as used in the picture," he said, "is not an oath or a curse... The worst that could be said for it is that it is a vulgarism, and it is so described in the Oxford English dictionary... Nor do I feel that in asking you to make an exception in this case... this one sentence will open up the floodgates. I do believe, however, that if you were to permit our using this dramatic word in its rightfully dramatic place, it would establish a helpful precedent... giving your office discretionary powers to allow the use of certain harmless oaths whenever they are... not prejudicial to public morals. The omission of this line spoils the punch at the very end of the picture and on our very fadeout gives an impression of unfaithfulness after three hours and forty-five minutes of extreme fidelity to Miss Mitchell's work which has become... an American Bible."

Remarkably, Hays overruled his board of advisers and let Gable utter the troublesome word. He then fined Selznick $15,000 for violating the Production Code.