Fool Me Once Shame On You...
Turns out, some of the so-called "cell phone super powers" from my last posting are bulls#%t.
Thanks to some curious friends who I eagerly sent the emails to, I've found out that not all cell phones have all powers (and some powers are not even possible).
I decided there were seven major ways I could handle my dissemination of misinformation:
A. I could do a George Bush and just keep the lie going with false claims that it worked on my phone, and claim that if it's not working on yours then you're not a patriot. Like Richard Pryor once joked (on stage) to his wife who caught him in the act of cheating, "who are you gonna believe? Me, or your lying eyes??!!"
B. I could do a Dick Cheney and erase my original post and deny that I ever even sent anything out. Or, falsely accuse someone else of breaking into my blog account and posting it.
C. I could do a Bill Clinton and use verbal spin to make it appear as if I had done nothing inappropriate (until someone can actually subpoena my computer and prove it).
D. I could do a John Edwards and drop to my knees admitting that I was gullible for believing in cell phone powers and apologizing for posting the blog
E. I could do a Hillary Clinton and wait for all hell to break loose before unapologetically saying that if I knew then what I know now I wouldn't have posted the blog (well of course not, duh!).
F. Or I could've done a Barak Obama and immediately recognized the subject matter as "dumb" and refuse to post it on my blog in the first place.
I guess I'll do a "Light" and just tell the truth: The claims are mostly BS (although strangely the car door thing worked on my car---but not on the cars of my friends). Anyway, if you are interested, click the link below to read the real scoop on the Cell Phone email:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp
Thanks to some curious friends who I eagerly sent the emails to, I've found out that not all cell phones have all powers (and some powers are not even possible).
I decided there were seven major ways I could handle my dissemination of misinformation:
A. I could do a George Bush and just keep the lie going with false claims that it worked on my phone, and claim that if it's not working on yours then you're not a patriot. Like Richard Pryor once joked (on stage) to his wife who caught him in the act of cheating, "who are you gonna believe? Me, or your lying eyes??!!"
B. I could do a Dick Cheney and erase my original post and deny that I ever even sent anything out. Or, falsely accuse someone else of breaking into my blog account and posting it.
C. I could do a Bill Clinton and use verbal spin to make it appear as if I had done nothing inappropriate (until someone can actually subpoena my computer and prove it).
D. I could do a John Edwards and drop to my knees admitting that I was gullible for believing in cell phone powers and apologizing for posting the blog
E. I could do a Hillary Clinton and wait for all hell to break loose before unapologetically saying that if I knew then what I know now I wouldn't have posted the blog (well of course not, duh!).
F. Or I could've done a Barak Obama and immediately recognized the subject matter as "dumb" and refuse to post it on my blog in the first place.
I guess I'll do a "Light" and just tell the truth: The claims are mostly BS (although strangely the car door thing worked on my car---but not on the cars of my friends). Anyway, if you are interested, click the link below to read the real scoop on the Cell Phone email:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp
3 Comments:
Awww, how noble of you:-)
hey, light - welcome back from karina and me!
you could write for "the onion" on the side, you know.
So, then you not only did a "Light" but also an "Al Gore" by exposing an "Inconvenient Truth". ;P
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