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Autos & Gasoline Issues

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If everyone boycotts buying gasoline on a certain day prices will come down - FALSE

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If everyone stops buying from certain refiners, prices will come down - FALSE

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Buying gasoline from certain refiners supports terrorism - FALSE

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Static electricity can cause fires while pumping gas and cell phones can spark static electricity while pumping gas - TRUE & FALSE

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It's dangerous to use cruise control in wet weather - TRUE

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Cell phones can be used to unlock electronic locks on car doors - FALSE

American Patriotism

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Article "What is an American?" was written by an Australian dentist after 9/11 - FALSE

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Did a Lt. Layne McDowell really write a letter to the Dixie Chicks after Natalie Maines made comments about Pres. Bush at a concert?  YES

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Did comedian Dennis Miller really write an article about the Iraq war entitled "Trying to Help?"  No

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The State of Florida allowed a Muslim woman to have her DL picture taken with a full face covering - FALSE

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Actor Robin Williams pens a piece about fixing immigration - FALSE

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Did singer Charlie Daniels write a piece about Hollywood liberals?  YES

 

Celebrities

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"Hanoi" Jane Fonda is named as one of the top 100 Women of the Century, but Vietnam era POW's tell a different story - PARTLY TRUE, PARTLY FALSE

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Actress Cindy Williams wrote an article against military pay raises - FALSE

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John Wayne became a Christian 3 weeks before his death thanks to Robert Schuller's daughter - FALSE

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Tommy Hilfiger appeared on Oprah and made racist statements - FALSE

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Maya Angelou wrote a poem about African-Americans buying clothes & products from Hilfiger & KKK owned companies?  FALSE

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An inspirational story of Mel Gibson serving as the inspiration for his movie "Man Without A Face" - FALSE

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George Carlin wrote a poignant piece called "A Paradox of Our Time." - FALSE

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Jane Fonda pulls a "don't you know who I am" at a restaurant and gets told off - DOUBTFUL

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A man by the name of Russ Hamblin, a hard-drinking friend of John Wayne's, gives his life to Christ after a Billy Graham crusade and goes on to write Christian songs including, "It Is No Secret."  SOME PARTS TRUE, SOME PARTS FALSE

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Lee Marvin, Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers were all WAR heroes - 99% false, but Lee Marvin was decorated. 

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Various allegations about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - SOME PARTS TRUE, SOME PARTS FALSE

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Did George Carlin, or Ted Neugent, or Rush Limbaugh or Andy Rooney write a piece called "I Am a Bad American?"  FALSE

Companies

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Target excludes veteran's groups from charitable giving, but does include gay & lesbian causes?  FALSE

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A disgruntled Neiman-Marcus customer places their cookie recipe on the internet for revenge against a huge charge for the recipe - FALSE

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All sort of other uses for Coke prove how nasty and bad for you it really is - FALSE

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Kentucky Fried Chicken was forced to change its name to KFC and cease advertising that they sell chicken because they only sell genetically altered organisms - FALSE

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ABC wrote a very nasty letter to a viewer who complained about positive treatment of homosexuality in a show - FALSE

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Buy pink & white M & M's to help with breast cancer research - Once true and true again

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Support Sears because they support military personnel - TRUE, but so do at least 100 other companies

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Starbucks writes marines that they won't send them coffee because they don't support the Iraq war - FALSE

 

Forward Email to Get Free Stuff

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Forward email to get money from Bill Gates or AOL or Microsoft - FALSE

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Forward email to get a free gift certificate from Applebee's -  FALSE

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Forward email to get a gift certificate from Cracker Barrel -  FALSE

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Forward email to get a gift certificate from Victoria's Secret - FALSE

 

Chain Email

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Chain Prayers (not prayer requests)

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Inspirational Chains

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Illegal Chains

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Good/Bad Luck Chains

Bill & Hill - The Evil Clintons?

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Hillary Clinton defended a Black Panther accused of murder!  FALSE

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The Clintons are charging the Secret Service rent to protect them in their NY home - FALSE

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Hillary Clinton snubbed a group of Goldstar Mothers and was the only politician to do so - FALSE

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Bill Clinton is the first pardoned federal felon to serve as President - FALSE
Bill Clinton broke promises to hunt down and bring terrorists to justice - FALSE

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Bill Clinton freed Mohammed Atta, the accused 9/11 mastermind, from an Israeli prison - FALSE

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A Secret Service agent writes that Hillary Clinton was consistently and constantly rude - DOUBTFUL

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Soldier crosses his fingers in picture with Hillary - TRUE

 

Crime

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Tale of mall abductions & flat tire killers - FALSE

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Men lure women over to smell perfume samples but it is really ether and they knock them out and rob them - FALSE

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Don't chat with anyone by the screen name of Slavemaster, Monkeyman or SweetCaliGuy4ver because he's suspected of murdering 56 women - FALSE

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When in trouble on the road, use cell phone and dial # 77 or #677 - ONLY IN THE STATES OF MARYLAND & VIRGINIA OR ONTARIO, CANADA

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A new carjacking scheme involves putting flyers on the rear windows of vehicles so that people will get out to take them off - FALSE

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Will petitioning a British court express outrage or make them reveal the names of two child killers who killed when they were 10 years old and are now to be released anonymously?  NOT ANYMORE

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Is a serial killer using a ruse of playing a tape of a crying baby to get women to open their door or convincing women to open car doors by claiming they've dropped money?  FALSE

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Is your personal information encoded on hotel card keys?  FALSE

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Is a drug called Progesterex being used by rapists to sterilize their victims?  FALSE

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Do rapists really choose victims by clothing and hair and other criteria?  SOME REALLY BAD ANTI-RAPE ADVICE

Health Issues
bullet Antiperspirants cause cancer - FALSE
bullet Yucky stories about roach eggs - FALSE
bullet People die of spider bites received in restrooms in Florida - FALSE
bullet Coughing during a heart attack can save your life - DISPUTED
bullet Child named Kevin Archer dies after being punctured by needle in ball pit - FALSE
bullet Urgent recall of drugs containg phenylpropanolamine - OLD and not a recall
bullet Store clerk in Hawaii dies from contact with rat feces or urine on soda cans - FALSE
bullet Don't use plastic when microwaving food and don't freeze plastic water bottles - A GRAIN OF TRUTH
bullet Aspartame CAUSES major diseases - FALSE
bullet Request Ovarian Cancer test CA-125 to detect cancer - FALSE
bullet Captain Sands of the Jacksonville, FL police warns of HIV infected needles on gas pumps - FALSE
bullet Is butter better than margarine?  Some parts are true and some are FALSE
bullet Is using "Dust-Off" a new way for teens to get high?  Story is TRUE, but it is not NEW
bullet Is Padgets Disease a new kind of breast cancer?  It's not new, but it's RARE

 

Pleas For Help

 

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Missing Children

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Dying Children

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Forward email to help baby Natalie

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Forward email to help Amy Bruce

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Forward email to help unnamed child (includes Slow Dance poem)

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Forward email to help Rachel Arlington

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Amber alert for missing child Penny Brown

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Help locate missing child Christopher John Mineo

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Help locate missing child Kelsey Brooke Jones

Political 

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Oliver North named Osama bin Laden as a feared terrorist in 1987 Iran/Contra hearings while Al Gore questioned him - FALSE

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Congress does not "fix" social security because they do not pay into it (FALSE) and they have lifetime retirement of same pay they got while serving - FALSE

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U.S. bill 602P will tax email - FALSE

 

 

Religious Messages

 

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NASA computers prove "Joshua's missing day" from Bible - FALSE

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A movie is being made showing Jesus and His disciples as gay (includes "petition" to ban the movie) - FALSE

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Jim Neugent writes letter to ABC protesting positive treatment of homosexuality on a program and gets very nasty letter back - PARTLY TRUE

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Harry Potter books are turning children to Satanism and witchcraft and author J.W. Rowland is Satan worshipper - FALSE

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John Wayne became a Christian shortly before his death - FALSE

Pictures

 

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Huge iceberg - MANIPULATED PHOTO

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Shark jumps at diver trying to board helicopter - MANIPULATED PHOTO

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Photos show shuttle exploding in space and claim to be of Columbia - actually scene from 1998 movie Armageddon

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Photo shows an unusual jet formation over Randolph AFB - manipulated

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Alligator with deer in its mouth - True, but inaccurate description

 

Inspirational Stories

 

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26 armed guards protect missionaries while 26 people pray - PARTLY TRUE

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Cockpit voice recorder on doomed Alaska Airlines Flight 261 captures woman sharing the Gospel with all on board in final 9 minutes - FALSE

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"Do you believe in Easter?" The inspirational story of Edith Burns - FALSE

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Inspirational story called "The Price of a Miracle" - WHO KNOWS?

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Teenager Brian Moore writes a piece called "The Room" and reads it to his FCA group shortly before being killed in an auto accident - PARTLY TRUE

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Children in Special Olympics race stop to help fallen comrade and all cross finish line together - PARTLY TRUE

Miscellaneous

 

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If you don't call a special phone number by July to opt-out, Credit Bureaus can sell your info to anyone who asks - FALSE

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Anyone can view your driver's license over the internet - FALSE (joke)

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Woman finds fried chicken head in box of McDonalds wings - TRUE

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The Florida DMV can sell the information in your DMV records unless you opt-out!  SORT OF. 

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The State of Florida has allowed a Muslim woman to have her driver's license picture taken with a full head covering on, showing only her eyes - FALSE

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The Swifer Wet Jet Formula is killing pets - FALSE

 

Terrorism

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A man named Mohammed Atta blew up a bus in Israel and was convicted and imprisoned.  Under the Oslo agreement, a U.S. President got him freed and he went on to help mastermind the 9/11 attacks - FALSE

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If you buy gas from certain refiners, you are supporting terrorism, so buy from these other companies because they don't buy oil from the Middle East - FALSE

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A top Al-Queda member gives an interview to an Al-Jazeera reporter stating that nukes are already planted in seven U.S. cities but Al-Jazeera won't air or publish the interview - FALSE

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The Office of Homeland Security warns that United Parcel Service uniforms are being bought on E-Bay by terrorists! - FALSE

Viruses

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WTC Survivor - FALSE

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Life is Beautiful - FALSE

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Bud Frogs - FALSE

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It Takes Guts to Say Jesus - FALSE

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WTC Survivors - FALSE

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Message with instructions for deleting a supposed virus infected file: either jdbgmgr.exe or sulfnbk.exe - FALSE

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How to "trick" a virus into not sending through your address book - FALSE

 

Petitions

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Poem that claims to be "petition" (but no petition is included) to U.S. President from Mothers Against Drunk Driving - FALSE

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Evil atheists have signed petition to remove all references to God on TV and the government will hold hearings on it so sign this petition against it - FALSE  FALSE  FALSE 

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Petition to U.S. President to reinstate prayer in schools - President does not make laws and prayer is not illegal in schools - USELESS & FALSE

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Petition to save PBS/NPR radio funding - OLD & USELESS

The U.S. Postal Service

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The USPS is selling a stamp that "honors" Muslims, so we should boycott the stamp - FALSE

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The USPS is discontinuing its Black Heritage series of stamps - FALSE

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The USPS is selling a stamp that helps with breast cancer research - TRUE

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The USPS has issued a commemorative stamp for a Muslim holiday (TRUE) so everyone need to boycott it since Muslims are terrorists (FALSE)

 

 

Scams

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Don't dial 90# if given instructions by someone claiming to be phone co. employee - FALSE. Not applicable to home phone users.

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Don't dial area 809 if left instructions to do so - MORE TO IT

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Someone from a foreign country needs to get money out and you can help by "lending" them part of the money for incredible interest return - SCAM

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You're informed by email that you've won a foreign lottery that you never bought a ticket for - SCAM

Prayer Requests

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Pray for little Delaney Parrish - OLD

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Pray for Cindy Hogman or Hogan - OLD

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Many email prayer requests talk about a prayer wheel, so what exactly is a prayer wheel?

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