Sunday, March 21, 2004

Subject: Fwd: THE ROBIN WILLIAMS PEACE PLAN

>Note: forwarded message attached.

Dear Fellow Netizens,

You forwarded an email from one to another that ended up with me. Robin Williams is one of my favorite comedians, so I opened the email post-haste. It expressed an opinion that I feel every time I hear the US "dissed" by some fella whose country was yanked from political, economic, or real disaster by our soldiers, technology, businesses, money, or other purely American resource.

But it wasn't funny. I didn't laugh once, not even a faint snicker or a soft snort.

I don't know about you, but I expect Robin Williams to be funny, even when he's playing a poor English teacher!

So I "Googled" the subject line of the email, which itself apparently had been forwarded to the first person in this e-Pass the Secret game.

In a fairly short time, I found this: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/williams.asp .... (Snopes is a reputable site with a Good Veracity Rating(TM).)

So, one of my favorite comedians did not write an un-funny "Peace Plan".....

Have a great day!

"B"

PS - The (TM) after Good Veracity Rating is sarcastic, but I do generally believe what I read on Snopes as it's been around for almost ten years and I haven't caught it in a deliberate fabrication yet.
PSS - Try a Google search the next time something tickles *your* caution toggle.... Search for a phrase rather than individual words by putting quotes around the phrase and typing it into the Google text box, for example:
"THE ROBIN WILLIAMS PEACE PLAN"

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