Supposed to be true

[DUD]

This is supposed to be the transcript of an actual radio conversation between a US naval ship and Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1995. The Radio conversation was released by the Chief of Naval Operations on Oct. 10, 1995.

- Please change your direction 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.

- Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to South to avoid a collision.

- This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.

- No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.

- THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER ENTERPRISE, WE ARE A LARGE WARSHIP OF THE US NAVY. DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW!
- This is a lighthouse. Your call.

[LCHIEN]

old story pased around
Snopes claims its false.
http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp

[Ed62]

old story pased around
Snopes claims its false.
http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp

But still funny.

Ed

[TB Roye]

Snopes takes all the fun out it. My Daughter in Law checks everything through snopes. Doesn't read the newspaper, doesn't watch the news, doesn't read a book. If it is not in Snopes or on CSI it doesn't exist or insn't true. She is not ever a Blonde.

Tom

[Tom Slick]

you can watch a video of this episode on youtube if you are really bore.!

[LCHIEN]

OK, so not to be a total killjoy here's a story snopes cofirms to be true, about a American bomber crew spared by a german pilot during WWII, that should move you a bit.

http://www.snopes.com/military/charliebrown.asp

[Richard in Smithville]

Dud: I've heard that one before and always get a chuckle when some one relates it again. Thanks

[Uncle Cracker]

Has anybody ever bothered to check and see if Snopes is real??

[LCHIEN]

Has anybody ever bothered to check and see if Snopes is real??

Wikipedia says "Snopes aims to debunk or confirm widely spread urban legends".

But is Wikipedia trustworthy?

[germdoc]

Ab, Flem, Bilbo, Vardaman and the gang

Snopes takes all the fun out it. My Daughter in Law checks everything through snopes. Doesn't read the newspaper, doesn't watch the news, doesn't read a book. If it is not in Snopes or on CSI it doesn't exist or insn't true. She is not ever a Blonde.

Tom

From Wikipedia: "In Michael Crichton's novel Next, a news report claims that blondes are going extinct. Several chapters later, the report is debunked with Snopes cited as a source."

In case you're interested in the real fictional Snopes, here's the genealogy from the Faulkner novels:



I myself am partial to Col. Sartoris Snopes (Sarty)...

[Turaj]

I knew this wouldn't be true. A Newfie (Newfoundlander) would invite you over to have a beer or two

[leehljp]

I know one quote in which Snopes IS wrong on, but will not comment on it directly because it is very political. The speech happened in another country from the US of A; the comment was broadcast here in Japan and back in the home state of the politician. My sister and her husband saw it there and I saw it here. It made me laugh and my sister called me a few days later and commented on it too.

BUT, Snopes refutes it from the perspective of a USA speech that didn't happen - which is true in the sense that it did not happen in a USA delivered speech.

[cwithboat]

The lighthouse story has been told in every Power Squadron and Coast Guard Auxiliary basic boating course since inception. It was probably first told about 45 minutes after Marconi invented the radio. I certainly first heard or read it decades before 1995.