If you’re like me, way too many of your friends love to forward you dozens and dozens of chain letter-style e-mails about things that sound way too hokey to be true.
Wonder if they are? One place to look is at Snopes.com, a Web site dedicated to confirming and/or dismissing Internet rumors. I used this site several times for articles during my tenure as an Eagle reporter.
An e-mail I received Monday night told the story of a woman charged $250 for a cookie recipe at a ritzy department store. (She had understood it to cost $2.50.) She wants the world to have the recipe for free because she feels ripped off, or so the story goes.
The Web site, however, says this in an urban legend that is at least five decades old.
So check out your myths. And please don’t send me any chain letters.
– Posted by Lori O’Toole Buselt