On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I'm not sure I disagree with you, but I definitely don't agree that this is > somehow specific to or worse for this generation. ;^) > > There's been hoaxers and publicity hounds since there's been money and > glory > to make from hoaxing. Piltdown man, the Cardiff Giant, Spiritual mediums, > Barnum's Fiji Mermaid, the Patterson footage of BigFoot, Crop Circles... > all > (and many, many more) done by older generations. > > Our generation has no market cornered on crap. ;^) > Most of them have a reason though....publicity, money, viral advertising....something. In this case it seemed like they were just out to make idiots of themselves and get themselves fired.... That was, until I read this: "The researchers purchased the remains from the 2 men for an undisclosed amount of money". *sigh* there you go...all this for a little bit of green. -- I'm happy just to sit here with old friends And see which one of us can tell the biggest lies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:266270 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
