Carlos Moreno <moreno_at_mochima_dot_com@mailinator.com> writes:

> Unruh wrote:
>
<snip>
> > believes anything that a "freind who heard it from a sister in law who
> > heard it from her milkman" says.
>
> Are you talking about the OP? Why would you "accuse" him of
> such naiveness? First of all, he did not say how many levels
> of "hearsay" the story went through -- for all we know, he
> could have read it in CNN (in which case there's no dount
> about whether or not we should believe it ;-))
>
> But second -- who said that anyone is believing anything?
> The fact that he's asking here simply means that he is giving
> the story the benefit of the doubt. That seems like a very
> sensible thing to do -- asking here is a sensible thing to
> do.
>
The OP (me) heard this at work and voiced some scepticism. Then
the OP (me) wanted to double check. The rest is history as they say.

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