Meanwhile…. if you happen to check in so late….they can be cute tales but please remember…. most stories you get in your e-mail are just that!
Sorry, but Alexander Fleming never rescued Winston Churchill, nor was he sent to school by his father, Randolph.Churchill WAS cured of pneumonia…. by a German drug.
England was at war with Germany…. so someone invented an inspiring but fake substitute tale.
The one about the Stanfords is even more glaring: Leland Stanford was a HUGE figure in California history…
a railroad tycoon variously known as a “robber baron” or a “captain of industry”, quite well dressed, as he’d already been governor of California and a senator long before endowing Stanford University…which WAS a memorial to his son, but the boy had died in his teens.
Sites like Snopes.com and urbanlegends.about.com have researched almost all of the ones that show up repeatedly…and believe me, they DO come back around!It seems OK if they’re just cute or inspiring little tales …but vicious rumors, attacks and lies sometimes also show up in the same type of e-mails…caution and research never hurt.
Hi all…just checking in…
I’ll be back in a while for the night shift….
Meanwhile…. if you happen to check in so late….they can be cute tales but please remember…. most stories you get in your e-mail are just that!
Sorry, but Alexander Fleming never rescued Winston Churchill, nor was he sent to school by his father, Randolph.Churchill WAS cured of pneumonia…. by a German drug.
England was at war with Germany…. so someone invented an inspiring but fake substitute tale.
The one about the Stanfords is even more glaring: Leland Stanford was a HUGE figure in California history…
a railroad tycoon variously known as a “robber baron” or a “captain of industry”, quite well dressed, as he’d already been governor of California and a senator long before endowing Stanford University…which WAS a memorial to his son, but the boy had died in his teens.
Sites like Snopes.com and urbanlegends.about.com have researched almost all of the ones that show up repeatedly…and believe me, they DO come back around!It seems OK if they’re just cute or inspiring little tales …but vicious rumors, attacks and lies sometimes also show up in the same type of e-mails…caution and research never hurt.