"todd" wrote in message
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Old but still funny.

And still not true, Snopes.com is real useful when checking out these
urban myths.

I presumed it was a joke.

It was widely circulated as fact, some versions even naming the newspaper
where it supposedly originally appeared.

It's at the point where I'm beginning to suspect not everything one reads on
the internet is true, shocking, but it sure looks that way. ;^)