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Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
July 31, 2002
A simple single question involving a funeral is nowhere near sufficient to identify who among us ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
July 29, 2002
How the sex-crazed March fly proliferated in the United States.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 24, 2002
Sometimes it doesn't matter whether you use language correctly, because people will think you're ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 8, 2002
Guns are not toys.
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 30, 2002
This quote is periodically dusted off and attributed to President Abraham Lincoln.
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 24, 2002
Can you look up anyone's driver's license on the Internet?
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 17, 2002
Spurious rumor holds that the personalities of Disney's seven dwarfs represent the seven stages ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
May 23, 2002
The presence of certain symbols on a variety of food products does not indicate that a 'secret t ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
May 21, 2002
Rumor holds that TLC's Lisa Lopes was murdered in a revenge killing because she had caused the d ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 13, 2002
Did George Washington tell of an angel who revealed a prophetic vision of America to him at Vall ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 8, 2002
The false attribution of racist screeds to celebrities is unfortunately not a rare phenomenon.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
April 17, 2002
An old bit of accepted psychology holds that men, on average, think about sex every seven seconds.
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 29, 2002
Did Dragnet's Sgt. Joe Friday character frequently implore female informants to provide 'Just th ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 24, 2002
Information about the 'Budweiser Frogs' screensaver computer virus warning.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
March 16, 2002
Those numbers work sometimes, but calling #77 or 112 on your cell phone will not necessarily con ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 10, 2002
A Boeing 757, and not a cruise missile or anything else, caused damage to the Pentagon on 9/11.
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 9, 2002
What's not to believe about a band founded as much on outrageousness as on music?
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 8, 2002
Lee Marvin and Bob 'Captain Kangaroo' Keeshan were both in the military during World War II, but ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Feb. 19, 2002
Did a man who attached a JATO unit to his car end up smashing it into the side of a cliff?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 12, 2002
An article demonstrating how to eliminate U.S. oil imports from Middle Eastern countries is both ...
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