{"id":6846,"date":"2004-12-20T14:16:28","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T21:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/12\/20\/2004-lists-first-of-what-will-no-doubt-be-a-series.html"},"modified":"2004-12-20T14:16:28","modified_gmt":"2004-12-20T21:16:28","slug":"2004_lists_firs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/20\/2004_lists_firs.html","title":{"rendered":"2004 Lists, First of What Will No Doubt Be a Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the year is always a time for Lists of the Greatest\/Worst\/Most\/Etc. in various categories.<\/p>\n<p>First one I&#8217;ve run across that stuck with me:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofhoaxes.com\/hoax\/Top_2004_Hoaxes\/index\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top Hoaxes of 2004<\/a>.  What&#8217;s interesting is that I&#8217;d not heard of at least one of them (the Bhopal Hoax).<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem with the list (which you get to vote on) is how you define a Top Hoax.  The best publicized (Bush Voter IQs)?  The one with the most effect (Rathergate)?  The most elegant or finely crafted (Kaufman)?  The number of times you&#8217;ve had to forward the appropriate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Snopes<\/a> page to someone to debunk it (Home Computer)?<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, what will be interesting is how many of these are remembered in five years.  Perhaps that will be the true test of the Top Hoax.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/blog\/index\/P18139\/\" target=\"_blank\">J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the year is always a time for Lists of the Greatest\/Worst\/Most\/Etc. in various categories. 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