The top 25 hoaxes/pranks on the internet

[Cowperson]

PC World has a list of the top 25 hoaxes/pranks ever posted on the internet . . . . to date.

http://www.pcworld.com/printable/art...printable.html

Cowperson

[Resolute 14]

How did Bonsai Kitten not make that list? There are still papers (Winnipeg Sun) writing about how bad it is as late as last year.

[chris lindberg]

Anyone know where I could find some good screamers or are they called
shockers?

[RougeUnderoos]

The "Metallica sues band over use of E and F chords" was a good one.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/metallica.asp

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Snakeeye

How did Bonsai Kitten not make that list? There are still papers (Winnipeg Sun) writing about how bad it is as late as last year.

Yeah, that was well done. I think there is still a large portion of people who believe that Bonsai Kittens exist.

[Devils'Advocate]

I'm partial to Colbert's elephant prank...
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Elephant_(Wikipedia_article)

[RedHot25]

I live in a cave. What was the Bonsai Kitten prank?

[ken0042]

This is probably the best link about it:
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/bonsai.asp

Basically the hoax was a sick joke started by somebody that you could buy a kitten that had all of its bones broken and stuffed inside a jar. The kitten would grow and fill up the entire jar.

[Flames_Gimp]

the manbeef hoax didn't make the list..weird

[Antithesis]

That was an awesome article ... I've received about half of those, the other half, not so much. The giant dog and cat were awesome ... would have fooled me, I'm sure ...

[MonsieurFish]

i remember seeing that world trade center one in grade 9. i was so convinced it was real, and that picture scared the sh*t out of me.

[Five-hole]

Aww, no time traveler? John somebody..

I loved that one. It had me going for a while.

[CaramonLS]

Yeah John Titor. I remember that one.

http://www.johntitor.com/

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by CaramonLS

Yeah John Titor. I remember that one.

http://www.johntitor.com/

I knew it was entirely fake when you piece together his description of the future: "However the days of mega-stars playing multiple track studio produced music and lip-synching on a huge stage are pretty much isolated to your time period. Like everything else, music is much less centralized. Music is much more of a personal experience."

Other language along those lines just seems like a utopiaist's grudges about reality. Combine this with his musings on mad cow disease the collapse of the modern industrial complex and I knew then it was completely false.