In <p06240800ca5351a3efa5@[192.168.1.11]>, on 07/25/2011
   at 01:18 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9...@panix.com> said:

>It was the use of the description (and misleading 
>descriptions of the effects and usage) to convince people to sign 
>petitions to ban its use that makes it part of a hoax

Relying on the ignorance of your listeners or readers does not make an
accurate description into a hoax. My opponent has publicly
matriculated and his father was a thespian.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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