gee, i'm really enjoying...

[acroyear]

everybody passing around that 2006 recap of the Joshua Bell metro thing on facebook, as if it was just about "beauty" and not an insult to real street performers.  There was a lot more to that story than just people ignoring great music 'cause they were in a hurry...

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[ginger-rose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've noticed that too. I was wondering why it popped up again.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

"stop forwarding that crap to me." - Weird Al.

translation: there's always somebody that hasn't seen it yet, and so passes it on.

The real annoying ones are where "phone tag" gets involved when someone decides to take the same sentimental statement from an image, but make a new image on it, so it goes around yet again even through the same people who posted the original the first time. And THEN someone goes and changes the attribution.

Lots of quotes go around attributed to George Carlin that aren't. but what was more annoying was that a proper George Carlin quote ("everybody who drives slower than you is an idiot; everybody who drives faster is a maniac") ended up going around as an image attributed to Ellen Degeneres.