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Monday, December 10, 2007

POISON PEPSI OH NO


Part of working in the news business is discerning fact from falsehood. You know what makes that really hard these days? Everyone has the internet.

You know, back in the days before you could watch videos of people getting hit in the crotch and steal music and movies from major corporations on Napster, urban legends were a little harder to debunk. Back then, you always wondered if there really was an outside possibility that you could wake up in a tub full of ice and missing a kidney. And somehow, in a 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon way, someone knew someone who knew that Mikey died by overdosing on Pop Rocks and Coke.

The latest crazy craze that has people frothing at the mouth these days is that al-Qaida has poisoned Pepsi. That's right, Pepsi terrorists are hell-bent on poisoning us all by slipping the United States the ultimate mickey.

We get e-mails from people at least once a week for the last couple of months about this. They all claim to know someone who knows someone of Middle Eastern descent who tells them not to drink Pepsi after a certain date in December, because it's poisoned by terrorists.

Maybe it's because I'm internet-savvy. Maybe it's because I'm cynical. Maybe it's because I just would never believe anything this ludicrous. But if you're wondering, I promise you, the next time you go out and get a burger, it's safe to grab a Pepsi to wash it all down. al-Qaida did not poison any carbonated beverages any more than they already are.

Now, I might believe spider eggs ...

|| pary, 11:57 PM

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