[HN Gopher] Faxlore
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Faxlore
Author : benbreen
Score : 61 points
Date : 2022-07-18 21:53 UTC (2 days ago)
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| buildsjets wrote:
| For your consideration: Glendale Police Department report on the
| Satanic Panic. Undated. Good times, hail Baphomet and assorted
| lesser demons.
| https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/149064NCJRS.pdf
| vivegi wrote:
| Hmm.. I think I just realized that I had fallen for the "lights
| out" hoax for the longest time. I heard about it first in an
| email around 1998. I believed it to be true until I read this
| Faxlore wikipedia link today. Wow!
|
| To clarify, just a month after I heard about this, I had a
| confirming event. I was in Detroit at that time and my wife and I
| were staying in a motel. It was just after sundown. We pulled out
| of the motel parking lot into the road. It was less than a minute
| later that I realized I did not have my car headlights turned on
| and I switched them on. Seconds later, a cop who was following us
| stopped us and questioned us if we just pulled out of a parking
| lot. He didn't give me a ticket, just an enquiry and let us off.
| That incident worked as a confirming event for me.
|
| Bunch, Michael: "Technology Aided Spread of Terrifying Hoax", San
| Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 4, 1993 - "Lights Out" gang initiation
| legend spreads by fax and copier.
| ThinkingGuy wrote:
| My very first encounter with a Nigerian Prince scam was in the
| form of a fax received by my college roommate. He was from
| another country and didn't really understand it. I remember just
| telling him it looked suspicious and to ignore it.
|
| Around the same time I also knew a religious family who had the a
| copy of the Proctor & Gamble "Satanism" warning taped to the
| front of their refrigerator (it listed all the P&G brands, so
| they'd know which ones to avoid).
| mbg721 wrote:
| To this day, the P&G corporate HQ in Cincinnati has blank white
| circles on the top, where the supposedly Satanic logo would
| have gone.
| dylan604 wrote:
| Can you point out for me in this picture where these white
| circles are that you just posted as fact?
|
| https://www.google.com/maps/place/1+Procter+%26+Gamble+Plaza.
| ..
| JasonFruit wrote:
| Obviously that picture was altered by Google, which works
| with the P&G Satanists. Search for any health or beauty
| product category on Google and see how long it takes for
| one of the P&G brands to pop up. It's no coincidence.
| dylan604 wrote:
| shhhh, the P&G mafia will soon be knocking on your door
| if you keep informing the public like this. You have been
| warned!
| mbg721 wrote:
| In the center of the short sides of the octagon on each
| tower (taking the top as an octagonal prism), just under
| where the roof slants upward.
| dylan604 wrote:
| https://www.google.com/maps/place/1+Procter+%26+Gamble+Pl
| aza...
|
| That thing?
| mbg721 wrote:
| The link just points me to the map rather than a specific
| photo, but it's in the right place. Here's a picture: htt
| ps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procter_%26_Gamble#/media/Fi
| ...
| ben_w wrote:
| The blue star tattoo legend made it's way around my primary
| school twice while I was there.
| jszymborski wrote:
| Someone tell me there's a section hidden on textfiles.org with
| examples of these.
| jordemort wrote:
| If I wanted to set up a fax number to collect random fax spam,
| how would I attract spammers to the number?
| ttyprintk wrote:
| You would have seen these behind the receptionist in dentists
| offices and public schools:
|
| https://bavatuesdays.com/xeroxlore-folklore-in-the-age-of-me...
|
| By the 2000s, the more-intense pranksters had discovered that
| high-volume printers on college campuses left IPP open.
| googlryas wrote:
| > more-intense pranksters
|
| Never heard weev described that way before...
| ttyprintk wrote:
| "Nothing will red pill white men faster than this," was one
| white guy's reaction to Obama. Back then, might have ended up
| as just a prank. But, that white guy was unfortunately ahead
| of his time.
| 13of40 wrote:
| Disappointed. There's supposed to be a frazzled cartoon cat
| with a cup of black coffee and the words "I've got one nerve
| left and you just stepped on it."
|
| (Come to think of it maybe I'm mixing memes.)
| krallja wrote:
| "I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day.
| Tomorrow doesn't look good either."
| krallja wrote:
| I once faxed "oh god how did this get here i am not good with
| computer"[1] to Cheezburger, Inc.
|
| [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oh-god-how-did-this-get-
| here-...
| koofdoof wrote:
| Anyone know a good collection of faxlore? Id love to see more,
| but examples online seem a little sparse.
| quercusa wrote:
| I'm surprised not to see the IBM mouse balls tech note on the
| list.
| whoosh3 wrote:
| Reminds me of the time I got a box of mouse balls from AT&T,
| the guys got a chuckle out of that.
| cestith wrote:
| Reminds me of tapelooping and blacklooping. Not only urban
| legends were spread by fax. All sorts of scams, baseless legal
| threats, harassment, and more were too.
|
| Since in theory it tied up meaningful resources (time on the
| phone line and potentially paper and ink) some places made
| sending certain things by unsolicited fax illegal. In the US IIRC
| one could be fined and be made to pay restitution and punitive
| damages to to recipient if they could find and name the party to
| the government.
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