On 2/22/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:28:51 -0500, you wrote:
I agree, especially because the article didn't show the image, nor did it provide much in the way of information about Brian *the person* (only
Brian
the meme).
Part of the problem is that it *did* / did not / did / did not / did /did not contain the image, details of the man not the meme, details of the meme spreading after Snopes identified him as a sufferer from a congenital deformity and YTMND put up a page detailing the fact that he is disabled and lives in a nursing home. We had every extreme from those who apparently wanted to perpetuate the YTMND fad to those who didn't want the article at all, and there was no possibility of agreeing on a neutral version, and not much chance of enforcing it even then.
Sit back, calm down and wait to see if he's still remembered in a year's time seems a perfectly reasonable approach for an *encyclopaedia* to take here. But of course I was for not having the article in the first place.
Don't worry, I'm already calm. Whatever my beliefs about Mr. Peppers, I simply don't feel strongly enough to really care about it all that much.