Snopes Your Memes

Fighting Fire with Fire: In the battle for TRUTH on the internet. Here will follow our outrageous arsenal of erroneously attributed quotes. All in an effort to inspire the vetting of the honorable quotation.

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The problem with the publishing industry from its start until who knows when. That’s why it’s called HIStory alas!

It has reported that Mr. Talese was misinterpreted and that the cut out of context tidbits that get posted online are ill equipped to tell a dimensional story.

However Mr. Talese stands in certainty that hardly any women writers of fiction or nonfiction influenced him, and that is not his fault.

~LAD

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Saw the “Write drunk, edit sober.” Meme going around facebook.  As these words aren’t his, or Joyce’s, or Twain’s the flip around of course isn’t his either.

You can like the words -- but they mean more when you find out where they come from or what context they were used in.  ~ LAD

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Another powerful king of industry opened his mouth and released a Pandora’s box of ignorance. Because he’s a powerful king of industry he thinks his honesty is funny and brave and will enlighten the people.  This goes to show that he’s not the first emperor who thought he was sporting a magnificent suit of clothes. I’m not against his right to speak his mind. More power to him. And then even more power to the world who hears his words, and does what is necessary to prove him wrong.

~ L.D. 

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Profile pictures are being rainbow-ticized all across social media. We at SYM wondered what Justice Scalia would look like in a colorful spectrum.  Ah well, it’s not in our power to turn his frown upside down.  And for those who want the full “paper bag” quote here it is: "If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: ‘The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,’ I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie." ~ L.D.

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Kudos and mazel tov to Caitlyn Jenner for this lovely cover and for coming out as the person she was always meant to be. 

-K.K.

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RIP, Anne Meara. You were my favorite character in the movie Fame, and far more than just Ben Stiller’s mother. Per comedian Judy Gold, “She was a Shakespearean actress with a thick Brooklyn accent. She acted on stage, in radio, TV and film. She was a writer and a playwright. She was nominated for four Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, and won a Writer's Guild Award for the telepic "The Other Woman." She taught young performers up until the end. And she loved to laugh.”

-K.K.

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I know he’s innocent until proven guilty, but I can’t but look at Bill-O the Clown and not think some variation on a theme of these words is thrumming through his cerebral sub cortex. -K.K.

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There are some things men just don’t get to decide. That something isn’t too rapey is one of them.  ~ L.D.

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Republican hopeful Carly Fiorina extended her benevolence to over 30,000 HP employees, according to http://carlyfiorina.org. ~K.K.

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Compare asking a Christian to support gay marriage with asking a Jewish person to eat bacon and you’ll get SYMed by one of my favorite queens of all time. :p ~K.K.

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Welcome to SYM’s Presidential Hopefuls series! We begin with an SYM favorite, Bernie Sanders, who possesses the capacity to restore decades of systematic inequality in a single bound!  ~K.K.

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Somebody upstairs is p.o.ed at the New England Pats' mendacity also it seems.

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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!!!

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Someone on the internet decided to put Portuguese self-help author/life coach José Micard Teixeira's words in Meryl Streep's mouth.  It went viral. 

There's no crime, really. 

She may even like those words.

Some people don't care about the honesty of a meme, if they like what it says. 

But we here at Snopes Your Meme say a quote needs to be heard by its rightful speaker. ~ L.D.

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This week Scotland will decide to stay with or to go away from the UK.  The portion of my heritage that comes from Caledonia or Pictland or however you term Scotland is torn. Scotland after all comes from the Latin Scotia and some say the Greek Scotos. If Scotland votes yes on independence will they then return their country's name to the Gaelic?

Will Wales then follow? Then will we have to learn the Welsh word for Wales? Will there be any vowels in it other than 'Y'?

~ L.D.

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Full disclosure: I am no fan of the Kardashians.  I am a big fan of irony, ~ L.D.

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I don't know why Helena Bonham Carter has avoided the Ice Bucket Challenge.  It could very well not be her cup of tea. If so, more power to her, and here's some of Shakespeare to help her smooth out the situation. 

~ L.D.