August 25, 2010
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PlayIdentify this husband-and-wife couple – who together run a famous website (that has stopped many an email forward in its tracks :p) :
A very roundabout clue below. Pseudobonus points for identifying how the clue links to the question :)
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Answer:
Barbara and David Mikkelson of Snopes.com.
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August 26th, 2010 at 10:37 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282819079 )
Barbara and David Mikkelson.
Snopes.com / Urban Legends Reference Pages
Sigh, if people actually referred to this properly before sending “FW:Fw:Fw:Fw: True story. read this.”
But then, there’s also http://xkcd.com/250/ :)
As the urban legend goes, David used the username snopes on the newsgroup alt.folklore.urban . snopes is a pesky family in william faulkner’s works.
August 26th, 2010 at 10:41 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282819270 )
snopes.com, The Snopes trilogy written by William Faulkner
August 26th, 2010 at 11:02 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282820566 )
David and Barbara Mikkelson started Snopes.com
The Hamlet by William Faulkner is his first installment of the Snopes trilogy.
August 26th, 2010 at 11:38 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282822695 )
Barbara and david Mikkelson. Founder of Snopes.com.
Cover is of The Hamlet whose main family’s surname is snopes.
August 26th, 2010 at 12:19 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282825155 )
Barbara and David Mikkelson manage the site Snopes.com which discusses email forwards, urban legends etc.
William Faulkner wrote the Snopes trilogy.
August 26th, 2010 at 12:22 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282825375 )
From Wikipedia:
David Mikkelson used the username “snopes” (the name of a family of often unpleasant people in the works of William Faulkner) in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban. Barbara Hamel was also a prolific poster. The Mikkelsons created the Snopes site in 1995.
August 26th, 2010 at 1:32 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282829527 )
Creators of snopes.com, the myth busting website
William Faulkner wrote a series of novels named Snopes trilogy
August 26th, 2010 at 1:45 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282830359 )
Snopes.com.
Snopes is run by Barbara and David Mikkelson, a California couple who met on the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup…
…David Mikkelson used the username “snopes” (the name of a family of often unpleasant people in the works of William Faulkner) in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban.
Barbara (nee) Hamel was also a prolific poster. The Mikkelsons created the Snopes site in 1995, and later worked on the site full time.
August 26th, 2010 at 3:26 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282836404 )
Barbara and David Mikkelson, the people behind Snopes.com. The site is named for a recurring family name in the works of William Faulkner.
August 26th, 2010 at 3:33 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282836823 )
Barbara & David Mikkelson of Snopes.com. The name was taken from the name of a family from Faulkner’s novels.
August 26th, 2010 at 4:09 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282838958 )
snopes.com started by David and Barbara Mikkelson.
William Faulkner -> snopes trilogy.
August 26th, 2010 at 4:16 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282839380 )
Snopes.com
David and Barbara Mikkelson
August 26th, 2010 at 4:24 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282839859 )
david & barbara mikkelson–snopes.com(snopes is the name of a family of often unpleasant people in the works of william faulkner)
August 26th, 2010 at 5:45 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282844749 )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com
August 26th, 2010 at 5:46 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282844769 )
David and Barbara Mikkelson, who run snopes.com
William faulkner’s three novels, The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion are known collectively as the Snopes Trilogy,
August 26th, 2010 at 8:40 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282855235 )
Myth debunkers David and Barbara Mikkelson. Snopes.com
A famous website.
2nd Image .
The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy.It tells of the advent and the rise of the “Snopes” family in Frenchman’s Bend .
Connect .
The Mikkelsons may be Internet pioneers, but David and Barbara use plenty of old-fashioned tools in their work — like books. Lots of them. Books on word etymologies, history and urban legends, stacked two-deep in the couple’s library .
August 26th, 2010 at 8:53 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282855989 )
Barbara and David Mikkelson of the snopes.com
The roundabout clue is about William Faulkner’s The Snopes Trilogy …. the name of a family of nosy and often unpleasant people
August 26th, 2010 at 8:58 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282856293 )
David and Barbara Mikkelson – the husband-and-wife duo behind the myth-busting Web site “Snopes.com”
The clue : “Snopes” has been adapted from “the name of a family of often unpleasent people in the works of William faulkner”, esp. in the triology “The Hamlet” (pic1-coverpage), “The Town”, “The Mansion”.
August 26th, 2010 at 9:20 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282857649 )
David and Barbara Mikkelson , creators of Snopes.com, which discusses urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of uncertain or questionable origin.
Clue:- ‘snopes’ is inspired from the works of William Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy
August 26th, 2010 at 9:42 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282858968 )
husband-and-wife myth debunkers David and Barbara Mikkelson of Snopes.com
Clue : The Hamlet
(The first book in the Snopes series)by William Faulkner
August 26th, 2010 at 9:47 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282859230 )
David and Barbara Mikkelson of Snopes.com
The Hamlet is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1940, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi.
August 26th, 2010 at 10:02 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282860155 )
Barbara and David Mikkelson.
They named snopes.com after William Faulkner’s Snopes family.
August 26th, 2010 at 10:24 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282861447 )
David and Barbara Mikkelson of Snopes.com.
Snopes is an unpleasant family in Faulkner’s book
August 26th, 2010 at 11:12 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282864367 )
The couple in the picture are Barbara and David P. Mikkelson, founders of Snopes.com
Link- Snopes is the name of a family of unpleasant people in the works of William Faulkner.
August 27th, 2010 at 12:54 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282870442 )
Barbara and David Mikkelson of Snopes.com
August 27th, 2010 at 3:17 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282879035 )
Barbara and David Mikkelson (snopes.com)
The Snopes trilogy is a series of three novels written by William Faulkner regarding the Snopes family in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes_trilogy)
August 27th, 2010 at 3:44 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282880696 )
Barbara and David Mikkelson
August 27th, 2010 at 4:02 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282881732 )
Snopes.com
David Mikkelson (the founder) used the username “snopes” (the name of a family of often unpleasant people in the works of William Faulkner)in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban
August 27th, 2010 at 4:04 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282881840 )
Snopes.com,officially the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a web site discussing urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of uncertain or questionable originrun by Barbara and David Mikkelson,a California couple who met on the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup.
The Hamlet is the first of the “Snopes” trilogy,by the American author William Faulkner.
August 27th, 2010 at 5:02 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282885332 )
David and Barbara Mikkelson are the husband-and-wife duo behind the myth-busting Web site Snopes.com
August 27th, 2010 at 5:10 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282885818 )
David and Barbara Mikkelson – creators of ‘snopes.com’
The clue is the cover page of Willaim Faulkner’s Hamlet which is the first of the “Snopes” trilogy.It follows the exploits of the Snopes family and hence the connection :)
August 27th, 2010 at 10:39 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282905580 )
Barbara and David Mikkelson of snopes.com
Faulkner book = The Hamlet, like a couple of others is about a family called Snopes
August 28th, 2010 at 8:43 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282984987 )
David and Barbara Mikkelson. They run the myth-busting web site Snopes.com.