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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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.
The Hamlet by William Faulkner is his first installment of the Snopes trilogy.
Cover is of The Hamlet whose main family’s surname is snopes.
William Faulkner wrote the Snopes trilogy.
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.
William Faulkner wrote a series of novels named Snopes trilogy
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.
William Faulkner -> snopes trilogy.
David and Barbara Mikkelson
William faulkner’s three novels, The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion are known collectively as the Snopes Trilogy,
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 .
The roundabout clue is about William Faulkner’s The Snopes Trilogy …. the name of a family of nosy and often unpleasant people
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”.
Clue:- ‘snopes’ is inspired from the works of William Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy
Clue : The Hamlet
(The first book in the Snopes series)by William Faulkner
The Hamlet is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1940, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi.
They named snopes.com after William Faulkner’s Snopes family.
Snopes is an unpleasant family in Faulkner’s book
Link- Snopes is the name of a family of unpleasant people in the works of William Faulkner.
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)
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
The Hamlet is the first of the “Snopes” trilogy,by the American author William Faulkner.
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 :)
Faulkner book = The Hamlet, like a couple of others is about a family called Snopes