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my only problem is whether or not to tell my children at school that the pictures that I showed them of the tsunami were false.
Shouldn't be a problem if you're trying to teach them critical reasoning. Just point out how embarrassed you were to find out you'd been taken in, too.
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Sorry for the duplicate. Don't worry about it; we do that all the time.
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Definitely tell your kids about the error. It's a great lesson in checking sources and falling prey, especially to the power of the internet pit viper.
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As opposed to the snake that slithers across the front of your car: the vindshield viper.
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It was a windy and stormy day, a day not fit for man or beast. The house was old and weather worn and in sore need of painting. The windows were dirty and streaked by the weather. The old woman who lived there was in poor health, and she could no longer go up or down stairs. Consequently, neither the upper or lower floors were in use. She lived (or rather existed) on the first floor. She had an elder lady who helped her to cook and clean, but she was in rather poor help herself.
But on the day in question, her help was away on some errand when the telephone, and on the line, a gravelly voice with a strange accent said: "I am de Viper. I am coming." The old lady was terrified! She fell back into her chair, but just then, the light all went out, plunging the house into darkness. There were flashes of lightning and claps of thunder all around. She found some candles to light up the house a little but then the phone rang again.
"I am de Viper. I be der soon." The connection terminated. The old lady was scared out of her wits! She tried to call 911 but the phone remained silent . She fearfully retreated to a back corner of the house, fearing the worst.
Much too soon, there was a banging on the door. The old lady cowered in her corner, too frightened to even move. Then the banging stopped, but only for a short time. Then it started up again, and then nothing. The old lady was too frightened to even scream. Then, just as suddenly, the door burst open and a tiny old man with a familiar gravelly voice entered the house saying: "I am de Viper und I come to vash and vipe de vindows."
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that looks more like Mr. Yuk to me.
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Father Steve,
I heard your story once told by a children's entertainer--and I cannot remember his name. He told the story as though it was one of his. Do you by any chance remember your source? The little kids at the elementary school loved his stories, but I don't know for sure whether this was his or someone else's material. Thanks!
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MELT, just for the record here, I wanted to make sure any readers didn't confuse the links I posted in the thread starter with the ones in Snopes. The ones I posted above are to my knolwedge authentic reports and the ones to which you refer are the ones mentioned on the other tsunami thread on this forum. However, if Snopes has included the links I provided, too, then please do set me straight. Thanks.
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There is no source of which I am aware.
I first encountered this story when I was a small boy attending a Lutheran summer camp. We did it as a skit. The members of the cabin group would line up by height. The tallest would run "on stage" (e.g. at a campfire) and shout "The Viper is coming in ten minutes." This would continue, in descending order of height and with progressively shorter periods within which the Viper was expected to appear. Finally, at the end, the shortest kid in the cabin would come "on stage" carrying a bucket and a squeegie and announce, in his best mock Dutch accent, "I am der viper; Aye come to vipe der vinders." It was then obligatory to laugh, as if one hadn't seen the skit the year before (and the year before that). Come to think of it, it may have been written by Martin Luther.
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