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	Teaching Faulkner, Southeast Missouri State University
		The story’s shabby grocery store/courthouses are the peculiar sites of Snopes’ conflicts with the law, his employers, and his son, their shabbiness and smell of cheese casting a bit of doubt on the abstract justice they supposedly dispense, especially when Sarty later compares de Spain’s mansion with a courthouse.
		The vast gulf between the de Spain and Snopes family is shown by the differences in their houses and possessions, the contrast between their horses, and the fact that de Spain has servants, and even they have better clothing and ride better horses than Snopes.
		Abner Snopes incorporates the frightening power of criminals who are not afraid of the consequences of their deeds, the difficulty of courts to prove guilt and determine or enforce fair punishments, and finally the unfairness and poverty that can motivate resentment and crime and are disturbing in themselves.
	www.semo.edu /cfs/teaching/index_4835.htm (2134 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although he has not been seen on the net for several months, snopes, or David Mikkelson, as he prefers not to be known, has endowed AFU with much of its present character, and has significantly shaped the distinctive form of the newsgroup.
		The snopes that once cocked a snoot at the conventions of society is getting along very well with his charming and articulate girlfriend.
		snopes is very happy with his new-found and meaningful life, and could not help contrasting it with his former pitiful usenet existence.
	www.vic.com /~dbd/minifaqs/snopes.faq (578 words)

	WFotW ~ Faulkner Glossary: "S"
		Snopes, Flem: (?-1946) Son of Ab Snopes, and a monumental figure in Faulkner's fiction of "Snopesism." He and his family first came to Yoknapatawpha County and became tenants farming for Major de Spain about thirty years after the Civil War, according to "Barn Burning" (though he is not named in the story).
		When he was able to get Linda Snopes (his wife Eula's illegitimate daughter) to sign over her shares of bank stock to him, he set his sights on seeking revenge because of his wife's eighteen-year affair with Manfred de Spain.
		Snopes, I. A first cousin of Flem Snopes and bigamist, who in The Hamlet became flsmith and later succeeded Labove as schoolteacher in Frenchman's Bend.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/glossarys.html (4614 words)

	Amazon.com: Snopes : The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion (Modern Library): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Snopes is an inviting, lyrical novel, one that accomodates the reader as a citizen of Jefferson and privileges that new citizen with as much gossip as any other.
		Snopes is also a treatment on money, developing more at times a sense of the value of money from the point of view of those with precious little of it than just those with a good deal more of it.
		Snopes and co. are the people who live in Faulkner's world of the Deep South which is a prallel universe to the one we live in...
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679600922?v=glance (1893 words)

	Online Rumor Mill Spins Its Own Myth(Snopes.com's leftwing bias undercuts its credibility)
		Snopes, which features the status of about 100 war-related rumors, did help to quell baseless stories about Arab-Americans cheering the attacks at a Dunkin' Donuts and the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad being involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.
		Snopes also classifies as false the claim that "monies given to the September 11 Fund are being used to defend suspected terrorists." That is not actually what critics of the fund, such as the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), have said.
		Snopes calls the NLPC's objections "foolheaded," and cites the legal-aid society's statement in a press release that none of the grant money was used to defend terrorist suspects.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/968235/posts (3340 words)

	Random Observations: On Urban Legends, Snopes is Slanted
		And, perhaps more amazingly, the debate at Snopes has been closed since February 2004, even while it rages in the media today, with Kerry's apologists losing ground and conceding points, and the accounts of all three of the liberal authors they rely upon being called into question for veracity and clear conflicts of interest.
		Clearly, Snopes either don't have time to update the status of this legend -- thought it is currently the hotest debate running -- or they exist in some alternate reality where the matter is still firmly resolved in Kerry's favor.
		The only way Snopes addresses it, at all, is as a small part of the "George Bush Resume" e-mail.
	tim.2wgroup.com /blog/archives/000597.html (1192 words)

	Jaboobie and Two Hard Boiled Eggs » Blog Archive » I hate SNOPES. I hate www.snopes.com
		But there are people out there who takes www.snopes.com as the word of God and, as a result, www.snopes.com should stick to articles in which they have the facts either way.
		To make a bold statement in exaggerated SNOPES style, I believe that the group and the people at http://www.snopes.com are part of an underground communist subversive syndicate whose lone mission is to re-write American culture.
		SNOPES looks to reduce the meaning behind that binding to wretched claptrap that only simple dolts would believe and broadcast.
	www.jaboobie.com /cgi/wp?p=452 (357 words)

	Study Guide to William Faulkner's "Barn Burning"
		Snopes charges that his landlord's imposition is unfair.
		We are clearly meant to sympathize with what Sarty is undergoing and with the decision he makes at the end, and this decision is not only counter to his father's will, but seems to result in the latter's death.
		Snopes' motivation is left entirely unexplained, mysterious, unaccountable, bizarre - at least on the explicit plain.
	www.k-state.edu /english/baker/english320/sg-Faulkner-BB.htm (1324 words)

	snopes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Snopes website is dedicated to debunking myths, disproving urban legends and exposing other silly hoaxes.
		Their credibility is helped by the fact that they present everything: if a website claims that Nostradamus foretold 9-11, Snopes will have the actual “quatrain” in question, historical facts, commentary on the vagueness of predictions, links to more information, a bibliography and so on.
		Snopes is a good reminder that even the most commonly held beliefs may ultimately prove to be untrue when held up for examination.
	home.earthlink.net /~jfujita/snopes.html (639 words)

	Comment on Snopes: Reliably Liberal and Liberally Unreliable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Snopes is good for email stories about kids with cancer selling used stamps or rocket powered cars, but useless for politics.
		Perhaps it's erroneous for Snopes to label claims as "True" or "False" in certain cases, but it's certainly demonstrated a talent for proving claims to be not nearly as truthful as they purport to be.
		The "isolated cases" that Snopes cites are not cases where it is claimed that German women would lose their benefits over refusing to work in a brothel, but merely cases where agencies had advertised such jobs on behalf of brothels.
	blog.mu.nu /cgi/splorp.cgi?entry_id=67591 (2865 words)

	Insane Troll Logic: Arrogant Bias on Snopes Site
		I am naturally suspicious any mass e-mailings, so I checked Snopes, a website detailing urban legends and investigating (as much as such things can be investigated) their veracity.
		If Snopes doesn't think the media is heavily biased against gun ownership rights and against the NRA, then they've proven to be as gullible as those who think Microsoft or a Nigerian businessman is going to be sending them money real soon.
		It seems like a snopes is trying to minimize a story for political reasons, which should be left to the anti-gun groups and others.
	insanetroll.blogspot.com /2005/04/arrogant-bias-on-snopes-site.html (1911 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Snopes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Snopes is run by Barbara and David Mikkelson, a couple from California who met on the newsgroup alt.folklore.urban and married.
		They research their topics heavily and provide references, however they are not a fully verifiable source.
		The name snopes comes from the name of a family in the works of writer William Faulkner.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Snopes (455 words)

	Faulkner’s use of the character Abner Snopes in “Barn Burning” to illustrate “blaming the world for one’s ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Snopes’ does not use fire to kill because he still has to participate in society, and in his mind he is always the victim, not a criminal: barn burning is justice in his mind, and Snopes’ still sees himself as a man forced to function in a corrupt world.
		Though Snopes feels no remorse in what he does, society will eventually not stand for his blame game as justification for his barn burnings.
		Abner Snopes’ son, Sarty, is a firsthand witness to the next barn burning and is put in the role of societal judge.
	www.newclassroom.com /Faulkner.htm (950 words)

	Done with snopes \| A Whole Lotta Nothing
		That's pretty awful thing to do to users -- forcing them to look at annoying flashing ads that jump out when their browser is set to avoid them and then not to let them leave.
		I was done with Snopes long ago because of their attitude with Urban Legends, such as saying that everyone that said anything other than what they said was crazy.
		It's wrong of Snopes to say that people who don't believe we landed on the moon are crazy.
	a.wholelottanothing.org /2005/06/done_with_snope.html (616 words)

	This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow: August 31, 2003 - September 06, 2003 Archives
		Friday update--Shorter Snopes, for those of you who don’t feel like scrolling through the unwieldy mess below: here’s the original version of their page on the bin Laden-family-flight thing; here’s the current version.
		Update: Snopes stands by their initial debunking, because--if I'm getting this right--while bin Laden family members were quickly scooped up by the FBI, and flown around in the U.S. during the air lockdown, they didn't actually leave the country until the restrictions were lifted.
		I'd say neither Michael nor Snopes got the story 100% right, but Michael was a hell of a lot closer in his cynicism than Snopes was in their faux-objectivity.
	www.thismodernworld.com /weblog/mtarchives/week_2003_08_31.html (3295 words)

	Secure Liberty - Snopes Botches German Brothel Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Well, via Ace, it seems that Snopes is debunking the story.
		We were initially skeptical about the literal truth of the version reported in the English press, however, because the issue seemed to have received scant attention in the German press.
		As Ace notes, this isn't the first time Snopes has reached a conclusion that isn't supported by the facts.
	secureliberty.org /index.php/2005/02/15/snopes_botches_german_brothel_story (681 words)

	Insight on the News: From Flem Snopes to Bill Clinton somehow we've been here before - President Bill Clinton compared ...
		It is not loyalty that motivates their vigorous and vicious defense of the president -- to a Snopes, loyalty is a weakness to be abhorred.
		Clinton's triangulation strategy was lifted from Clarence Egglestone Snopes, in his early 40s, fighting a weight problem and said to have the principles of a wolverine, who with infallible instinct became a Ku Klux Klan grand dragon.
		It was another Snopes lesson plan for Clinton: Take your opponent's proposal, launder it with a negative spin and then get the Snopes apparatus to circulate the new gospel.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n33_v14/ai_21239828 (995 words)

	The Firearms Forum.Com - snopes??
		This was what some people were waiting for, in order to jump up and scream that snopes was "wrong" about something.
		And yeah, snopes made the mistake of getting their information from an unreliable source: government.
		snopes is only as accurate as their source and sometimes i do wonder about their sources.
	www.thefirearmsforum.com /showthread.php?t=25163&goto=newpost (321 words)

	Response to snopes pentagon "rumor" urban legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Snopes is using the FIRST web site that didn't go with the official story.
		Snopes admitted that the plane hit the second floor, so the tail would have hit at least the third.
		There is also NO damage on top of the hole where the tail would have hit.
	911review.org /Wiki/snopespentagonrumor.html (1706 words)

	Catherine Seipp on Snopes.com on National Review Online
		Snopes began as a purely urban-legends site in 1995, run out of the couple's home in the Los Angeles suburbs.
		My favorite Snopes sections chide professional news organizations for reporting urban legends as fact.
		According to the "Kid-Stuffed" page on Snopes, which updates many stories collected by Brunvand, various versions of this gruesome little tale have been reported over the years.
	www.nationalreview.com /seipp/seipp200407210830.asp (1370 words)

	Slashdot \| snopes.com's David Mikkelson Interviewed
		For starters Snopes show you what references they've used when hunting down the facts (makes it possible to check that Snopes are at least reporting the facts correctly, even if you don't like their conclusions).
		Snopes don't force their opinions down your throat, they simply present their findings and leave it up to you.
		Why not try and actually read the Snopes entry: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.htm [snopes.com] What they say is that the claim that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet is false, and they explain why, by showing the original quote.
	slashdot.org /articles/03/08/03/0116258.shtml?tid=126&tid=149&tid=95&tid=99 (5475 words)

	foldedspace.org: Snopes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Recently I've been falling asleep to the joys of Snopes, the urban legend web site.
		Snopes is there to prove me right in this case.
		Snopes has scores (hundreds?) of myths to explore, most of them false.
	www.foldedspace.org /archives/002379.html (772 words)

	Question on Snopes - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum
		For those of you who don't know it, Snopes (www.snopes.com) is a web-site which debunks Urban Myths.
		The main Snopes site is better, although many recent entries have indicated that there might be some kind of agenda (political?) there.
		A reference to the Snopes BB is a coup de théatre, signifying nothing.
	www.bautforum.com /showthread.php?p=314912#post314912 (2084 words)

	Vodkapundit - Fact-Checking Snopes' Ass
		Despite what you read in Snopes, that's the kind of military John Kerry wanted the United States to have the last time we were facing an enemy dedicated to destroying and/or enslaving us.
		Snopes always seemed to be slightly tilted to the left, but balanced enough.
		I agree it damages the Snopes' pieces credibility, but I think it's still unfair to claim Kerry voted against every major defense program because he voted against 3 defense budgets.
	vodkapundit.com /archives/006566.php (6589 words)

	Technorati Tag: snopes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Yanno, when people send me those forewarded e-mails about who's doing this, and what's happening to that, I always check them out on snopes.
		So Brown's been fired from his position of lead disaster relief, and they're sending...
		As today is Friday the 13th, a day of infamy and intrigue, I thought I’d share this anectdote.
	technorati.com /tag/snopes (505 words)

	Hacking NetFlix : Netflix Settlement on Snopes
		Snopes is a great place to research urban legends and rumors (or to send the people that stil believe that Bill Gates will send you money for forwarding an e-mail).
		When Netflix started sending the e-mails out, several people wrote to ask if this was a hoax so it makes sense that they would add it.
		Interesting that I opted in for this, and all of a sudden movies take an extra day to be sent...
	www.hackingnetflix.com /2005/11/netflix_settlem_1.html (334 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Why I love... Snopes.com
		As soon as a new rumour starts doing the rounds, Snopes' researchers spring into action, verifying sources, digging for clues and awarding each story an appropriate coloured traffic light: red for definitely false, green for definitely true and amber for somewhere in between.
		Each verdict is supported with a detailed explanation of how it was arrived at, along with links to additional evidence from around the web.
		But this proof of lies is not the reason I love Snopes; the real pleasure of the site comes from finding stories that appear sexed up but actually turn out to be true.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,1020713,00.html (230 words)

	SNOPES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Is it an American company headquartered in Emeryville, California, which last year purchased British vaccine maker Powderject and a flu vaccine plant in Liverpool, England.
		Several other sources indicate the Snopes authors are correct, the Chiron is not not British company, but an American which manufactures it flu vaccine in England.
		Again, this relates to the internet message only in the minds of the Snopes authors.] the VICP should be maintained and strengthened as supported by scientific evidence, including continuing expansion of VICP to include additional vaccines as they are recommended for routine administration to children.
	www.pcpcity.us /snopes-flu-archive.htm (2485 words)

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