Have you ever played the game where you get 10 (or more) people in a line
A one paragraph event/story printed, is handed to the first person, the contents are unknown to any in line or the audience.
Then starting with the first person who read it, they whisper what they read to the second, then the second to the third and so on.
The last person in the line to hear the story then gets to tell everybody what they just heard. And then the printed paragraph is read aloud for all to hear.
The results are really astonishing, humorous and entertaining.
Usually there is only a vague resemblance to the correlation.
We all say what we think we heard. Doesn't mean we are wrong intentionally. We are just sometimes.....not correct.
Then consider the event of this thread. Hearsay....interpretation...hearsay of the interpretation and the snow ball rolls merrily along....eh?
btk
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